Verse 18.58

Verse 18.58: “With thy mind fixed in Me, thou wilt, through My grace, cross all obstacles; but in case, through (false) notion of self, thou dost not give heed unto Me, then shalt thou perish. (1269)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

When I am thus stuffed in your mind through whole-hearted devotion, know it, you have gained my favour in its entirety. Then you will feel as being happiness-giving although they actually be pain-giving, all those very homes of miseries that make you undergo the dreadful births and deaths. When the vision gets the support of the light of the Sun what could darkness do there? In that way, one whose lifeparticle (-living state) is leavened through my grace, what fear is there for him to get affected by the goblin in the form of worldly affairs? Therefore, O Dhananjaya, you will be able through my grace to get out of the wicked tangle of mundane existence. Now, were you through self-conceit not to allow my talk even to touch the border line of your ears (hearing) or mind, then although your pristine nature be eternally free and imperishable, that will be all unavailing and the dreadful blow of bodily conceit will fall heavily on you and you will hardly have a moment’s relief while suffering from self-destruction at every step as a direct consequence of that bodily conceit. Were you not to give any heed to what I say, then you shall have to face the dreadful calamity of living a life which is worse than death (a living death).