A Jnaneshwar link...

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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