Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika)
by Ramchandra Keshav Bhagwat | 1954 | 284,137 words | ISBN-10: 8185208123 | ISBN-13: 9788185208121
This is verse 13.33 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 33 of the chapter called Kshetra and Kshetrajna Yoga.
Verse 13.33
Verse 13.33: “Just as the one Sun illumines this entire world, so does the field-knower illumine the entire Field, O Scion of Bharata. (1123)
Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:
Iron is set into motion by the contact of a magnet, yet iron is not magnet. Similar is the relationship between the body and the soul. The domestic duties are all performed (in the house) with the help of the light shed by the lamp (flame), yet there is an immeasurable difference between the lamp and the house. Although fire dwells in a latent form in the wood, Oh Kiriti, yet the wood is not fire, and the soul should be viwed [viewed?] from this standpoint. The same difference that exists between the sky and the clouds, or between the sun and the mirage, does exist (between the body and the soul) as can be be perceived. (In short) just as the Sun in the sky illuminates different spheres in the universe so does the Field-knower illumine the entire (seeming) field, and raise no further doubt about it.