Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika)
by Ramchandra Keshav Bhagwat | 1954 | 284,137 words | ISBN-10: 8185208123 | ISBN-13: 9788185208121
This is verse 18.40 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 40 of the chapter called Moksha-sannyasa-yoga.
Verse 18.40
Verse 18.40: “There exists not on the earth, nor again in the Heaven amongst the Gods, an entity which can be exempt from these three Guna-constituents that are born of the Prakrti (Primal Matter). (813)
Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:
Therefore, there is not a single thing, either in the heaven or on this earth, that is not fettered by the three Guna-constituents such as Sattva and others, born of the Prakriti (Primal Matter), in the way there cannot be a blanket without wool, or lump of clay without earth, or a ripple without water. Similarly, there is no aspect of the aggregate of beings that could make possible the formation of the universe without the existence in them of the three Guna-constituents. Therefore know it, that this entire universe is all formed (solely and wholly) of the three—Guna-constituents, and it is these three that have classified the Gods in three groups, and have created the three worlds, and have assigned three different functions to the four different castes.