Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika)
by Ramchandra Keshav Bhagwat | 1954 | 284,137 words | ISBN-10: 8185208123 | ISBN-13: 9788185208121
This is verse 11.29 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 29 of the chapter called Vishvarupa-darshana-yoga.
Verse 11.29
Verse 11.29: “As within the blazing fires the moths, with accelerated velocity, enter for destruction, just so, for their destruction, enter the peoples right within Thy mouths, with accelerated velocity. (425)
Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:
Like swarms of moths falling into the blazing valleys of burning mountains, all these men are falling into these mouths, and whatever enters these mouths is wiped out of existence with their very names, like water falling on red-hot iron.