Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika)
by Ramchandra Keshav Bhagwat | 1954 | 284,137 words | ISBN-10: 8185208123 | ISBN-13: 9788185208121
This is verse 13.16 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 16 of the chapter called Kshetra and Kshetrajna Yoga.
Verse 13.16
Verse 13.:16 “Undivided amongst the beings, and withal as though divided, it abides. As the Sustainer of the beings it is to be understood: as (their) devourer and procreator.
Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:
It is not (the thing) that the sweetness of the sea of milk is greater in the deep middle and less near the shore; in that way it is equally perfect everywhere. There is never any stoppage or break in its state of pervasion in all the diverse orders of beings, such as insect class engendered by sweat and others (svedajādīprabhṛtī). Oh you, the leading one amongst the hearers (śrotimukhaṭilaka) the moonshine is all one without distinction even in thousands of earthen pots full of water, or the salt (taste) pervades each and every particle forming heaps of salt, and is of one and the same kind; or there is the same sweet taste in each and every (jointed) part of sugar-can. Likewise, the Supreme Brahman pervades as the One single entity in all beings of diverse orders and is also the root cause of the universe, Oh! Sensible One.
Therefore, it is the support of all the diverse beings with names and forms that get created from it, in the way the sea is (the support) of all the waves (which get created from the sea). It abides uninterruptedly the same (in the beings) throughout the three stages viz. creation, maintenance and destruction (of their lives) in the way the body is the same all through its three stages such as childhood etc. Or in the way the sky does not change with the three stages of the day viz. evening, morning and noon. It (Supreme Brahman) is called Brahmadev [Brahmadeva] when it creates the universe, it is named God Vishnu when it maintains it and it is named Rudra when it destroys it: when all these three Gunas or sta??? disappear, it abides in the zero (śūnya—void). That zero state (void) which remains behind after the triad of the three Gunas ceases to exist-that very zero state (void) is what is propounded in and accepted by the Shruti (Scripture) as the “GREAT ZERO”—(mahāśūnya—Great Void) state.