Verse 10.9

Verse 10.9: “With their mind rivetted on Me—with their life absorbed in Me—enlightening each other (by mutual instruction)—and ever recounting tales of Me: (such men) find (therein) contentment and joy. (119)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

Those that in heart and soul are fully united to Me and have found their highest contentment in Me, have by lure of self-knowledge unlearnt all sense of life and death. And in the sheer ecstasy of self-knowledge, they dance with the joy of converse that gives and takes self-knowledge. When two close-lying lakes are heavily flooded to overflowing into each other, the breakers are joined in mutual embrace: so in the union of souls waking up the self-vision, the surgings of Divine ecstasy are woven into the harmony of the purest joy, whereby the grandeur of self-vision displays itself in the lustrous beauties of self-vision. As if one sun goes out to dance himself into rapturous worship of another sun; or as if one moon holds another in embrace; or again as if two streams of equal might have rushed into each other; in that way, the coming together of such blessed souls reveals a confluence of sacred streams of Divine life, throwing up on its surface dross of the eight-fold bodily flushing and the suffusion of Sattva [Sattva].

Then they (the devotees—men of God-seeing wisdom) become, as it were, the presiding deities, on the high road of dialogue of soul and soul. Overflowing with this Supreme bliss of self-vision and the rapturous transport of being one with Me, they outrun the precincts of their bodily life and shout for joy of having seen God, in a thundrous voice, proclaiming to the whole world the secret and mystic word of truth, which only the master discloses in solitude to the initiated one. As the blooming bud of a lotus unable to hold its sweet smell in itself, wafts it liberally to all, high and low, those devotees extol Me to the world, and extolling, are hushed into eternal silence of soul’s joy, and lose their earthly body and mind in that eternal silence. Utterly oblivious of time’s flow day and night, in the bliss of this overflow of God’s love, they are settled in the enjoyment of everlasting bliss in union with Me.