Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika)
by Ramchandra Keshav Bhagwat | 1954 | 284,137 words | ISBN-10: 8185208123 | ISBN-13: 9788185208121
This is verse 2.67 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 67 of the chapter called Samkhya-Yoga.
Verse 2.67
Verse 2.67: “For, that mind which, while the senses are moving (amongst the objects), is prone to follow in their wake: such (mind) sweeps away one’s understanding, as wind a ship on the waters. (348)
Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:
Therefore one, who acts up to the dictates of the senses, although he seems to tide over (the ocean of) mundane existence, does not really do so. Just as a boat getting overturned by the stormy wind, just near the bank, gets again exposed to the fatal risks, which it once escaped from while in mid-river, in that way one, who has already become one with the state of the Self, is afflicted by miseries of mundane existence, once he begins to be indulgent towards the senses even for play or sport.