Cluster 0331 — BG-9.25 — yat-yad-bhāva-tat-tad-gati

BG-9.25

Sanskrit śloka (BG-9.25): यान्ति देवव्रता देवान्पितृन्यान्ति पितृव्रताः । भूतानि यान्ति भूतेज्या यान्ति मद्याजिनोऽपि माम् ॥२५॥

The deva-worshippers (deva-vratāḥ) go (yānti) to the devas (devān); the pitṛ-worshippers (pitṛ-vratāḥ) go (yānti) to the pitṛs (pitṝn); the bhūta-worshippers (bhūta-ijyāḥ) go (yānti) to the bhūtas (bhūtāni); and MY-worshippers (mad-yājinaḥ api) come (yānti) to ME (mām) ॥25॥.

BG-9.25 is the famous yat-yad-bhāva-tat-tad-gati classification — destination determined by worship-direction. It completes the BG-9.23-25 quasi-Veda-yajña micro-cluster of the rāja-vidyā chapter: BG-9.23 granted that anya-devatā-bhaktas are in fact worshipping Me avidhi-pūrvakam (not by the proper procedure); BG-9.24 declared aham hi sarva-yajñānām bhoktā ca prabhur eva ca (I alone am bhoktā and prabhu of all yajñas — but they do not know Me in truth and therefore fall); BG-9.25 now formalizes the destination-determining-principle. The rhetorical work is done by the four-fold yānti...yānti...yānti...yānti anaphora plus the climactic mad-yājinaḥ api MĀM — where the api (also/even) places MY-worshippers in the same structural position as the other three (all-four are yat-yad-bhāva-tat-tad-gati-instances) while MĀM (pure first-person pronoun rather than a class-name) names the categorically-distinct destination. Jñāneśvar's MASSIVE 27-ovi treatment (9.355-9.381) is one of the most-architecturally-deliberate large clusters in the entire Dnyāneśvarī, deploying a four-part pedagogical-architecture: PART-I (9.355-9.358) renders the three lower destinations with the body-curtain-parting image; PART-II (9.359-9.366) elaborates mad-yājino mām via the EYE-EAR-MIND-SPEECH-BODY-DĀNA-ADHYAYANA pentad culminating in the upacāra-miṣēm didhalēm āpaṇapēm maja self-gift doctrine; PART-III (9.367-9.378) deploys the canonical anti-jñāna-pride excursus with the VEDA + ŚIVA + LAKṢMĪ three surrender-precedents culminating in jaim jagā dhākuṭēm hōīje — taim javaḷīka mājhī (only when smaller-than-jaga, My-closeness); PART-IV (9.379-9.381) closes with the SAHASRA-KIRAṆA → KHADYOTA illustration and the śarīra-sāṇḍōvā + lōṇa-utarṇē + kuravaṇḍī-karṇē aratī-exhortation that prepares BG-9.26's leaf-flower-fruit-water minimal-offering doctrine.

Ovi 9.355

Original (Marathi): मनें वाचा करणीं । जयांचीं भजनें देवांचिया वाहणीं । ते शरीर जातिये क्षणीं । देवचि जाले ॥३५५॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
मनें	by-mind
वाचा	by-speech
करणीं	by-action
जयांचीं	whose
भजनें	worships
देवांचिया	of-the-devas
वाहणीं	in-the-channel (current, direction-of-flow)
ते	they
शरीर	body
जातिये क्षणीं	at-the-moment-of-departing
देवचि	devas-themselves
जाले	became

Literal translation

English: "Those whose worship runs in the channel-of-the-devas — by mind, by speech, by action — at the very moment the body departs, became devas themselves."

मराठी (आधुनिक): "ज्यांची मनाने, वाणीने आणि कृतीने भक्ती देवांच्या वाटेने चालते — ते शरीर सोडण्याच्या क्षणीच देवच होतात."

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
bhajanēm dēvāmchiyā vāhaṇīm — worship in the channel-of-the-devas	The vrata (vow, discipline) is rendered as a vāhaṇī — a channel of flow — that determines the directional-current toward the destination	The pipeline whose endpoint is preset; whatever flows-into-it ends-up-where-the-pipe-leads
śarīra jātiyē kṣaṇī — dēvachi jālē — at the moment the body departs, became devas	The destination is not arrived-at-by-going-elsewhere but BECOMING-WHAT-ONE-IS-CHANNELED-TOWARD; the yānti of BG-9.25 is rendered not merely as going-to but as becoming-the	Becoming one's role-orientation so fully that, at retirement, what departs is the role-as-self

Metaphor-family: vāhaṇī-channel-becoming-the-destination — the destination is a function of the channel, not a separate event.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

Internal: developed-further from 9.354 (the manīm vāhilī jē āsthā tēth ālē doctrine of 0330 closing) → here formalized as deva-vrata destination-by-channel; parallel-image to 9.356 (pitṛ-vrata) and 9.357 (bhūta-vrata).
Tukaram parallel: none defensible.
Source citation: BG-9.25 (direct-paraphrase of clause-1), BG-8.6 (echo — yam yam vāpi smaran bhāvam tyajaty ante kalevaram), Chāndogya Upaniṣad 3.14.1 (echo — yathā-kratuḥ ... pretya bhavati).

Modern application

The lifelong-attention-investor: the person who has placed mind-speech-action in one channel (a profession, a cause, a partner) for decades and discovers, at the moment of leaving that role, that they have become the role — their identity is the channel's destination.
The algorithmic-consumption arc: years of mind-speech-action flowing into a particular content-channel; at the moment of "logging out," the worldview that departs is the channel-shaped one.
The vrata-of-grievance: the person whose mind-speech-action has run in the channel of one resentment; at the moment of confrontation, what speaks is the resentment-self, fully formed.

Sādhanā

For 90 seconds today, identify the single most-trafficked channel of your mind-speech-action over the past year. Ask without judgment: if the body departed today, what destination has this channel been delivering me to? Name it specifically.

Arc

9.355 names the deva-vrata-class with the vāhaṇī-channel-and-becoming structure. 9.356 will deliver the pitṛ-vrata-class in parallel construction, completing the first half of the formal three-class enumeration.

Ovi 9.356

Original (Marathi): अथवा पितरांचीं व्रतें । वाहती जयांचीं चित्तें । जीवित सरलिया तयांतें । पितृत्व वरी ॥३५६॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
अथवा	or
पितरांचीं	of-the-pitṛs
व्रतें	vratas
वाहती	bear, carry
जयांचीं	whose
चित्तें	chittas
जीवित	life
सरलिया	having-ended
तयांतें	by-them
पितृत्व	pitṛhood
वरी	attains

Literal translation

English: "Or — those whose chittas bear the pitṛ-vratas — when life is over, by them is pitṛhood attained."

मराठी (आधुनिक): "अथवा ज्यांचे चित्त पितरांच्या व्रतांना धारण करते — आयुष्य संपताच ते पितरत्व प्राप्त करतात."

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
vāhatī chittēm — chittas bear (the vratas)	The chitta as the vehicle (vahana) of the vrata; the mental-faculty as the directional-vector	The carrier-medium that holds the orientation; the bag whose contents define the trip
jīvita saralīyā ... pitṛtva varī — when life ends, pitṛhood is attained	Not arrival-elsewhere but transformation-into; paralleling 9.355's dēvachi jālē	At career-end, becoming the ancestry one tended — the family-tradition continuing as the practitioner's own posthumous-identity

Metaphor-family: chitta-as-vahana-becoming-the-destination — parallel to 9.355's vāhaṇī.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

Internal: parallel-image to 9.355 (deva-vrata); developed-further to 9.357 (bhūta-vrata with negative-valence).
Tukaram parallel: none defensible.
Source citation: BG-9.25 (direct-paraphrase of clause-2), BG-8.6 (echo), Manu Smṛti 3.122-128 (echo — the śrāddha-pitṛ-loka-prāpti dharma-śāstra prescription).

Modern application

The genealogist-as-vrata: the person who has tended the ancestral records, traveled to ancestral villages, held the family-tradition-fire — at life's end, becomes the ancestor.
The cultural-preservationist whose chitta has borne the parent-generation's repertoire — at life's end, has become the embodied-pitṛ for the next generation.
The family-keeper-of-rituals whose entire mental life has flowed into the year-cycle of ancestral observances — has, by life's end, become the pitṛ the next generation will perform for.

Sādhanā

Ask for two minutes today: what ancestral-thread does my chitta actually bear? If I died this year, who would inherit the orientation my mind-vehicle has been carrying? Name them.

Arc

9.356 closes the pitṛ-vrata clause in parallel-construction with 9.355. 9.357 will deliver the bhūta-vrata-class with the negative-valence (kṣudra + abhicārikī) that completes the three-class enumeration with the satirical register.

Ovi 9.357

Original (Marathi): कां क्षुद्रदेवतादि भूतें । तियेचि जयांचि परमदैवतें । जिहीं अभिचारिकीं तयांतें । उपासिलें ॥३५७॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
कां	or
क्षुद्र	petty, lesser
देवतादि	deities and such
भूतें	bhūtas
तियेचि	those-very
जयांचि	whose
परमदैवतें	supreme-deities
जिहीं	by-whom
अभिचारिकीं	by-abhicāra-rituals (sorcerous-coercive)
तयांतें	them
उपासिलें	worshipped

Literal translation

English: "Or — the petty deities and bhūtas, whose supreme-deities are these very ones — they who worshipped them via abhicārikī rituals (sorcerous-coercive rites)."

मराठी (आधुनिक): "अथवा क्षुद्र देवता आणि भूतें — हीच ज्यांची परम-दैवतें — ज्यांनी अभिचारिक विधींनी त्यांची उपासना केली."

Metaphor-unfold

No extended metaphor in this ovi.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

Internal: parallel-image to 9.355-9.356; developed-further to 9.358 (sankalpa-vaśa collection of all three).
Tukaram parallel: none defensible.
Source citation: BG-9.25 (direct-paraphrase of clause-3), Bhāgavata Purāṇa 10.40.21-22 (echo — vimukta-māninas patanty adhaḥ), Atharva Veda 4.16 (echo — abhicāra-prayoga tradition).

