Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika)
by Ramchandra Keshav Bhagwat | 1954 | 284,137 words | ISBN-10: 8185208123 | ISBN-13: 9788185208121
This is verse 4.23 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 23 of the chapter called Brahma-yajna.
Verse 4.23
Verse 4.23: “When one, freed from attachment, and with the mind firmly centred in knowledge, has won deliverance, (then) all the action, undertaken as and for a ‘sacrifice,’ entirely melts away. (115)
Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:
Although embodied in a human figure, he lives only as pure spirit. The tests of pure Brahman show him to be pure and spotless. Even so any sacrifices, and similar actions, religious ceremonials which he does in a playful way meet their final end by merging in his own pure soul. Just as clouds arising in the sky out of season, evaporate of themselves without any downpour; in the same way the prescribed religious sacrifices and other duties performed by him lose themselves in his absolute unitary spirit.