Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika)

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

This is verse 14.2 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 2 of the chapter called Gunatraya-vibhaga-yoga.

Verse 14.2:Betaking themselves to this Knowledge and attaining similarity of essence with Me, they do not become born even at the (Cosmic) Creation, and are not, at the (Cosmic) Dissolution, distressed. (52)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

They become eternal through my eternity Oh Son of Pandu, and get perfect through my perfection. They become as really accomplished with eternal bliss as I am, there remaining no distinction whatsoever between us. They attain the aspect, of the same magnitude and nature as my own, just as the sky visible in the earthen jar gets extinguished in the sky with the breaking of the jar or just as the light of the several other (lamp-) flames, is merged into that of the original lamp-flame when mingled together. In that way, Oh Arjuna, with the extinction of all duality all names and forms are merged into one mass, occupying the same status without any distinction such as ‘I’ or ‘you’. And for this very reason they have not got to subject themselves to the process at the advent of world-creation. Thus (they) being unfettered with the body-form at the creation of the world-how is it possible for them to meet death at the world-dissolution? Those, therefore, that follow this knowledge, Oh Dhananjaya, become one with me, having transcended (the cycle of) births and deaths.”

In this way, the Lord praised with great liking the greatness of knowledge in order to create a taste (predilection) for it in the mind of Partha. At this, he (Partha) got into a wonderful state, as if there were created ears all over his body and he himself got into rapt concentration. (Arjuna) got so much pervaded with the God’s affection for him, that its description could not be contained even in the sky.

God said, “Oh you, the master-talent, my oration has become glorified to-day, since I have secured in you a hearer equal to the discourse itself. I shall now tell you, and you do hear how, even though all single, I have got myself entangled in the body-form through the agency of the hunters in the form of the three Gunas and how, with my union with the Field (Prakriti) the entire universe gets created. It is because the entire crop in the form of the beings is created from the seed in the form of my union with Prakriti, that the latter (prakṛti) is called the ‘Field’.

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