Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika)

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

This is verse 10.4-5 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 4-5 of the chapter called Vibhuti-yoga.

Verse 10.4:Discrimination, knowledge, (and) undeluded vision; unruffled temper, truthfulness, self-restraint, inward calm; so also, pleasure and pain, elation and depression, fear and fearlessness;

Verse 10.5:Non-injury, equanimity, contentment, austerity, (and) charity, (and the resulting) success (or) failure (therefrom); all these diverse dispositions of beings proceed from Me alone. (82)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

The first and the foremost amongst these is intellect (buddhi). Next come unbounded knowledge (jñāna), unerring vision and truth (asaṃmoha), endurance (sahanaśīlatā), forgiveness (kṣamā), truthfulness (satya), then both inward calm and self-restraint (śamadama), as also, Oh Arjuna, pleasure, pain, birth and death; these too—are among the emanations. Then fear and fearlessness, non-injury, equanimity, contentment, and austerity, Oh Son of Pandu, so also charity, and fame and obloquy—these qualities that show themselves in created things have emanated indeed from no other source than My eternal being. Individual created beings are different; so too are my manifold emanations. (Of these) some take their origin in the knowledge of My divine being; others are rooted in ignorance. Light that bursts at sunrise and darkness that spreads at sunset—both are caused by the sun. So, are knowing Me and not knowing Me the fruit of actions of past births and hence emanations become different in diverse created beings.

In this way the entire universe of living beings is wrought up within My emanations, Oh Son of Pandu. Now then, let me speak of the eleven emanations that are the guardians of creation. By their command the created beings do live and move.

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