Modern application

The pursuit of micro-status-deities (the gym-influencer, the niche-podcaster) elevated to parama-daivata-status by their consumer; the sankalpa-elevation transforming the petty into the central.
The use of magical-coercive techniques (visualizations promising "the universe will deliver," "manifestation-rituals") to extract specific outcomes — the abhicārikī-mode dressed in contemporary self-help vocabulary.
The harnessing of dark-arts of attention-capture (manipulation-formulas, dark-pattern-design) as the contemporary abhicāra — coercive instruments to bend lesser-agents toward specific ends.

Sādhanā

Name aloud one kṣudra-deity you have elevated to parama-daivata-status this year (a brand, a person, a metric). For sixty seconds, watch what the elevation has cost. Note one specific aspect of your attention-life it has shaped.

Arc

9.357 closes the bhūta-vrata enumeration with negative-valence. 9.358 will deliver the foundational doctrinal-image — the dēhāchī javanikā phiṭalī body-curtain-parting and the sankalpa-vaśēm phaḷalīm karmēm tayām doctrine that collects all three lower-destinations under one principle.

Ovi 9.358

Original (Marathi): तयां देहाची जवनिका फिटली । आणि भूतत्वाची प्राप्ती जाहली । एवं संकल्पवशें फळलीं । कर्में तयां ॥३५८॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
तयां	for-them
देहाची	of-the-body
जवनिका	stage-curtain
फिटली	was-parted
आणि	and
भूतत्वाची	of-bhūta-hood
प्राप्ती	attainment
जाहली	happened
एवं	thus
संकल्पवशें	by-the-power-of-sankalpa
फळलीं	bore-fruit
कर्में	karmas
तयां	for-them

Literal translation

English: "For them the body-curtain was parted, and bhūta-hood was attained. Thus, by the power of sankalpa, their karmas bore fruit."

मराठी (आधुनिक): "त्यांच्या देहरूपी पडदा बाजूला झाला आणि भूतत्व प्राप्त झाले. अशा प्रकारे संकल्पाच्या बळावरच त्यांची कर्में फळ देतात."

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
dēhāchī javanikā phiṭalī — the body-curtain was parted	The body is the stage-curtain that conceals the sankalpa-shaped-destination during life; at death, the curtain is lifted and the destination is revealed-as-already-set	The end-of-quarter financial-disclosure that reveals the investments that were quietly compounding all year
sankalpa-vaśēm phaḷalīm karmēm — by sankalpa-power, the karmas bore fruit	The destination-determining-principle named directly: sankalpa controls karma-phala; the yat-yad-bhāva-tat-tad-gati compressed	The will-of-orientation is the variable that determines what the multitudinous-acts add up to

Metaphor-family: javanikā-curtain-parting — death as the curtain-rising on a destination quietly determined by sankalpa during life.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

Internal: developed-further from 9.355-9.357 (the three classes collected under one principle); developed-further to 9.359 (the structural turn from PART-I to PART-II, lower-classes → mad-yājino-mām elaboration).
Tukaram parallel: none defensible.
Source citation: BG-9.25 (paraphrase of the unified principle), Chāndogya Upaniṣad 3.14.1 (direct-paraphrase — yathā-kratuḥ ... pretya bhavati), BG-8.6 (echo), Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad 4.4.5-6 (echo — the yathā-kāmo bhavati tat-kratur bhavati causation-chain).

Modern application

The end-of-life-disclosure: a person whose family is surprised by what is found in the closet at death — yet the closet contents are precisely what their sankalpa was furnishing for decades. The javanikā phiṭalī moment.
The retirement-revelation: what a person becomes when the work-curtain drops is determined by the sankalpa held during work; the curtain-parting only displays what was already-set.
The conversation-with-a-stranger that reveals you (and them) precisely because the social-curtain dropped for a moment — what was glimpsed was the sankalpa-shape underneath.

Sādhanā

For three minutes, sit with this question: if the javanikā phiṭalī moment happened to me this evening, what bhūtatva-or-other-attainment would be revealed? Not in fear, but in clear-sighted recognition. Write down one sentence naming what you see.

Arc

9.358 closes PART-I with the sankalpa-vaśa doctrinal collection of all three lower-destinations. 9.359 will open PART-II — the mad-yājino mām clause unpacked through the EYE-EAR-MIND-SPEECH faculty-pentad — the first turn of the cluster's structural-architecture.

Ovi 9.359

Original (Marathi): मग मीचि डोळां देखिला । जिहीं कानीं मीचि ऐकिला । मीचि मनीं भविला । वानिला वाचा ॥३५९॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
मग	then
मीचि	Me-alone
डोळां	with-eyes
देखिला	(they) saw
जिहीं	by-whom
कानीं	with-ears
ऐकिला	(they) heard
मनीं	in-mind
भविला	(they) thought, imagined
वानिला	(they) praised, described
वाचा	with-speech

Literal translation

English: "Then — by Me alone they saw with eyes; by whom by ears Me alone they heard; Me alone they thought in mind; they praised (Me) with speech."

मराठी (आधुनिक): "मग ज्यांनी डोळ्यांनी फक्त मलाच पाहिले, कानांनी फक्त मलाच ऐकले, मनात फक्त माझेच चिंतन केले आणि वाणीने माझीच स्तुती केली —"

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
EYE-EAR-MIND-SPEECH four-faculty cascade	Every karaṇa (instrument) of perception, cognition, and expression turned in one direction; bhakti as comprehensive faculty-deployment, not as one-among-many acts	The pianist whose entire sensory-cognitive-expressive apparatus has been re-shaped by the instrument; every faculty has been retrained around one orientation

Metaphor-family: faculty-pentad-deployment — the bhakta as one whose every karaṇa points one direction.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

Internal: developed-further from 9.358 (structural turn from PART-I to PART-II); developed-further to 9.360 (BODY-and-DĀNA-PUṆYA extension of the pentad).
Tukaram parallel: 1777 (5-FACULTY SELF-CURSE-WITHOUT-NĀMA — jivhā jhaḍō / bahira kāna / jāta ḍōḷē / mana cāṇḍāḷa jaḷō / hātapāya gaḷōniyām — gōḍa nāma tujhēm) — the negative-mirror of Jñāneśvar's positive-faculty-pentad; the canonical 13th-c + 17th-c paired-formulations.
Source citation: BG-9.25 (direct-paraphrase of the mad-yājinaḥ clause), BG-10.9 (echo — mac-cittā ... kathayanto mām nityam), Bhāgavata Purāṇa 9.4.18-20 (echo — the Ambarīṣa nine-faculty bhakti structural-source).

Modern application

The artist whose every faculty has been retrained around their medium — eye, ear, hand, mind, speech all flow into the single orientation that the BG-9.25 mad-yājinaḥ describes structurally.
The recovering addict whose recovery is comprehensive precisely because eye-ear-mind-speech-body have been re-channeled together; partial recovery (one faculty changed, the others unchanged) does not hold.
The parent of a newborn whose every faculty is, for a season, deployed toward the child — and who in that season experiences the faculty-pentad-Me-deployment structure (with the child as the deva).

Sādhanā

Choose one faculty (eye OR ear OR speech). For ten minutes today, deploy it toward one direction-of-attention (a single image, sound, or topic-of-speech) without competing inputs. Notice what happens when one karaṇa is given to one direction.

Arc

9.359 opens the mad-yājino mām faculty-pentad with EYE-EAR-MIND-SPEECH. 9.360 will extend to BODY-NAMASKĀRA and DĀNA-PUṆYA-DIRECTION — the pentad becoming sixfold.

Ovi 9.360

Original (Marathi): सर्वांगीं सर्वांठायीं । मीचि नमस्करिला जिहीं । दानपुण्यादिकें जें कांहीं । तें माझियाचि मोहरां ॥३६०॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
सर्वांगीं	with-all-limbs
सर्वांठायीं	in-all-places
मीचि	Me-alone
नमस्करिला	(they) bowed
जिहीं	by-whom
दानपुण्यादिकें	dāna-puṇya and similar
जें कांहीं	whatever
तें	that
माझियाचि	to-Mine-alone
मोहरां	face-direction

Literal translation

English: "By whom with all limbs, in all places, Me alone they bowed to — and whatever dāna-puṇya and the like, that to My face-direction only."

मराठी (आधुनिक): "ज्यांनी सर्वांगाने, सर्व ठिकाणी फक्त मलाच नमस्कार केला; दान-पुण्य जे काही केले, ते माझ्याकडेच वळवले."

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
mājhiyāchi moharām — to My face-direction only	The DIRECTION of the act, not the act itself, is what makes it mad-arpaṇa; the dāna-puṇya is morally-neutral content gaining its destination by the moharā (face, vector)	The same gift becoming a transaction or an offering depending solely on which way the giver was facing inwardly

Metaphor-family: mohrā-face-direction — the vector of the act over its content.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

Internal: developed-further from 9.359 (4-faculty → BODY + DĀNA-PUṆYA extension); developed-further to 9.361 (further extension to ADHYAYANA + INNER-OUTER-FULFILLMENT + LIFE-ITSELF).
Tukaram parallel: none defensible.
Source citation: BG-9.25 (direct-paraphrase), BG-9.27 (foreshadows — kuruṣva mad-arpaṇam), Bhāgavata Purāṇa 9.4.18-20 (echo — Ambarīṣa nine-faculty).

Modern application

Two donations to the same cause: one with the mohrā of professional reputation-building, one with the mohrā of self-offering — same act, two destinations.
Bowing-the-head: same physical gesture toward a colleague, a teacher, an image — destination determined entirely by where the inward mohrā faced at the moment of the bow.
The volunteer who does what looks-identical to the resume-builder doing the same work — the mohrā divides them.

Sādhanā

Today, before one specific act of giving or service (however small — buying a coffee for someone, sending a message of help), pause for ten seconds. Ask: in which mohrā is this oriented? Adjust if you find you can. Then do the act.

Arc

9.360 extends the pentad to BODY-NAMASKĀRA + DĀNA-PUṆYA-DIRECTION. 9.361 will deepen to ADHYAYANA + INNER-OUTER-FULFILLMENT + LIFE-ITSELF-FOR-ME — the bhakti extending into the foundational direction of existence itself.

