Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika)

by Ramchandra Keshav Bhagwat | 1954 | 284,137 words | ISBN-10: 8185208123 | ISBN-13: 9788185208121

This is verse 9.13 of the Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha-Dipika), the English translation of 13th-century Marathi commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita.—The Dnyaneshwari (Jnaneshwari) brings to light the deeper meaning of the Gita which represents the essence of the Vedic Religion. This is verse 13 of the chapter called Raja-vidya and Raja-guhya Yoga.

Verse 9.13:The high-souled ones, O Son of Pritha, partaking in the Divine nature, adore Me, single-minded, knowing Me as the Immutable Source of (all) beings. (188)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

There are those whose pure hearts are the holy places, into which I—the Supreme Ascetic—retire and dwell; on them waits the spirit of renunciation even in sleep: in the realm of their intensely devout faith true religion reigns supreme. Their minds are the fountain springs that water the field of thought. Ablutions in the holy waters of the Ganges of Knowledge have purified them and have raised them to the Brahmic state of perfection. Through them appears the new foliage on the tree of ever lasting peace. Thus they flourish like blossoms protruding, as it were, from the Supreme Brahman, wherein matures the absolute end of Divine Existence. They are like pots dipped in and filled with the water of the ocean of bliss. The ecstasy of the love of God makes them spurn the very treasure of liberation, and out of their mere sport and play is born all goodness and love. Their bodily life is a vestment adorned with the beauties of perfect peace, and their heart becomes, as it were, a wrapper that encases My all-pervading being. Such high-souled ones realizing My divine nature are the very consummation into which My divine love blooms. They worship Me with infinitely growing devotion that is free from all touch of duality. They, Oh Son of Pandu, become one with the essence of divine-life and yet worship Me. There is, however, one more feature about this worship, which do hear.

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