Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika)
by Ramchandra Keshav Bhagwat | 1954 | 284,137 words | ISBN-10: 8185208123 | ISBN-13: 9788185208121
This is verse 5.16 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 16 of the chapter called Sannyasa-yoga.
Verse 5.16
Verse 5.16: “But in the case of those by whose (Self) knowledge that ignorance is destroyed: their knowledge, like unto the Sun, lights up that Supreme (Self). (83)
Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:
When this ignorance is completely dissolved then only will the lampsoot (of delusion) and error disappear. Then will dawn the vision by which God is realized as not really the doer of anything. When the soul comes to realise that God is the one being who is non-doer, there follows the eternal truth, “I am that very God”. When this idea sheds its light in the mind, how can there be any idea of separate beings in the universe? In such a state the seer settled in his own experience views the entire world as rooted in the essence of the Self. Does it ever happen, that with the rising of the Sun in the East, there abides plenty of light only in that sphere, other spheres remaining in total darkness as they were-(before Sun-rise)?