Ovi 9.361

Original (Marathi): जिहीं मातेंचि अध्ययन केलें । जे आंतबाहेरि मियांचि धाले । जयांचें जीवित्व जोडलें । मजचिलागीं ॥३६१॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
जिहीं	by-whom
मातेंचि	Me-alone (accusative)
अध्ययन	study
केलें	did
जे	who
आंतबाहेरि	inside-and-outside
मियांचि	by-Me-alone
धाले	were-fulfilled, satisfied
जयांचें	whose
जीवित्व	life-itself
जोडलें	was-earned, was-built
मजचिलागीं	for-Me-alone

Literal translation

English: "By whom study was made of Me alone; who were inside-and-outside fulfilled by Me alone; whose very life-itself was earned for Me alone —"

मराठी (आधुनिक): "ज्यांनी फक्त माझाच अभ्यास केला, जे आत-बाहेर माझ्यानेच भरून गेले, ज्यांचे जीवनच माझ्यासाठी जोडले गेले —"

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
āntabāhēri miyāmchi dhālē — inside-and-outside fulfilled by Me alone	No zone of the being outside the Me-saturation; bhakti as total interior + exterior fulfillment, not as compartmentalized practice	The person whose inner-monologue and outward-life share a single dominant orientation — no split between private self and public role
jīvitva joḍalēm mājachilāgīm — life-itself was earned for Me alone	The very fact of being alive — not the acts of life — exists for Me; bhakti as the foundational direction of existence, not as a layer on top of life	The mathematician for whom being-alive itself is for-the-sake-of-the-work; the parent for whom living-itself is constituted by parenthood

Metaphor-family: jīvitva-direction-totalization — bhakti as the ground-direction of existence itself.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

Internal: developed-further from 9.360 (body-dāna → study-fulfillment-life); developed-further to 9.362 (ahankāra-and-lobha-redeployment).
Tukaram parallel: none defensible at this position.
Source citation: BG-9.25 (paraphrase), BG-9.34 (foreshadows — mat-parāyaṇaḥ), Bhāgavata Purāṇa 11.2.42-43 (echo — sarvātmanā śaraṇa-gata).

Modern application

The vocational-life where the question "why are you alive?" has a single answer that has-shaped the very-fact-of-being-alive — not what one does but what one IS.
The post-grief life where survival itself is joḍalēm (earned, built) for one specific reason — a child to raise, a work to finish, a person to outlive-with-care.
The recovery-orientation in which the being-alive itself is the offering, every additional day not merely lived but joḍalēm mājachilāgīm — earned-for-Me-alone.

Sādhanā

Write one sentence beginning: "If life-itself is for one direction, that direction is ___." Sit with the sentence for two minutes without editing. Note what truth, falsehood, or gap the sentence reveals.

Arc

9.361 deepens to the LIFE-ITSELF-FOR-ME totalization. 9.362 will radicalize by claiming the ahankāra itself is borne for Hari's ornament and the lobha itself is borne with Hari's greed — the most-radical reformulation of the kleśa-problem in the cluster.

Ovi 9.362

Original (Marathi): जे अहंकारु वाहत आंगीं । आम्ही हरीचे भूषावयालागीं । जे लोभिये एकचि जगीं । माझेनि लोभें ॥३६२॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
जे	who
अहंकारु	ahankāra
वाहत	bearing
आंगीं	in-the-body
आम्ही	we
हरीचे	of-Hari
भूषावयालागीं	for-the-ornamenting
लोभिये	greedy-ones
एकचि	only-singularly
जगीं	in-the-world
माझेनि	by-Mine
लोभें	by-greed

Literal translation

English: "Those who bear ahankāra in the body — for the ornamenting of Hari (we are) — those who are greedy in the one world by My greed —"

मराठी (आधुनिक): "जे अहंकार धारण करतात — पण फक्त 'आम्ही हरीचे भूषण' म्हणूनच; जे जगात लोभी आहेत — पण माझ्याच लोभाने —"

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
ahankāru vāhata āngīm — āmhī harīchē bhūṣāvayālāgīm — bearing ahankāra for Hari's ornamenting	The ahankāra is not eliminated but RE-DEPLOYED; the bhakta says "I am" only to display Hari as the substance of the "I am"; ego as ornament-of-the-Lord	The professional whose strong-identity carries the institution forward — the "I am the senior surgeon" not as self-display but as the institution's clarity
lōbhiyē ēkachi jagīm mājhēni lōbhēm — greedy in the one world by My greed	The lobha is not eliminated but RE-DIRECTED; the bhakta's greed IS Hari's greed flowing through the bhakta	The person whose acquisitive-energy is fully active and is deployed only on behalf of-another's-claim — fully-greedy and fully-on-the-other-side

Metaphor-family: kleśa-as-Hari-instrument — the kleśas are not enemies but Hari-ornaments and Hari-instruments.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

Internal: developed-further from 9.361 (life-itself → ego-and-greed redeployment); developed-further to 9.363 (kāma-prema-bhrama-redeployment).
Tukaram parallel: 1751 (RADICAL ANTI-CASTE SELF-POSITIONING — hōīmna dāsīsuta tyāchē gharīm + paśu-yāti + pāyatana + kērasuṇī) — the 17th-c reaching-for-the-lowest-status intensification of the same Hari-instrument-doctrine.
Source citation: BG-9.25 (paraphrase), BG-18.66 (echo — sarva-dharmān parityajya), Bhāgavata Purāṇa 7.5.23-24 (echo — ātma-nivedana the ninth bhakti).

Modern application

The strong-personality whose ego is fully active in defense of something other than themselves — the courtroom-advocate whose ahankāra is fully-mobilized for-the-client, not for-the-self.
The collector-of-resources whose acquisition-instinct is fully active in service of a community whose need is genuine — the lobha deployed for-another-than-self.
The artist whose ego is enormous and is required for the work to be carried into the world — the ahankāra itself is the carrying-instrument, not the obstacle.

Sādhanā

Identify one ego-position you currently hold strongly (a "I am the ___"). For five minutes, examine whether the ego-position has been redeployed for-the-ornamenting-of-something-other-than-self or whether it primarily ornaments the self. Don't judge — observe.

Arc

9.362 radicalizes the kleśa-redeployment doctrine for ahankāra and lobha. 9.363 will extend to KĀMA + PREMA + BHRAMA — the most-radical reformulation, where even the bhakta's confusion is mājhiyā bhulīm sabhrama (with-bhrama by My-bhulī).

Ovi 9.363

Original (Marathi): जे माझेनि कामें सकाम । जे माझेनि प्रेमें सप्रेम । जे माझिया भुली सभ्रम । नेणती लोक ॥३६३॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
जे	who
माझेनि	by-Mine
कामें	by-kāma
सकाम	with-kāma
प्रेमें	by-prema
सप्रेम	with-prema
माझिया	of-Mine
भुली	by-bhulī (deception, confusion)
सभ्रम	with-bhrama (confusion)
नेणती	do-not-know
लोक	the-people

Literal translation

English: "Those who are with kāma by My kāma; those who are with prema by My prema; those who are with bhrama by My bhulī — the people do not know."

मराठी (आधुनिक): "जे माझ्याच कामाने कामवान, माझ्याच प्रेमाने प्रेमळ, माझ्याच भुलवणीने भ्रांत आहेत — हे लोकांना समजत नाही."

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
mājhiyā bhulīm sabhrama — with bhrama by My bhulī	The bhakta's confusion is itself Hari-induced — the līlā-bhāva mode of devotional bewilderment	The mystic's seeming-disorientation that is, internally, an orientation; the outwardly-eccentric saint
nēṇatī lōka — the people do not know	From the outside, the redeployed-kleśas look identical to ordinary kleśas; the world cannot decode the bhakti-redirection	The contemplative whose surface-life resembles ordinary-living so completely that no one detects the inward direction

Metaphor-family: līlā-bhrama-as-Hari-induced — even confusion can be a bhakti-vector when the bhulī-source is the Lord.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

Internal: developed-further from 9.362 (ahankāra-lobha → kāma-prema-bhrama); developed-further to 9.364 (śāstra-mantra-cheṣṭā-mātra).
Tukaram parallel: none defensible at this position.
Source citation: BG-9.25 (paraphrase), BG-7.11 (echo — kāmo 'smi bharatarṣabha), Bhāgavata Purāṇa 10.33.39 (echo — bhajate krīḍā ... tat-paro bhavet).

Modern application

The person whose desire-life is intense and is directed toward what-was-not-self — mājhēni kāmēm sakāma. From outside, looks-like-desire; inside, is desire-for-the-other.
The contemplative whose seeming-confusion (the inability to follow a normal-conversational-thread) is the result of an inward-orientation the world cannot read.
The artist's bhulī — the loss-of-ordinary-coordinates inside the work; from outside, looks distracted; inside, is fully-tracked on something else.

Sādhanā

Recall one moment when someone misread your kāma or prema or bhrama because they could not see the direction-of-orientation. Without correcting them in memory, simply observe: from outside, the redeployment cannot be seen. From inside, it can be felt. Sit with both for ninety seconds.

Arc

9.363 closes the kleśa-redeployment cascade with the nēṇatī lōka (world-cannot-know) recognition-failure. 9.364 will turn to the formal-Vedic-instruments — śāstra and mantra — and the foundational cheṣṭā-mātrēm bhajalē maja (mere-action-bhajana) doctrine.

Ovi 9.364

Original (Marathi): जयांचीं जाणती मजचि शास्त्रें । मी जोडें जयांचेनि मंत्रें । ऐसें जे चेष्टामात्रें । भजले मज ॥३६४॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
जयांचीं	whose
जाणती	know
मजचि	Me-alone
शास्त्रें	śāstras
मी	I
जोडें	am-joined
जयांचेनि	by-whose
मंत्रें	mantras
ऐसें	thus
जे	who
चेष्टामात्रें	by-mere-action
भजले	worshipped
मज	Me

Literal translation

English: "Whose śāstras know only Me; by whose mantras I am joined — thus those who by mere-action have worshipped Me —"

मराठी (आधुनिक): "ज्यांची शास्त्रें फक्त मलाच जाणतात, ज्यांच्या मंत्रांनी मी जोडला जातो — अशा प्रकारे जे केवळ कृतीनेच माझी भक्ती करतात —"

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
cheṣṭā-mātrēm bhajalē maja — by mere-action they worshipped Me	Bhakti requires no special form, only the right direction; the mātra (mere) does the doctrinal work — minimal-act-with-right-direction = worship	The text-message that says nothing-special but is sent with full-attention to the recipient; the small-act done with full-direction

Metaphor-family: cheṣṭā-mātra — the mere-action becomes bhajana when directed toward Me.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

Internal: developed-further from 9.363 (passional-redeployment → śāstric-mantric-direction); foreshadows BG-9.26 (the leaf-flower-fruit-water minimal-offering doctrine).
Tukaram parallel: none defensible at this position.
Source citation: BG-9.25 (paraphrase), BG-9.26 (foreshadows — patram puṣpam phalam toyam), Bhāgavata Purāṇa 11.14.21 (echo — na sādhayati mām yogo na sānkhyam ... yathā bhaktir mamorjitā).

