Verse 10.3

Verse 10.:3 “Whoso amongst the mortals knows Me as uncaused and without beginning, and as the Supreme Lord of the worlds; he—delusion-free—is delivered from all sins.

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

So incomprehensible is my absolute divine being, and is yet accessible to that rare seeker, who relinquishing all onward march of worldly life sets himself against all the sensuous enjoyment, or even when engaged in world-activities drops his selfhood and plants himself on the crown of the five elements of all material nature. Elevated to that supra-mundane existence with the pure light of self-knowledge, he sets his eyes on my divine essence beyond birth and death. The one, that thus knows Me as the pivotal Being beyond all change and beginning, as also the Supreme Lord of all worlds is indeed as a Paris, (a rarity) discovered amidst dead mass of living beings; also take My word for it that he is part of the divine essence amongst mortals as nectar is amongst liquids. Such a human being is the very embodiment of pure knowledge living and moving. His bodily life is, as it were, the very blossoming of supreme rapture of happiness; and his being in a human body otherwise is but another name for common delusion. A diamond that flashes out by chance in camphor does not dissolve in water dropped on it; in the same way, living and moving like all earthly mortals, he yet is an utter stranger to all taint of illusion of Prakriti.

As a serpent flees from a burning sandal tree, all sin, for very fear, keeps itself from touching a God-seeing man, and all sensual desires and passions leave him aside. And may not your mind be desirous of knowing the way to secure this all-seeing vision of My true and entire being? As to this, you will now hear about My divine essence and its emanations. These emanations have spread out amidst the created beings in all the three worlds, according to their several natures.