Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika)

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

This is verse 18.10 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 10 of the chapter called Moksha-sannyasa-yoga.

Verse 18.10:He conceives no aversion for an unpleasing action, and is not addicted to one that is pleasing: that relinquisher, who, possessing talent and having his doubts shattered, is imbued with Sattva-temperament. (212)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

Therefore, whatever actions, good or bad, that he has to perform as the result of his past (life’s) actions, get dissolved (before him) in the way clouds get dissolved in the sky. In that way, the actions getting purified by his (serene) vision become incapable of entangling him in pleasure and pain. It never happens that such actions as are auspicious are cheerfully performed by him, while other actions are hated by him because they are inauspicious. In fact he never feels any sort of wavering or doubt in regard to these, in the way, one does not think at all of things seen in a dream after waking up. Therefore that relinquishment that knows of no such duality as the “action done” and the “doer” should be known as Sattvic (Relinquishment), Oh Son of Pandu. Therefore, Oh Partha, actions relinquished in this way, do get really relinquished: if they are relinquished in any other way they become more injurious than their performance would have been.

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