Modern application

The minimal-text-message sent with full attention as bhakti-cheṣṭā — opposed to the elaborate gift sent with no attention.
The mere-cup-of-water given with full presence — cheṣṭā-mātrēm.
The minimal-acknowledgement (a nod, a glance, a small word) that carries the bhakti-direction; bhakti as not-form-but-vector.

Sādhanā

Perform one minimal-act today (literally one minute, one gesture, one word) with full attention to one person or one orientation. Note the difference between the cheṣṭā-mātra-with-direction and the elaborate-act-without-direction.

Arc

9.364 closes the mad-yājinaḥ elaboration with the cheṣṭā-mātra doctrine. 9.365 will deliver the corollary — those who have so-worshipped have ALREADY-MERGED-WITH-ME, pre-mortem, and have no other post-mortem destination.

Ovi 9.365

Original (Marathi): ते मरणा ऐलीचकडे । मज मिळोनि गेले फुडे । मग मरणीं आणिकीकडे । जातील केवीं ? ॥३६५॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
ते	they
मरणा	death
ऐलीचकडे	on-this-side-of (pre-mortem)
मज	with-Me
मिळोनि	having-merged
गेले	have-gone
फुडे	indeed, ahead
मग	then
मरणीं	at-death
आणिकीकडे	elsewhere
जातील	(they) would-go
केवीं	how

Literal translation

English: "They have already, on this side of death, come and merged with Me indeed — then how would they, at death, go elsewhere?"

मराठी (आधुनिक): "ते आधीच, मृत्यूच्या आधीच, माझ्यात विलीन झाले आहेत — मग मृत्यूच्या वेळी ते दुसरीकडे कसे जातील?"

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
maraṇā ailīchakaḍē — maja miḷōni gēlē phuḍē — they have already on this side of death merged with Me	The bhakti-merging is pre-mortem (jīvan-mukti-mode); death does not initiate the merging, it only ratifies the merging already completed during life	The retirement that does not change the retiree because the retiree has already, during work, become what they were retiring into; the transition reveals no shift

Metaphor-family: pre-mortem-merging — the bhakta has already arrived before the journey-of-death begins.

Nāth-yogic layer

Referent: jīvan-mukti-as-pre-mortem-Hari-merging — the classical yogic-and-bhakti doctrine of attainment-while-still-embodied (Nātha-siddha tradition). Confidence: medium. Note: the primary register is bhakti-doctrinal (the mad-yājinaḥ's pre-mortem-merging), but the structural-claim is the same as the Nātha-siddha jīvan-mukti doctrine.

Cross-references

Internal: developed-further from 9.364 (cheṣṭā-mātra → pre-mortem-merging corollary); developed-further to 9.366 (sāyujya-attainment-via-upacāra-miṣa).
Tukaram parallel: none defensible at this position.
Source citation: BG-9.25 (paraphrase), BG-8.5-7 (echo — sarveṣu kāleṣu mām anusmara), Bhāgavata Purāṇa 11.14.27 (echo — yathāgninā hema malam jahāti ... bhajaty atho mām).

Modern application

The relationship that has already-completed-its-integration before the formal-marker (the marriage that ratifies what was already inwardly held).
The work-discipline that has already-become-the-self before the credential confirms it.
The grief that has already-passed-into-the-acceptance-state before the formal year-of-mourning ends.

Sādhanā

Name one merging-that-has-already-happened in your life that has not yet been ratified by a formal event. Sit with the recognition: the merging is fuḍē (indeed-ahead-already). The formal event will only acknowledge what is.

Arc

9.365 names the pre-mortem-merging corollary. 9.366 will close PART-II with the foundational doctrinal-summary — mad-yājī jē jāhālē — tē mājhiyāchi sāyujyā ālē — jihīm upacāra-miṣēm didhalēm āpaṇapēm maja (the mad-yājīs came to My-very-sāyujya — they who by the pretext of upacāra gave themselves to Me).

Ovi 9.366

Original (Marathi): म्हणौनि मद्याजी जे जाहाले । ते माझियाचि सायुज्या आले । जिहीं उपचारमिषें दिधलें । आपणपें मज ॥३६६॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
म्हणौनि	therefore
मद्याजी	mad-yājīs
जे	who
जाहाले	became
ते	they
माझियाचि	of-Me-alone
सायुज्या	to-sāyujya
आले	came
जिहीं	by-whom
उपचारमिषें	by-the-pretext-of-upacāra
दिधलें	gave
आपणपें	themselves
मज	to-Me

Literal translation

English: "Therefore those who became mad-yājīs came to My very sāyujya — those who, by the pretext of upacāra (worship), gave themselves to Me."

मराठी (आधुनिक): "म्हणून जे माझे यजन करणारे झाले, ते माझ्याच सायुज्याला आले — ज्यांनी उपचाराच्या निमित्ताने स्वतःलाच मला दिले."

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
upacāra-miṣēm didhalēm āpaṇapēm maja — by the pretext of upacāra, gave themselves to Me	The formal worship-act is the miṣa (pretext, occasion) for the deeper self-giving; the upacāra is the doorway, the self-gift is the entering	The cooking-of-the-meal as the pretext for the giving-of-attention to the family; the act is the occasion, the self-deployment is the substance

Metaphor-family: upacāra-miṣa-self-gift — the formal act as the occasion for the substantive self-offering.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

Internal: developed-further from 9.365 (pre-mortem-merging → sāyujya-attainment-via-upacāra-miṣa); developed-further to 9.367 (the no-upacāra-alone doctrine that opens PART-III).
Tukaram parallel: none defensible at this position.
Source citation: BG-9.25 (paraphrase), BG-9.27 (foreshadows — kuruṣva mad-arpaṇam), Bhāgavata Purāṇa 3.29.13 (echo — sālokya-sārṣṭi-sāmīpya-sārūpyaikatvam ... vinā mat-sevanam na gṛhṇanti).

Modern application

The thank-you-note that is, ostensibly, an act of social-form — and is, substantively, the self-gift through the pretext of the form.
The home-cooked-meal as the pretext for the upacāra-miṣa-āpaṇapēm-self-gift — the meal is occasion, the cooking is offering.
The carefully-chosen-gift that the recipient understands to be not-the-gift-but-the-self-the-gift-carries.

Sādhanā

Perform one formal-act of upacāra today (a greeting, a thank-you, an offering) consciously as a miṣa (pretext) for an offering-of-self. Note the difference between the upacāra-as-form-alone and the upacāra-as-miṣa-for-self-gift.

Arc

9.366 closes PART-II with the upacāra-miṣa-āpaṇapēm-self-gift doctrinal-summary. 9.367 will open PART-III (the anti-jñāna-pride excursus) by stating the negative-corollary — at My-place there is no saurasu without self-offering; I am not seized by any upacāra alone.

Ovi 9.367

Original (Marathi): पैं अर्जुना माझे ठायीं । आपणपेंवीण सौरसु नाहीं । मी उपचारें कवणाही । नाकळें गा ॥३६७॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
पैं	indeed (vocative particle)
अर्जुना	O Arjuna
माझे ठायीं	at-My-place
आपणपेंवीण	without-self-offering
सौरसु	saurasu (juice, savor)
नाहीं	is-not
मी	I
उपचारें	by-upacāra
कवणाही	by-anyone
नाकळें	am-not-seized
गा	(affectionate particle)

Literal translation

English: "Indeed, O Arjuna, at My place there is no saurasu (relational savor) without self-offering. I am not seized by any upacāra alone."

मराठी (आधुनिक): "खरोखर, अर्जुना, माझ्या ठिकाणी आत्म्याचे अर्पण केल्याशिवाय कोणताही सौरस नाही. केवळ उपचारांनी मी कोणाच्याही हाती लागत नाही."

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
āpaṇapēm-vīṇa saurasu nāhīm — no saurasu without self-offering	The relational savor (the actual flavor of the Lord-bhakta meeting) is unobtainable from formal-acts; only self-offering creates the savor	The dinner that has all the right dishes and produces no felt-meeting; the same dinner with one person fully-present produces the meeting
mī upacārēm kavaṇāhī nākaḷē — I am not seized by any upacāra alone	Lord-as-not-purchasable-by-formal-acts; the upacāra-by-itself does not grasp; only the self-offering does	The mentor who can be paid-for-time but not purchased-for-attention; only one's own offering of attention obtains the meeting

Metaphor-family: saurasu-no-without-self — the relational savor requires the self-gift; no formal act produces it.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

Internal: developed-further from 9.366 (upacāra-miṣa-self-gift → no-upacāra-alone-grasps-Me); developed-further to 9.368 (anti-jñāna-pride extension).
Tukaram parallel: none defensible at this position.
Source citation: BG-9.25 (paraphrase), BG-9.26 (foreshadows — bhakty-upahṛtam aśnāmi prayatātmanaḥ), Bhāgavata Purāṇa 10.81.4 (echo — bhakty-upahṛtam icchāmi bhakty-upahṛtam icchāmi).

Modern application

The volunteer-effort that delivers all the right outputs and produces no felt-relation with the community — upacārēm kavaṇāhī nākaḷē. The outputs are correct; the meeting is absent.
The religious-attendance impeccable in form and empty of saurasu — the upacāra alone does not seize.
The friendship maintained by formal-acts (the birthday-message, the holiday-card) without the āpaṇapēm — the friendship-savor cannot arise.

Sādhanā

Identify one upacāra-pattern in your life (a formal-act you perform regularly) that has lost its āpaṇapēm (self-offering). For two minutes, sit with the recognition without immediately correcting. Then, today, perform that same act once with the self-offering restored.

