Shri Jnanadeva’s Bhavartha Dipika popularly known as Jnaneshwari tr from Marathi by MR Yardi 5th edn (2011).pdf

BHAVAN’S BOOK UNIVERSITY

Shri Jnanadeva’s

Bhavartha Dipika

popularly known as

Jnaneshwari

Translated from Marathi

by M.R. Yardi

All Rigths Reserved

First Edition

1991

Second Edition

1995

Third Edition

2001

Fourth Edition

2002

Fifth Edition

2011

Price Rs. 600

US $ 30

Published by

Prof. Nandkumar H. Kakirde

Director & Hon. Secretary

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan,

407-408, Shivajinagar, Pune 411 016. (India)

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CONTENTS

Introduction ..................................................................................................................................

Foreward .......................................................................................................................................

Preface ...........................................................................................................................................

Acknowledgements .....................................................................................................................

2 0

Chapter 1 : Despondency of Arjuna ......................................................................................

2 3

Chapter 2 : Sankhya And Yoga ...............................................................................................

3 4

Chapter 3 : Karmayoga .............................................................................................................

5 1

Chapter 4 : Sankhyayoga ..........................................................................................................

6 3

Chapter 5 : Renunciation .........................................................................................................

7 3

Chapter 6 : Dhyanayoga ............................................................................................................

8 1

Chapter 7 : Wisdom And Knowledge ...................................................................................

100

Chapter 8 : The Imperishable Brahman ..............................................................................

109

Chapter 9 : The Esoteric Knowledge ...................................................................................

120

Chapter 10 : The Divine Manifestation ................................................................................

139

Chapter 11 : The Universal Form ..........................................................................................

154

Chapter 12 : Bhaktiyoga...........................................................................................................

183

Chapter 13 : The Field And The Knower Of The Field .................................................

192

Chapter 14 : The Three Qualities .........................................................................................

230

Chapter 15 : The Supreme Person ........................................................................................

245

Chapter 16 : The Divine And Demoniacal Natures ..........................................................

266

Chapter 17 : Three Kinds Of Faith.......................................................................................

283

Chapter 18 : Release ................................................................................................................

299

Appendix 1 : Glossary of Names............................................................................................

363

Appendix 2 : Technical Terms in Jnaneshwari ...................................................................

376

Appendix 3 : Legends referred to in Jnaneshwari ............................................................

386

Appendix 4 : Subject Index .....................................................................................................

397

Descripton of Photographs

Front Cover : View of the Temple Spire at Alandi

Inside Frontispiece and Back Frontispiece : Ghats on the river Indrayani at Alandi

Silver Padukas of Shri Jnaneshwar (Alandi)

Photograph of a drawing of Shri Jnaneshwar

Samadhi of Shri Jnaneshwar (Alandi)

Ashadi Wari passing through Dive Ghat

Collage of Warkari's passing through Pune

Back Cover : Ajan Vriksha (Alandi)

ABOUT AUTHOR

The author was born in a small village in 1916. He had his school education in the Hindu High

school, Karwar and Garud High School, Dhulia and college education in the Ferguson college

and Shri Parshuram Bhau college, Pune. He had the good fortune to study Sanskrit under the

guidance of Shri V. H. Nijsure and Prof. R. N. Dandekar and Mathematics under the guidance of

Prof. D. D. Koshambi, and Prof. D. W. Kerkar. He stood first in Sanskrit in the matriculation

examination (1933) and secured the Jagannath Shankarshet Scholarship. He stood first in the

B. A. and M. A. examination of the then Bombay University and was the chancellor's medalist (in

Mathematics, 1939). He topped the list of successful candidates in the Indian Civil service held at

Delhi in 1940.

He served the erstwhile Bombay and Maharashtra State as Collector of Pune, Development

Commissioner, Bombay and as Finance Secretary in the state of Maharashtra. During his stay at

Nasik, he had the privilege, along with his Friend Dr. C. B. Khadilkar, to read Shankara bhashya

on the Brahma-sutra with his Holiness the late Dr. Kurtakoti, Shankaracharya of Karvira Peeth.

He went to the Government of India in 1962 and worked as programme Advisor, Planning

Commission, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Home and retired as Finance Secretary in 1974.

After retirement he worked in all for ten years as a Trustee and Chief Trustee of Shri Jnaneshwar

Maharaja Sansthan at Alandi and has been working as Chairman, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Pune

Kendra. His three works, “The yoga of Patanjali”, “The Mahabharata, its Genesis and Growth, a

Statistical Study” and “The Bhagavad-Gita as a Synthesis” have been published by the

Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune. His translations of Jnaneshwari in Marathi, Hindi

and English have been published by the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Pune Kendra.

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