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Preface
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About AuthorChapter Index1.
Despondency of Arjuna.2.
Sankhya and Yoga3.
Karmayoga4.
Sankhyayoga5.
Renunciation6.
Dhyanayoga7.
Wisdom and Knowledge8.
The Imperishable Brahman9.
The Esoteric Knowledge10.
Divine Manifestations11.
The Universal Form12.
Bhaktiyoga13.
The Field and Knower of the Field14.
The Three Qualities15.
The Supreme Person16.
The Divine and Demoniacal Natures17.
Three Kinds of Faith18.
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Shri Jnaneshwar, the well-known saint of Maharashtra, was not only arealised soul but a gifted poet. At a very early age, he wrote hismasterpiece, the Jnaneshwari, a commentary on the Gita in Marathi inexquisite poetry. He has explained the Gita not by recourse to rationalarguments but by the profuse use of similes, metaphors and illustrations.Initiated into the Natha Sampradaya by his elder brother Nivrittinatha,disciple of Gahininatha, he assimilated, in his later life, the non-dual jnanaof Vedanta and the pure bhakti of the Bhagawata Dharma. In hisJnaneshwari, he calls the Gita the literary image of Lord Krishna. Indeedone can say that his Jnaneshwari is the literary image of his knowledgeand experience.Like Sri Shankaracharya, he was an advaita-vadin, a non-duellist. Heexplains verse IX. 12 of the Gita as follows:"The Lord says, although I am formless, without limiting conditions,inactive, beyond the qualities, changeless and all-pervasive, ignorantpeople ascribe to Me form, limitations, actions, qualities, and a definiteplace. Although I am - unmanifest. desireless and devoid of action andenjoyment, they think of Me as manifest, full of desires, agent and enjoyer.They impute to Me hands and feet, eyes and ears, caste and family,although I do not possess them. Even though I am self-existent, theymake idols of Me and instal them with proper rites of consecration, andthough I am all-pervading, they invite Me with an innovation and bidfarewell to Me with an immersion. They worship an idol as a form ofdivinity and later throw away the broken idol as worthless. They thusimpute to Me human attributes."Sri Jnaneshwar says that true knowledge consists in knowing God in thenon-dual form and that devotion should culminate in Advaita bhakti. Thedevotee should realise God as all-pervasive; and wherever he casts hiseyes, he should see God therein. This shows that Sri Jnaneshwar hadbecome a Jnani-Bhakta of the highest order as described in the Gita(Verse.VII. 17).Although he was born in a village, Alandi, about 20 Kms. from Pune, he isworshipped all over Maharashtra as Mauli (Mother) by a large number ofdevotees. The members of the Warkari Sampradaya have kept the lampof devotion burning in Maharashtra. Shree Jnaneshwar says that every-one should perform his duty as a yajna and offer his or her actions asflowers at the feet of God. This message is as relevant today as seven
Jnaneshwari(Dnyaneshwari or Gyaneshwari)-The Geeta Commentary by Jnaneshwar-English Translation
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- Jnanadeva and Jnaneshwar, were they two?
- Jnaneshwar and Ramakrishna
- Jnaneshwar and Shankaracharya
- Natha Cult
- Kaula and Yoga
- Kaula and the Five Ms
- Gorakshanath and Natha Sampradaya
- Jnaneshwar and the Gita
- Jnaneshwari and Kundaliniyoga
- Devotion to Guru
- Yoga and Knowledge
- The Prince among Jnanis
- Devotional Love
- Jnanadeva and – Namdeva
- Non-dual Devotion
- Jnaneshwar and the Warkari Order
- Acknowledgements
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Chapter Second
- Chapter Seventh
- Chapter Eighth
- Chapter Ninth
- Chapter Tenth
- Chapter Eleventh
- Chapter Twelfth
- Chapter Thirteenth
- Chapter Fourteenth
- Chapter Fifteenth
- Chapter Sixteenth
- Chapter Seventeenth
- Chapter Eighteenth
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