Arc

9.367 opens PART-III with the no-upacāra-alone doctrine. 9.368 will deliver the foundational anti-jñāna-pride formulation — the one-who-knows is the one-who-does-not-know; the one-who-displays-fullness is the lacking-one; the one-who-says-I-have-become is nothing at all.

Ovi 9.368

Original (Marathi): एथ जाणीव करी तोचि नेणें । आथिलेंपण मिरवी तेंचि उणें । आम्ही जाहलों ऐसें जो म्हणे । तो कांहींचि नव्हे ॥३६८॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
एथ	here
जाणीव करी	claims-to-know
तोचि	he-very
नेणें	does-not-know
आथिलेंपण	the-state-of-having-attained
मिरवी	displays, struts
तेंचि	that-very
उणें	lacking
आम्ही जाहलों	"we have become"
ऐसें	thus
जो म्हणे	who says
तो	he
कांहींचि नव्हे	is nothing at all

Literal translation

English: "Here, the one who claims to know is precisely the one who does not know. The one who displays attainment is precisely the lacking. The one who says 'I have become' — he is nothing at all."

मराठी (आधुनिक): "येथे, जो जाणीव दाखवतो तोच न जाणणारा आहे; जो आपण मिळवल्याचे मिरवतो तोच अपूर्ण आहे; 'आम्ही झालो' असे जो म्हणतो — तो काहीच नाही."

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
jāṇīva karī tochi nēṇē — the claim-of-knowing is precisely non-knowing	The asmi-claim itself contradicts the asmi-state; true jñāna cannot be self-claimed	The professional whose loudest credential-display is the marker of insecurity; the actually-mastered move quietly
āthilēmpaṇa miravī tēmchi uṇēm — the display of having-attained is the lacking	The display itself is the symptom of the gap	The over-stated confidence as the signal of under-lying doubt
āmhī jāhalōm aisēm jō mhaṇē — tō kāmhīmchi navhē — the one who says "I have become" is nothing at all	The I-have-attained statement structurally negates the attainment	The newly-credentialed who announces it; the actually-arrived who does not need to

Metaphor-family: anti-jñāna-pride-paradox — the claim is the negation of the claimed state.

Nāth-yogic layer

Referent: jīvan-mukti-as-not-self-attributable — the classical Advaita and Nātha doctrine that the asmi-claim contradicts the asmi-state. Confidence: medium. Note: the structural-claim is the same as Aṣṭāvakra 17.10's manyate yāvad evātmā tāvat samsāram ṛcchati.

Cross-references

Internal: developed-further from 9.367 (no-upacāra-alone → no-jñāna-display-either); developed-further to 9.369 (extension to yajña-dāna-tapas-display).
Tukaram parallel: none defensible at this position.
Source citation: BG-9.25 (echo), BG-16.13-17 (echo — āsurī-self-display siddho 'ham balavān sukhī), Aṣṭāvakra Gītā 1.18, 17.10 (echo — manyate yāvad evātmā tāvat samsāram), Bhāgavata Purāṇa 11.20.27 (echo — sannyasyāham-mati-tyāgam bhajaty atho mām).

Modern application

The colleague who announces "I am now a master" — and is, by the announcement, demonstrating they are not. The actually-arrived simply do the work.
The post-retreat announcement: "I have realized X" — the announcement is the marker; the realization, if real, does not require announcement.
The credential-display in professional contexts that signals not competence but its absence.

Sādhanā

Identify one I-have-attained claim you have recently made (silently or aloud). For ninety seconds, observe whether the claim was the marker of the attainment or its substitute. Don't judge — note.

Arc

9.368 establishes the anti-jñāna-pride doctrine. 9.369 will extend the critique to yajña-dāna-tapas-display — these crackling public acts do-not-amount-to-even-a-grass-blade at My place.

Ovi 9.369

Original (Marathi): अथवा यज्ञदानादि किरीटी । कां तपें हन जे हुटहुटी । ते तृणा एकासाठीं । न सरे एथ ॥३६९॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
अथवा	or
यज्ञदानादि	yajña-dāna and the like
किरीटी	O Kirīṭī (Arjuna)
कां	or
तपें	tapas-acts
हन	indeed
जे	who
हुटहुटी	crackle, flash
ते	they
तृणा	of grass
एकासाठीं	for-one
न सरे	do-not-amount-to
एथ	here

Literal translation

English: "Or — yajña-dāna and the like, O Kirīṭī, or tapas-acts that crackle — they do not amount to even a single blade of grass here."

मराठी (आधुनिक): "अथवा यज्ञ, दान वगैरे, हे किरीटी, किंवा हुटहुटी करणारी तपें — हे सर्व इथे एका तृणाएवढेही ठरत नाहीत."

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
tapēm ... huṭahuṭī — tapas-acts that crackle	The display-mode of the tapasvī; tapas as performance rather than as substance	The intense-spiritual-discipline performed audibly — the noise of the practice is its self-display
tṛṇā ēkāsāṭīm na sare ēth — does not amount-to-a-grass-blade here	At My-place, the display-form of religious-effort has zero exchange-value; without bhakti-mode, the most-exquisite formal act is grass-worth-zero	The impressive CV that, in the context that actually matters, has no purchasing-power

Metaphor-family: tṛṇa-na-sare — grass-blade-zero-value evaluation of display-mode religiosity.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

Internal: developed-further from 9.368 (anti-jñāna-display → anti-karmic-display); developed-further to 9.370 (the three-precedents-evidentiary-cascade opening).
Tukaram parallel: none defensible at this position.
Source citation: BG-9.25 (echo), BG-17.17-22 (echo — three-guṇa-yajña-dāna-tapas classification), BG-16.15-17 (echo — āsurī-yajña dambhena yajante nāma-yajñais te), Bhāgavata Purāṇa 10.40.21-22 (echo — vimukta-māninas patanty adhaḥ).

Modern application

The visible-philanthropy whose visibility is its substance — tṛṇā ēkāsāṭīm na sare in the context of bhakti.
The disciplined-practice performed loudly enough that the discipline is the audience-display; the huṭahuṭī mode.
The intense-fasting or intense-asceticism whose intensity-is-the-display; the formal-content unable to substitute for the bhakti-direction.

Sādhanā

Recall one religious-or-spiritual act you have recently performed. Ask honestly: was it huṭahuṭī (crackling, display) mode or cheṣṭā-mātra-with-direction mode? Note without judgment which one is more common in your repertoire.

Arc

9.369 names the no-grass-blade-worth-of-display doctrine. 9.370 will open the three-canonical-precedents surrender-cascade — beginning with the rhetorical question: who is greater than the Vedas in jñāna? Who more verbose than Śeṣa?

Ovi 9.370

Original (Marathi): पाहें पां जाणिवेचेनि बळें । कोण्ही वेदांपासूनि असे आगळें ? । कीं शेषाहूनि तोंडाळें । बोलकें आथी ? ॥३७०॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
पाहें पां	see!
जाणिवेचेनि बळें	by the power of jñāna
कोण्ही	who
वेदांपासूनि	than the Vedas
असे आगळें	is greater
कीं	or
शेषाहूनि	than Śeṣa
तोंडाळें	multi-mouthed
बोलकें	talkative, verbose
आथी	is

Literal translation

English: "See! By the power of jñāna, who is greater than the Vedas? Or who is more multi-mouthed and verbose than Śeṣa?"

मराठी (आधुनिक): "पाहा! जाणिवेच्या बळावर वेदांपेक्षा कोण मोठा आहे? किंवा शेषापेक्षा अधिक तोंडाळ-बोलका कोण आहे?"

Metaphor-unfold

No extended metaphor — the rhetorical question opens the three-precedents cascade. (The metaphor is delivered in 9.371's answer.)

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

Internal: developed-further from 9.369 (no-display-amounts → three-precedents-opening); developed-further to 9.371 (the iconic VEDA-hides-under-bed + neti-neti + Sanakas-deranged three-fold answer).
Tukaram parallel: none defensible at this position.
Source citation: BG-9.25 (echo), BG-11.40 (echo — ananta-vīryāmita-vikramaḥ), Bhāgavata Purāṇa 10.14.4 (echo — kevala-bodha-labdhaye kliśyanti yathā sthūla-tuṣāvaghātinām).

Modern application

The opening rhetorical-move that forces the listener to acknowledge a paragon (the Vedas, Śeṣa) precisely so the paragon's surrender can land — the Vedas themselves do-not-display, why should I?
The recognition-procedure that begins with naming the highest-authority in the relevant-domain — and then revealing that even-that-highest-authority does-not-claim.
The use of canonical-precedent in argument: not to invoke authority but to disable display.

Sādhanā

Identify the highest-authority you implicitly use as a self-comparison (an expert, a tradition, a figure). For sixty seconds, ask: does even that highest-authority engage in the self-display-mode I am tempted to engage in? What does that comparison teach?

Arc

9.370 opens with the rhetorical-question. 9.371 will answer iconically: even the Vedas hide under the bed; the Veda-quoter returns saying neti neti; the Sanaka-kumāras (themselves jñāna-paragons) became deranged.

Ovi 9.371

Original (Marathi): तोही आंथरुणातळवटीं दडे । येरु नेति नेति म्हणौनि बहुडे । एथ सनकादिक वेडे । पिसे जाहले ॥३७१॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
तोही	even-He (the Veda)
आंथरुणातळवटीं	under-the-bedsheet
दडे	hides
येरु	the-other (the Veda-quoter)
नेति नेति	"neti neti" (not-this, not-this)
म्हणौनि	saying
बहुडे	returns, retreats
एथ	here
सनकादिक	the Sanakas (the four kumāras)
वेडे पिसे	mad and deranged
जाहले	became

Literal translation

English: "Even He (the Veda) hides under the bedsheet; the other (Veda-quoter) returns saying 'neti neti'; here the Sanakas (Sanaka-kumāras) became mad and deranged."

मराठी (आधुनिक): "तो वेद देखील अंथरुणाखाली लपतो; दुसरा (वेद-पाठक) 'नेति नेति' म्हणत मागे फिरतो; इथे सनकादि (कुमार) वेडे-पिसे झाले."

