Verse 13.25

Verse 13.25: “The rest, unable to attain such (realisation), learn from others by hearsay, and so proffer worship. They too, steadily pursuing what they had taken on trust, do, all the same, crossover beyond (the ocean of) Death. (1041)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

In such diverse ways, the seekers get safely through the whirlpools in the ocean of mundane existence. But they do so by banishing all conceit and placing all reliance with complete faith, on the advice of some single person. They hear with great reverence and concentrate their minds on the advice coming out from the mouths of such persons who can discriminate between good and evil and are tender-hearted and enquire after and redress miseries and give happiness. They respect the advice with faith, believing it to be their summum bonum and wave their very lives around the very letters of such advice. Such ones (of firm faith), in the end, oh! you ‘having a monkey as your banner on your chariot’! get safe and sound through this ocean of (births and) deaths. There are thus diverse ways of realising the Supreme Brahman. Enough of this. I shall now give you the butter in the form of conclusion (siddhānta) arrived at after churning (manthana—research) all the Scriptures, and that will, Oh Son of Pandu, give you experience and enable you to secure without much effort, the attainment of the Supreme Brahman. And therefore, I now treat that same subject, ripping all (perverse) dissensions and take out from the interior the pure truth (essence).