Exchange between Sri Dnyanadeva and His Teacher

Sant Jnanadeva

 

Nivruttinath says, Oh Dnyanadeva, 

you are purified by Self-realisation.

By understanding the Self, 

you and your devotion have become

one with the Universe. 

The doubts and division 

between you and God 

have disappeared.

Reigning in your mind, 

God has appeared in your heart. 

Now with His omnipresence, 

there is no emptiness.

Nivruttinath says, Oh Dnyanadeva, 

you are purified by Self-realisation.

The brightness of this light of knowledge 

has outshined everything else in this world,

and the flames of desires inside you 

are extinguished.

Nivruttinath says, Oh Dnyanadeva, 

you are purified by Self-realisation.

With the disappearance of these desires, 

the whole world is filled with God’s presence.

Nivruttinath says, Oh Dnyanadeva, 

you are purified by Self-realisation.

Dnyanadeva says, with the ultimate teachings 

of Nivruttinath, 

Dnyanadeva realised complete 

mercy and contentment

Happy Shivaratri

Shiva and Parvati riding on Nandi, Ink and gouache and gold c. 1820 - 40


 A man comes to himself
When he wakes from sleep.
Likewise, I have perceived the God and Goddess
By waking from my ego.

When salt dissolves,
It becomes one with the ocean;
When my ego dissolved,
I became one with Shiva and Shakti.

- Shri Jnaneshwara (Dnyaneshwar, Dnanadeva), 13th century

Changadeva Pasashti

To become one with the Self,

surrender all impulses of the mind.

Then you will know the sleep beyond sleeping, 

the wakefulness beyond waking.

-Shri Jnaneshwara, Chângadeva Pâsashtî

This statue, garlanded with marigolds, depicts the Hindu deity Shri Vishnu with half opened eyes, awakening from, or entering, cosmic sleep. Budhanilkantha Temple, Nepal.

Sant Dynaneshwar

Whether It is the seer or the seen,
It doesn't matter;
There is only the Self
Vibrating everywhere.

From the Amritanubhava by Dnyāneshwar or Jñāneshwar (1275–1296), also known as Jñanadeva

Excerpt from the 1940 Marathi film Sant Dynaneshwar:

Kundalini

Kundalini is the Mother of the world, who illumines the self

and gives shade to the sprouted seed of the universe.
It is the embodiment of the formless Brahman,
the cask of Lord Shiva,
the main spring of the sacred syllable Om.

- Shri Jnaneshwara (Dnyaneshwara. also known as Jñanadeva) (1275-1296), Jnaneshwari (Dnyaneshwari)

William Blake, Beatrice Addressing Dante