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
āntharuṇātaḷavaṭīm ḍaḍē — the Veda hides under the bed	The very jñāna-paragon (the Veda) does not display; in the Lord's presence, the Veda retreats into hiding	The leading-expert in a field who, before the actual-master, goes quiet — does not perform expertise
yēru nēti nēti mhaṇauni bahuḍē — the other returns saying "neti neti"	The Veda-quoter's mode is apophatic retreat, not positive display; the Upaniṣadic formula is the technical-name of the not-displaying	The interview-with-the-mystic in which every assertion is followed by "but not quite that"
sanakādika vēḍē pisē jāhalē — the Sanakas became deranged	The four jñāna-paragon-kumāras themselves, upon Hari-darśana, did not display jñāna but became bhakti-deranged	The senior-master who, upon meeting their teacher, weeps and is undone

Metaphor-family: jñāna-paragon-non-display — even the highest jñāna-resources refuse to display before the Lord.

Nāth-yogic layer

Referent: Bṛhadāraṇyaka neti neti as yogic-apophatic-discipline — the classical Upaniṣadic-Vedāntic apophatic-method. Confidence: medium. Note: the doctrinal-claim is the same as the canonical Bṛhadāraṇyaka 2.3.6, 3.9.26, 4.2.4, 4.4.22, 4.5.15 neti neti formula.

Cross-references

Internal: developed-further from 9.370 (rhetorical-question → ICONIC three-fold answer); developed-further to 9.372 (ŚIVA-precedent).
Tukaram parallel: none defensible at this position.
Source citation: Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad 2.3.6, 3.9.26, 4.2.4, 4.4.22, 4.5.15 (direct-quote — neti neti), Bhāgavata Purāṇa 3.12.4-7 (echo — the four kumāras' refusal to procreate), Bhāgavata Purāṇa 3.15.27-50 (echo — the kumāras' Vaikuṇṭha-derangement at Jaya-Vijaya-curse), BG-10.6 (echo — catvāro manavas tathā mad-bhāvā mānasā jātāḥ).

Modern application

The senior-academic in the relevant-discipline who, before the founding-figure, is silent; the silence is the highest-jñāna-display.
The credentialed-religious-practitioner who, in the presence of the genuinely-realized, weeps and is undone — vēḍē pisē jāhalē.
The use of neti neti in contemporary contexts: every characterization the listener offers is met with "but not quite that" — the apophatic-discipline as conversational practice.

Sādhanā

Sit for two minutes and apply neti neti to your most-recent self-characterization. ("I am " — but not quite that. "I am " — but not quite that.) Watch what becomes available as the formula erodes the self-display.

Arc

9.371 closes the VEDA-precedent (Veda hides, neti-neti, Sanakas deranged). 9.372 will open the ŚIVA-precedent: even Śūlapāṇi, the tapas-paragon, abandons abhimāna and bears Viṣṇu-pāda-water on the head.

Ovi 9.372

Original (Marathi): करितां तापसांची कडसणी । कवणु जवळां ठेविजे शूळपाणी । तोही अभिमानु सांडूनि पायवणी । माथां वाहे ॥३७२॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
करितां	when doing
तापसांची	of the tapasvīs
कडसणी	count, tally
कवणु	who
जवळां ठेविजे	would-be-placed-close
शूळपाणी	Śūlapāṇi (the Trident-bearer, Śiva)
तोही	even He
अभिमानु	abhimāna (pride)
सांडूनि	having-abandoned
पायवणी	foot-water (pāda-tīrtha)
माथां	on-the-head
वाहे	carries

Literal translation

English: "In the count of tapasvīs, who would be placed close (in the count)? Śūlapāṇi (Śiva). Even He, abandoning abhimāna, carries the foot-water on His head."

मराठी (आधुनिक): "तपस्व्यांची गणना करताना जवळ कोणाला ठेवायचे? शूलपाणी (शिव). तो देखील अभिमान सोडून पायवणी (विष्णूच्या पायांचे पाणी) माथ्यावर वाहतो."

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
śūlapāṇī ... abhimānu sāṇḍūni — Śūlapāṇi abandoning abhimāna	The tapas-paragon-Yogeśvara himself models the abhimāna-tyāga — even the foremost tapasvī does not display tapas-pride	The founder-of-the-discipline who publicly defers to the source-text or the tradition — the founder's modeling of self-disowning
pāyavaṇī māthām vāhē — carries the foot-water on the head	Śiva bearing the Gangā (which is Viṣṇu's foot-water) on his head — the most-iconic image in the Hindu-iconographic tradition of the Yogeśvara-bhakta dual-identity	The towering authority who carries another's authority on their head; the highest-honor-given-to-the-other in public

Metaphor-family: pāyavaṇī-māthām-vāhē — the tapas-paragon as foot-water-bearer.

Nāth-yogic layer

Referent: Śūlapāṇi-Śiva as Nātha-yogeśvara-tapas-paragon who is simultaneously Viṣṇu-bhakta — the foundational Nātha-siddha-Śaiva-Vaiṣṇava synthesis. Confidence: high. Note: Ādi-Nātha-Śiva is the Nātha-siddha tradition's foundational deity; the abhimānu sāṇḍūni pāyavaṇī māthām vāhē names the Yogeśvara-paragon's own abhimāna-tyāga.

Cross-references

Internal: developed-further from 9.371 (VEDA-precedent → ŚIVA-precedent); developed-further to 9.373 (LAKṢMĪ-precedent).
Tukaram parallel: none defensible at this position.
Source citation: Bhāgavata Purāṇa 5.17.1-3 (direct-paraphrase — the Gangā-origin and Śiva-bearing-Viṣṇu-pāda-tīrtha), Bhāgavata Purāṇa 12.12.55 (echo — bhakta-mukha-prāptam superiority), Mahābhārata Anuśāsana-parva 14.4-7 (echo — Śiva-stuti as Hari-bhakta tradition).

Modern application

The founder-of-the-organization who publicly carries-on-the-head the founder-figure-they-themselves-replaced — the abhimāna-tyāga modeled at the top.
The senior-master in a discipline who publicly does what looks-like-junior-work (carries the bag, washes the floor) before the source-figure they serve.
The world-renowned-scholar who quotes their own teacher as final-authority — the pāyavaṇī māthām vāhē moment in public discourse.

Sādhanā

Identify one abhimāna-position you currently carry (a "I have earned the right to ___"). For ninety seconds, imagine setting it down and carrying-on-the-head someone-else's-authority instead. What changes? Note specifically.

Arc

9.372 closes the ŚIVA-precedent. 9.373 will open the LAKṢMĪ-precedent — who is like Lakṣmī in aiśvarya? In whose house even Śriyas (wealth-Lakṣmīs) are maids?

Ovi 9.373

Original (Marathi): नातरी आथिलेपणें सरिशी । कवणी आहे लक्ष्मिये ऐसी ? । श्रियेसारिखिया दासी । घरीं जियेतें ॥३७३॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
नातरी	otherwise (continuing the precedent-cascade)
आथिलेपणें	in-the-count-of-fullness (aiśvarya)
सरिशी	equal-in-count
कवणी	who
आहे	is
लक्ष्मिये ऐसी	like Lakṣmī
श्रियेसारिखिया	such as Śriyas (Śrī-deities)
दासी	maids
घरीं	in-the-house
जियेतें	by-whom

Literal translation

English: "Otherwise — in the count of fullness (aiśvarya), who is equal to Lakṣmī? — in whose house even Śriyas (wealth-Lakṣmīs) are maids."

मराठी (आधुनिक): "अथवा वैभवाच्या मोजणीत लक्ष्मीसारखी कोण आहे? — जिच्या घरी श्रीसारख्या (देवता) दासी आहेत."

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
śriyēsārikhiyā dāsī gharīm jiyētēm — even Śriyas (wealth-deities) are maids in her house	Lakṣmī's aiśvarya is so vast that what would-be-other-Lakṣmīs are her house-help — the cascading-aiśvarya-hierarchy	The billionaire whose staff are themselves wealthy by ordinary standards — the position is so elevated that the help-class is itself a wealth-class

Metaphor-family: Lakṣmī-cascading-aiśvarya — opening the LAKṢMĪ-precedent.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

Internal: developed-further from 9.372 (ŚIVA-tapas-precedent → LAKṢMĪ-aiśvarya-precedent); developed-further to 9.374 (maids-playing-house with Indra as doll).
Tukaram parallel: none defensible at this position.
Source citation: Bhāgavata Purāṇa 5.18.20-26 (echo — Lakṣmī-stuti in Hari-varṣa as Hari-bhakta), Bhāgavata Purāṇa 10.16.36-37 (echo — yad-vāñchayā śrīr lalanācarat tapaḥ vihāya kāmān), BG-10.34 (echo — Śrī among feminine-vibhūtis).

Modern application

The opening-of-a-precedent-cascade: naming the highest-aiśvarya-figure (in any domain) precisely to set up the surrender-image that will follow.
The recognition that even-the-most-affluent-position has, structurally, the same surrender-problem as the lowest — what makes the surrender remarkable is not the absence of wealth but its presence.
The use of the highest-aiśvarya-figure as the surrender-paragon: if even-she abandoned abhimāna, what can we hold?

Sādhanā

Name the highest-aiśvarya-figure in your domain (highest-status, highest-wealth, highest-recognition). For sixty seconds, ask: what would it look like for that figure to perform foot-washing-as-daiva? The image you generate will be the jagā-dhākuṭa aspiration's clearest portrait.

Arc

9.373 opens with the Lakṣmī-aiśvarya rhetorical-frame. 9.374 will deepen — the maids playing-house yield Indra and other devas as DOLLS, the amara-pura itself as the toy-house-name.

Ovi 9.374

Original (Marathi): तिया खेळतां करिती घरकुलीं । तयां नामें अमरपुरें जरी ठेविलीं । तरि न होती काय बाहुलीं । इंद्रादिक तयांचीं ? ॥३७४॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
तिया	they (the maids)
खेळतां	when playing
करिती	make
घरकुलीं	toy houses
तयां	them (the toy houses)
नामें	with names
अमरपुरें	"amara-pura" (immortal cities)
जरी ठेविलीं	if (they) named-them
तरि	then
न होती काय	would they not be
बाहुलीं	dolls
इंद्रादिक	Indra and others
तयांचीं	of-them (the maids)

Literal translation

English: "When they play, they make toy-houses. If they give them the names of amara-puras (immortal cities) — then would not Indra and the others be dolls of theirs?"

