[ Sculpture at Jnaneshvar samadhi shrine, Alandi ]
Jnaneshvar
(Jnaneshwar, Jnanadev, Jnanadeva)
( Lord of Knowledge )
( 1275 -1296-7 ) ( 1271-1293 )
[ Namdev, Muktabai, Sopan, Nivritti, Jnaneshwar, Krishna,
Rukmini;
Jnaneshwar samadhi shrine, Alandi ]
[ Jnaneshvar ; painting by Balgajbar, Gurudev Siddha
Peeth, Ganeshpuri ]
Jnaneshvar was a great Siddha, mystic and poetic
genius of Maharashtra, India who died at the
age of 21 in enstasy. His spiritual roots were in both the nath and bhakti
traditions and listed his lineage as Shiva, Shakti, Matsyendra, Gorakhnath,
Gahini and Nivritti (his elder brother). At the age of fifteen (1290) he
is said to have delivered ex tempore the nine-thousand verses of his poetic
commentary on the Bhagavad Gita; Jnaneshvari (Jnaneshwari) or “Goddess
of Wisdom” [ also called Bhava-Artha-Dipika (“Light on the meaning
of Being”)].
Jnaneshvar’s teaching was non-dualist, saying that the
mainifest world is a “sport” (vilasa) of the Absolute; the Love of the
singular Reality, and regarded bhakti (devotion), the means to liberation.
from Jnaneshwar’s Gita : A Rendering
of the Jnaneshwari
Swami Kripananda
from Jnaneshvari [Bhavarthadipika]
by Sri Jnanadeva.
Translated by V.G. Pradhan and edited by H.M. Lambert
excerpt from XV. The Yoga of
the Supreme Person (purushottamayoga)
from Swami Muktananda:
Debt to the Guru
links
A visit to Jnaneshvar’s samadhi
site, Alandi, Maharashtra, India
(excerpt from Swami Durgananda’s pilgrimage with Baba
Muktananda in 1978)
The Mystic
Poets of Maharashtra ;
from The Mountain Path;
(at the “Knowledge
of Reality” site)
Jnanadeva
Giri’s biography
Jnanadeva
( Glossary J )
HERE-NOW4UOnline
Magazine
bibliography
The Poet-Saints of Maharashtra
special issue of Darshan magazine
#80 (November, 1993)
SYDA Foundation
Jnaneshvar:
The Life and Works of the Celebrated 13th Century
Indian Mystic-Poet
(Classics of Mystical Literature Series)
Abhayananda, et al / Paperback / Published 1997
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Jnaneshwar: The Guru’s Guru
R.D. Ranade / Paperback / Published 1994
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Jnaneshwar’s Gita: A Rendering of the Jnaneshwari
( excerpt )
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Jnaneshwari, by Jnandeva
Paperback / Published 1980
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Bhavanha-Dipika:
Otherwise Known As Jnaneshwari
Sri Jnanadeva.
Translated by Ramchandra Keshar Bhagwat.
Madras: Samata Books, 1979.
The Philosophy of Jnanadeva:
As Gleaned from the Amrtanubhava
by B. P. Bahirat. Third edition, 1984
Sri Jnanadeva’s Amritanubhava, with Changadeva Pasashti
Translated from Marathi by Ramchandra Keshav Bhagwat
Sri Jnanadeva’s Bhavarta Dipika, otherwise known as
Jnaneshyari
Translated by Ramchandra Keshav Bhagwat
Experience of immortality :
English rendering of Jnaneshwar’s “Amritanubhava”
by Ramesh Balsekar (student of Nisargadatta Maharaj,
of the Nav Nath Sampradaya).
Published by Advaita Press
Gatha :
Garland of divine flowers :
selected devotional lyrics of Saint Jnanesvara
by P.V. Bobde ; published by Motilal.