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Sri Jnanadev or Jnaneshwar, Poet and Yogi, Jnani and Bhakta, was on this earth for about twenty years, nearly seven hundred years ago. His brief life was a divine event. The Bhagavad Gita embodies the essence of the Vedic Religion within a short compass and in the most popular form. That glorious dialogue between Nara and Narayana, Arjuna and Sri Krishna, is aptly described as Jnanamaya maya Pradipa-the Light of Knowledge. Jnaneshwar Maharaj had, at a very young ...
'The world of words which can talk about us has yet to come into existence' (Amrtanubhava, VIII. 5) thus said Jnanadeva because it is very difficult for words to convey appropriately the experience of the saints when they attain the state of liberation. In that state when the individual merges into the Absolute then 'of what use is the legion of words?' (V. 62). As soon as the words issue forth before their meanings follow in their wake, they disappear like the ...