मराठी (आधुनिक): "त्या (दासी) खेळतांना घरकुलें बनवतात. त्यांना जर त्यांनी 'अमरपुरें' अशी नावें ठेवली, तर इंद्र वगैरे काय त्यांच्या बाहुल्या होणार नाहीत?"

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
gharakulīm — amarapurēm — bāhulīm indrādika — toy-houses called amara-puras, with Indra as the doll	The radical relativization: the svarga itself is a toy-house in the maids' play; the Indra is a doll the maid picks up and arranges; the entire trayī-vidyā-pursuit-destination is the maids' afternoon-game	The realization that the prestigious-institution one chases is itself a toy-house at a higher level of vantage; the powerful-figure one petitions is a doll in a larger game

Metaphor-family: maids-playing-amara-pura — the radical relativization of the trayī-vidyā-destination.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

Internal: developed-further from 9.373 (Lakṣmī-cascading-aiśvarya → maids-playing-house-with-Indra-as-doll); developed-further to 9.375 (maids-break-toys-and-glance-at-trees).
Tukaram parallel: none defensible at this position.
Source citation: Bhāgavata Purāṇa 10.16.36-37 (echo — Śrī-tapas-for-foot-dust), BG-9.20-21 (echo — the relativization of the surendra-loka-destination), Bhāgavata Purāṇa 1.16.32 (echo — bhukti-mukti-bhuvana-pati-padāny api).

Modern application

The recognition that the high-status-position one is chasing is, at a higher vantage, an afternoon's-toy in someone else's game.
The vantage-shift after a major-life-event in which the powerful-figures who seemed-decisive suddenly look like dolls in a larger-play.
The literary-cosmology in which gods themselves are characters in another's narrative — Mahabharata's nested-narrators.

Sādhanā

Identify one amara-pura (high-status destination) you are currently chasing. For two minutes, imagine it as a toy-house in a larger play. Does this disempower the pursuit or clarify it? Note which.

Arc

9.374 names the maids-playing-house image. 9.375 will close the play-image — the maids break the toys (Mahendras become beggars), the maids look at trees (those become kalpa-vṛkṣas) — the radical-cascade of the maids' arbitrary creative-power.

Ovi 9.375

Original (Marathi): तिया नावडोनि जेव्हां मोडिती । तेव्हां महेंद्राचे रंक होती । तिया झाडा जेउते पाहती । ते कल्पवृक्ष ॥३७५॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
तिया	they (the maids)
नावडोनि	not-liking, tiring of
जेव्हां	when
मोडिती	break (the toys)
तेव्हां	then
महेंद्राचे	of the Mahendras
रंक	beggars
होती	become
झाडा	trees
जेउते	whichever
पाहती	(they) look at
ते	those
कल्पवृक्ष	kalpa-vṛkṣas (wish-fulfilling trees)

Literal translation

English: "When they tire and break (the toys), then the Mahendras become beggars. Whichever trees they look at — those become kalpa-vṛkṣas."

मराठी (आधुनिक): "ज्या वेळी त्या (दासी) कंटाळून (खेळणी) मोडतात, त्या वेळी महेंद्र भिकारी होतात; ज्या झाडाकडे त्या पाहतात, ते कल्पवृक्ष होतात."

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
nāvaḍōni jēvhā mōḍitī — mahēndrāchē ranka hōtī — when they tire and break, the Mahendras become beggars	The Mahendra-status itself is contingent on the maid's continued play-interest; her boredom = his beggar-state	The professional-position held only by the continued-favor of an institutional-arbiter whose attention can shift
jhāḍā jēutē pāhatī — tē kalpa-vṛkṣa — whichever trees they look at, those become kalpa-vṛkṣas	The creative-attention itself produces kalpa-vṛkṣas; the ordinary-tree becomes wish-fulfilling by the glance — the radical arbitrary-power of attention	The neighborhood that becomes desirable because the attention-economy turns toward it; the ordinary-thing made-precious by selective-attention

Metaphor-family: arbitrary-creative-glance — the maid's attention as the kalpa-vṛkṣa-generator.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

Internal: developed-further from 9.374 (Indra-as-doll → maids-break-toys-Mahendras-become-beggars-and-glance-at-trees-they-become-kalpa-vṛkṣas); developed-further to 9.376 (even-such-Lakṣmī-not-counted-at-Mukhya-Nāyaka's-feet).
Tukaram parallel: none defensible at this position.
Source citation: Bhāgavata Purāṇa 10.41.31 (echo — foot-dust-creative-power), BG-10.40-42 (echo — vibhūti-cascade), Bhāgavata Purāṇa 10.81.20 (echo — vinayasy abhitaḥ santaḥ).

Modern application

The professional-position whose continuance depends entirely on the continued-interest of an institutional-arbiter; loss-of-interest = Mahendra-becomes-beggar.
The neighborhood, restaurant, or destination that becomes desirable purely by the attention-economy's glance — jhāḍā jēutē pāhatī tē kalpa-vṛkṣa.
The artist or thinker whose work was ignored for decades and becomes-precious overnight by attentional-shift; the glance creates the kalpa-vṛkṣa.

Sādhanā

Name one Mahendra-status in your life that depends on someone's continued-attention. For ninety seconds, observe how contingent it is. Then name one tree-the-glance-has-made-into-a-kalpa-vṛkṣa: something you have made precious by your own attention. Both are real and equally-arbitrary.

Arc

9.375 closes the radical-play-cascade. 9.376 will close the LAKṢMĪ-precedent — such-Lakṣmī (with all this aiśvarya-cascade) is NOT-counted at the Mukhya-Nāyaka's place; only abhimāna-tyāga and foot-washing-daiva count.

Ovi 9.376

Original (Marathi): ऐसिया जियेचिया जवळिका । सामर्थ्य घरींचिया पाइका । ते लक्ष्मी मुख्यनायका । न मनेचि एथ ॥३७६॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
ऐसिया	of-such
जियेचिया	her (Lakṣmī's)
जवळिका	closeness (of power)
सामर्थ्य	strength
घरींचिया	of-the-house
पाइका	attendants
ते	that
लक्ष्मी	Lakṣmī
मुख्यनायका	at-the-Chief-Lord's
न मनेचि	is-not-counted, not-regarded
एथ	here

Literal translation

English: "Of such closeness — of her — and the strength of her house-attendants — that very Lakṣmī is not counted here at the Mukhya-Nāyaka's (Chief-Lord's) place."

मराठी (आधुनिक): "अशा जवळिकेची, अशा घरींच्या पाइकांच्या सामर्थ्याची — ती लक्ष्मी मुख्य-नायकाच्या ठिकाणी (इथे) मानली जात नाही."

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
tē lakṣmī mukhya-nāyakā na manēchi ēth — that very Lakṣmī is not counted here	Even-the-aiśvarya-paragon with the cascading-Śrī-maids-and-kalpa-vṛkṣa-glance does not count at the Lord's-place — until the abhimāna is dropped	The world-class authority who, at the actual-source they themselves serve, has no special-claim until their self-position drops away

Metaphor-family: aiśvarya-na-manēchi — even the highest aiśvarya does not count at the Lord's place.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

Internal: developed-further from 9.375 (radical-cascade → not-counted-with-aiśvarya); developed-further to 9.377 (foot-washing-daiva-via-abhimāna-tyāga).
Tukaram parallel: none defensible at this position.
Source citation: BG-9.25 (paraphrase), Bhāgavata Purāṇa 5.18.20-26 (echo — Lakṣmī as Hari-bhakta), Bhāgavata Purāṇa 9.4.18-20 (echo — bhakti-faculty-deployment).

Modern application

The world-class authority whose authority is, at the source-context they serve, an irrelevant credential — only the abhimāna-tyāga grants entry.
The senior-position-holder visiting the founder; the position does-not-count; what counts is the inner-disposition.
The expert in a domain entering the master's room; nothing they bring matters except the willingness to drop what they brought.

Sādhanā

Identify the jagā-dhākuṭa-context in your life: the one place where your aiśvarya-credentials specifically do-not-count. For two minutes, sit with the recognition. Note what does count there.

Arc

9.376 names the not-counted-with-aiśvarya doctrine. 9.377 will deliver the resolution — Lakṣmī performed seva with full-being, abandoned abhimāna, became fit for the daiva of foot-washing.

Ovi 9.377

Original (Marathi): मग सर्वस्वें करूनि सेवा । अभिमानु सांडूनि पांडवा । ते पाय धुवावयाचिया दैवा । पात्र जाहाली ॥३७७॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
मग	then
सर्वस्वें	with-full-being
करूनि	having-done
सेवा	seva
अभिमानु	abhimāna
सांडूनि	having-abandoned
पांडवा	O Pāṇḍava (Arjuna)
ते	she (Lakṣmī)
पाय	feet
धुवावयाचिया	of-washing
दैवा	of-the-destiny (daiva)
पात्र	fit-for
जाहाली	became

Literal translation

English: "Then, having performed seva with full-being, having abandoned abhimāna, O Pāṇḍava — she became fit for the daiva of foot-washing."

मराठी (आधुनिक): "मग सर्वस्वाने सेवा करून, अभिमान सोडून — हे पांडवा — ती (लक्ष्मी) पाय धुण्याच्या दैवाला (भाग्याला) पात्र झाली."

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
pāya dhuvāvayāchiyā daivā pātra jāhālī — became fit for the daiva of foot-washing	The DAIVA (destiny, fortune) of foot-washing — the lowest-service named as the HIGHEST-fortune; the aiśvarya-paragon's actual-destination is foot-washing, and that is her daiva	The highest-position person whose actual-fortune is the lowest-service-of-the-source; the inversion of status-hierarchy completely

Metaphor-family: pāya-dhuvāvayā-daiva — foot-washing as the highest-destiny.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

Internal: developed-further from 9.376 (not-counted-with-aiśvarya → foot-washing-daiva-resolution); developed-further to 9.378 (universal jagā-dhākuṭa-doctrine formulation).
Tukaram parallel: none defensible at this position.
Source citation: BG-9.25 (paraphrase), Bhāgavata Purāṇa 10.16.36-37 (echo — yad-vāñchayā śrīr lalanācarat tapaḥ Lakṣmī-tapas-for-foot-dust), Bhāgavata Purāṇa 11.27.20-21 (echo — pāda-prakṣālana canonical-ritual).

