Jnaneshwar

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Jnaneshwar

 

If I am concealed by existence of the world,

Then who is it that blossoms in the form of the world?

Can a red jewel be concealed of its own lustre?

Does a chip of gold lose its goldness if turned into an ornament?

Does a lotus lose itself when it blossoms into so many petals?

When a seed of grain is sown & grows into an ear of corn,

Is it destroyed or does it appear in its enhanced glory?

So there is no need to draw away the curtain of the world

In order to see me,

Since I am the whole panorama.

 

Therefore, giving up the conception of difference,

A person should know Me alongside himself.

He should not regard himself as different from Me,

As a speck of gold is not different

>From the whole block of gold.

He should understand how a ray of light,

Through proceeding from an origin,

Is continuous with it.

Like molecules on the surface of the earth,

Or flakes of snow on the Himilaya,

All individual souls dwell in Me.

A ripple small or great,

Is not different from water.

So he should know himself as not different from Me.

Such insight is called Devotion.

This is the supreme knowledge the essence of all Yoga.

 

~*~

I do believe Jnaneshwar is calling us to Love Self - As God.

I believe Frank calls us to do the same when he advises us to be

non-judgemental.

 

Just sharing,

 

Peace,

 

Col

[Guest guest]

Namaste,

 

Here is a fine anthology of articles on advaita, Jnaneshvara,

&c. [esp. Being & Beings, by Balasubramanian]

 

http://www.here-now4u.de/eng/topics.htm

 

Regards,

 

s.

 

 

 

advaitin , colette <colette@b...> wrote:

> As I read about the life of Jnaneshwar I learnt that Meister

Eckhart was another mystic alive

[Guest guest]

I first heard of Jnaneshwar from Harsha, then I stumbled across some of his

poems in a great

anthology. Then I sought him out & managed to get two works by him. One is from

a second hand

book store.

 

I will share some quotes from 'Jnaneshvari: A Song Sermon on the BhagavadGita

Volume II'

translated from the Marathi by V.G. Pradhan.

 

"O winner of wealth, this other person, the Imperishable Self, stands in the

middle, as Mount

Meru is central among mountains ..

 

He is not perceived through right knowledge nor by false knowledge thought to be

dual;

therefore his true nature is found in the absence of knowing ...

 

When the waters of the sea are dried up there remain neither water nor waves, &

this

Imperishable One exists thus in a state which has no form ...

 

He is joy added to joy, the luster in all that is lustrous ..

 

As water & waves are not different from each other, so is he the existence & the

light that

penetrates the world."

 

Hope you enjoyed that :-)

 

Peace now,

 

Col

 

sunder hattangadi wrote:

> Namaste,

>

> Here is a fine anthology of articles on advaita, Jnaneshvara,

> &c. [esp. Being & Beings, by Balasubramanian]

>

> http://www.here-now4u.de/eng/topics.htm

>

> Regards,

>

> s.

[Guest guest]

Namaste,

 

Pradhan's translation was done under the auspices of UNESCO, as

I recall.

 

Jnaneshvara has the honor of being considered the First poet in

Marathi literature [ an honor similarly accorded to Valmiki, author

of Ramayana, as the first poet in Sankrit literature.]

 

His commentary on the Gita [Jnaneshvari or Bhavartha-Dipika],

Ekanath's commentary on Uddhava Gita [11th Book of Bhagavata

Purana],Ramdas's Dasa-bodha,& Namdev-Tukaram's Abhangas [hymns], are

like the Vedas to the Marathi-speaking people.

 

Regards,

 

s.

 

 

 

 

 

advaitin , colette <colette@b...> wrote:

> I first heard of Jnaneshwar from Harsha, then I stumbled across

some of his poems in a great

> anthology.