Verse 18.46

Verse 18.46: “From Whom proceeds the urge to action of all beings—by Whom all this is permeated: having propitiated HIM by his own (respective) activity, a man wins Perfection. (914)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

Therefore, such (service) is not (only) a performance of prescribed duties but is conforming to His wishes,—He from Whom is created this universe of the beings, He Who prepares the dolls in the form of beings from rags in the form of ignorance, and makes them (dolls) dance to the movements (pulling) of the string in the form of egotism, made by twisting together the three Guna-constituents, He Who like a lamp pervades by His own light the entire universe—if he (the seeker) worships such God pervading the hearts of all beings, by dedicating to Him, the flowers in the form of performance of the prescribed duties,—such worship propitiates Him very highly. And when the Supreme Soul gets propitiated with such service, He grants to the devotee (him) doing such service the miraculous gift of asceticism as a token of his favour (prasāda) and when in such an ascetic state he keeps on thinking of nothing else but God (īśvarācenīvedhavaśe), he (the being) feels the entire universe as filthy as the very vomit. Such a devotee feels the aggregate of pleasures as pains, in the way, a virtuous woman with her husband far away, considers her life a burden and torture on account of her intense anxiety for her absent lord. The importance of the knowledge is so great that even before the actual attainment of the knowledge of the Supreme, the very intense longing for it, makes one identify oneself with it. Therefore one who prays and practises vows for liberation should follow very earnestly his own religion (do religious duties).