Guest guest Posted February 15, 2004 Report Share Posted February 15, 2004 Namaste: I decided to take a look around the internet for more on Jnaneshwar. I found this link which has some wonderful images, a short listing of his works and where you can purchase them, and a few excerpts... http://www.dabase.net/jnaneshv.htm The one below makes me think of the Paduka image which Sunderji placed on the home page of the group a while back... It is titled as an excerpt from XV. The Yoga of the Supreme Person (purushottamayoga) and fgound at this link. http://www.dabase.net/jvari2.htm 1. Now on the pedestal of my heart I will place the feet of my Guru, 2. and pouring my senses as flowers into the cupped hands of the experience of union with the Supreme, I make the offering of a handful of these at his feet. 3. My desire, washed clean by the pure water of devotion, will be as sandal-wood ointment. 4. Making anklets of the pure gold of my love for him, I will adorn with them his beautiful feet. 5. My strong, pure and single-hearted devotion to him will be as a pair of rings for his two big toes. 6. I will place on them the bud of pure emotions, with the fragrance of bliss, the full-blown eight-petalled lotus. 7. Then I will burn before him the incense of egotism, wave round him the lamp of union with the Self and embrace him with the experience of oneness with Brahma. 8. I will put on his holy feet the two sandals of my body and my vital breath, and will wave around them the neem leaves of experience and liberation. 9. May I be worthy of the feet of the Guru by which I may attain all the goals of man's existence, 10. by which that clear knowledge will be gained which leads to the resting-place in Brahma and which transform speech into an ocean of nectar. from Jnaneshvari [bhavarthadipika] by Sri Jnanadeva. Translated by V.G. Pradhan and edited by H.M. Lambert Om Namah Shivaya, Joyce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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