Modern application

The senior-figure whose daiva (actual fortune) is found in the foot-washing-service — the most-renowned figure performing the dishwashing at the gathering.
The CEO-on-retreat washing dishes; the abhimāna-tyāga + sarvasva-sevā + pāya-dhuvāvayā-daiva triad enacted briefly and recognized.
The recognition that the highest-daiva for the most-aiśvarya-laden person is the lowest-service — not as humiliation but as the structural-destiny of the configuration.

Sādhanā

Today, perform one explicit foot-washing-equivalent act (a low-service in your context) with the understanding that this IS your daiva, not a deviation from it. Note the felt-quality: does it produce abhimāna-tyāga or its absence?

Arc

9.377 delivers the Lakṣmī-resolution: seva + abhimāna-tyāga + foot-washing-daiva. 9.378 will generalize the doctrine — therefore set-aside greatness, forget vyutpatti, become smaller-than-jaga for My-closeness.

Ovi 9.378

Original (Marathi): म्हणौनि थोरपण पऱ्हां सांडिजे । एथ व्युत्पत्ति आघवी विसरिजे । जैं जगा धाकुटें होईजे । तैं जवळीक माझी ॥३७८॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
म्हणौनि	therefore
थोरपण	greatness, thōrapaṇa
पऱ्हां सांडिजे	set-aside
एथ	here
व्युत्पत्ति	erudition (vyutpatti)
आघवी	entire
विसरिजे	forget
जैं	when
जगा धाकुटें	smaller-than-jaga (the world)
होईजे	one-becomes
तैं	then
जवळीक	closeness
माझी	of-Mine

Literal translation

English: "Therefore, set aside greatness; here, forget the entire vyutpatti (erudition). When one becomes smaller than the world — then is My closeness (attained)."

मराठी (आधुनिक): "म्हणून थोरपण बाजूस सोडावा; इथे सर्व व्युत्पत्ति विसरून जावी. जेव्हा माणूस जगापेक्षा लहान होतो, तेव्हाच माझी जवळीक प्राप्त होते."

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
jaim jagā dhākuṭēm hōīje — taim javaḷīka mājhī — when one becomes smaller-than-jaga, then My closeness	The jagā-dhākuṭa principle: becoming-smaller-than-the-world is the precondition for Lord-closeness; the smallness is not a virtue-to-be-displayed but a structural-position	The fact that intimacy in any deep relationship requires becoming structurally-smaller than the other party at moments — not as performance but as actual-position

Metaphor-family: jagā-dhākuṭa — becoming smaller-than-the-world as the precondition for closeness.

Nāth-yogic layer

Referent: the dhākuṭa / aṇu-mātra-bhāva — the classical Marathi bhakti and Nātha-siddha doctrine of becoming-smaller-than-the-world. Confidence: medium. Note: the doctrinal-claim parallels the classical aṇu-mātra spiritual-disposition in the Nātha-siddha tradition.

Cross-references

Internal: developed-further from 9.377 (Lakṣmī-foot-washing-daiva → universal jagā-dhākuṭa-doctrine); developed-further to 9.379 (the SAHASRA-KIRAṆA → KHADYOTA illustration).
Tukaram parallel: 1751 (the iconic RADICAL ANTI-CASTE SELF-POSITIONING — dāsīsuta + paśu-yāti + pāyatana + kērasuṇī — maidservant-son + animal-being + shoe + broom) — the 17th-c Vārkari intensification of the same jagā-dhākuṭa-doctrine reaching for the lowest-status-instruments.
Source citation: BG-9.25 (paraphrase), BG-13.7-11 (echo — amānitva opening the twenty-jñāna-list), Bhāgavata Purāṇa 5.18.9 (echo — namaḥ-disposition), Bhāgavata Purāṇa 8.7.31 (echo — Śiva's stuti aiśvaryam na sahante bhagavata aiśvaryam).

Modern application

The leader whose actual access-to-the-team requires becoming structurally-smaller than the team's collective intelligence — not pretending, but actually-positioning.
The teacher who can only-teach-when their own erudition has stepped behind the student's discovery — vyutpatti āghavī visarije.
The author who, at the moment of writing, becomes smaller-than-the-reader — the writing only works when the author has jagā-dhākuṭēm hōīje.

Sādhanā

For three minutes today, hold in mind one jagā-dhākuṭa aspiration. Not "I will become humble" (which is the thōrapaṇa of humility-display). Rather: in what one specific situation today do I need to become structurally-smaller than the situation? Name it. Then do it.

Arc

9.378 delivers the universal jagā-dhākuṭa-doctrine. 9.379 will open PART-IV with the SAHASRA-KIRAṆA → KHADYOTA illustration — when the thousand-rayed-sun's gaze is up, even the moon hides; how would the firefly crackle?

Ovi 9.379

Original (Marathi): अगा सहस्रकिरणांचिये दिठी । पुढां चंद्रही लोपे किरीटी । तेथ खद्योत कां हुटहुटी । आपुलेनि तेजें ? ॥३७९॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
अगा	O (vocative)
सहस्रकिरणांचिये	of-the-thousand-rayed (sun)
दिठी	gaze, presence
पुढां	ahead, in-the-presence-of
चंद्रही	even-the-moon
लोपे	hides
किरीटी	O Kirīṭī (Arjuna)
तेथ	there
खद्योत	firefly
कां	how
हुटहुटी	would-crackle, flash
आपुलेनि तेजें	with-its-own-light

Literal translation

English: "O Arjuna — when the thousand-rayed (sun's) gaze is up, even the moon hides ahead, O Kirīṭī. There, how would the firefly crackle with its own light?"

मराठी (आधुनिक): "अरे अर्जुना — हजार किरणांच्या (सूर्याच्या) दृष्टीसमोर चंद्र देखील लोपतो; तिथे काजवा आपल्या तेजाने कसा हुटहुटेल?"

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
sahasra-kiraṇāchiyē diṭhī — thousand-rayed (sun's) gaze	The Lord's presence as the overwhelming primary-light-source	The room's actual-truth being so vivid that any self-display becomes immediately-absurd
candrahī lōpē kirīṭī — even the moon hides ahead	The secondary-luminary (the jñāna-aiśvarya-tapas-paragon) is overwhelmed and hides — not as performance but as the only available response	The accomplished-figure in the presence of the source-figure: the accomplishment becomes invisible — not modesty but actual-state
khadyota kām huṭahuṭī āpulēni tējēm — how would the firefly crackle with its own light	The individual self-display is the firefly trying to ignite its taillight in full-sun — structurally-absurd	The newcomer's small-self-promotion in the room where the master is teaching: the gesture cannot even register

Metaphor-family: sahasra-kiraṇa-khadyota — the firefly in full-sun illustration of self-display-absurdity.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

Internal: developed-further from 9.378 (jagā-dhākuṭa → SAHASRA-KIRAṆA-KHADYOTA-illustration); developed-further to 9.380 (Lakṣmī-thōrapaṇa-na-sare, Śambhu-tapas-na-purē corollary).
Tukaram parallel: none defensible at this position.
Source citation: BG-9.25 (paraphrase), BG-11.12 (echo — divi sūrya-sahasrasya bhaved yugapad utthitā), Bhāgavata Purāṇa 10.13.55-57 (echo — Brahmā's confession after vatsa-rūpa-līlā), Maitrāyaṇī Upaniṣad 6.27, 7.7-11 (echo — khadyota-sūrya image-tradition).

Modern application

The newcomer in the room with the master who suppresses any urge-to-display because the structural-absurdity is felt — the khadyota-kām-huṭahuṭī recognition.
The grant-applicant whose self-promotion-instinct meets the actual-source's presence and goes-quiet: the only available response.
The student-encountering-a-text-of-such-depth that any commentary they had prepared collapses on contact — candrahī lōpē kirīṭī.

Sādhanā

Recall one moment when you encountered something or someone so overwhelming-of-presence that your prepared-self-display silently aborted. Sit with the memory for two minutes. The aborted-display was not a failure; it was the khadyota recognizing the sahasra-kiraṇa. Honor the abortion.

Arc

9.379 opens PART-IV with the SAHASRA-KIRAṆA-KHADYOTA illustration. 9.380 will deliver the explicit summary — Lakṣmī's thōrapaṇa does-not-amount; Śambhu's tapas does-not-suffice; the ordinary-prākṛta cannot-even-know.

Ovi 9.380

Original (Marathi): तैसें लक्ष्मियेचें थोरपण न सरे । जेथ शंभूचेंही तप न पुरे । तेथ येर प्राकृत हेंदरें । केवीं जाणों लाहे ? ॥३८०॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
तैसें	so
लक्ष्मियेचें	Lakṣmī's
थोरपण	greatness (thōrapaṇa)
न सरे	does-not-amount-to-anything
जेथ	where
शंभूचेंही	even-Śambhu's (Śiva's)
तप	tapas
न पुरे	does-not-suffice
तेथ	there
येर	the-other
प्राकृत	ordinary
हेंदरें	burdens, laggards
केवीं	how
जाणों लाहे	would-know

Literal translation

English: "So Lakṣmī's greatness does not amount — where even Śambhu's tapas does not suffice — there how would the other-ordinary-burdens (prākṛta) know?"

मराठी (आधुनिक): "तसे लक्ष्मीचे थोरपण इथे चालत नाही; जिथे शंभूचे तपस्या देखील पुरत नाही — तिथे इतर सामान्य प्राकृत मंडळी कशी जाणू शकतील?"

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
prākṛta hēndarēm kēvīm jāṇōm lāhē — how would the ordinary-burdens know	The doctrine is so beyond-ordinary-comprehension that even-the-Lakṣmī-Śiva-paragons require the abhimāna-tyāga; the ordinary-person's hope is not knowledge-by-display but jagā-dhākuṭa-self-offering	The realization that the actual-doctrine is not graspable by intelligence-or-resources; it requires a different mode entirely

Metaphor-family: summary-of-the-cluster's-precedents.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

Internal: developed-further from 9.379 (sun-firefly-illustration → Lakṣmī-thōrapaṇa-Śiva-tapas-summary); developed-further to 9.381 (śarīra-sāṇḍōvā-aratī closing-exhortation).
Tukaram parallel: none defensible at this position.
Source citation: BG-9.25 (paraphrase), BG-7.3 (echo — manuṣyāṇām sahasreṣu kaścid yatati siddhaye), Bhāgavata Purāṇa 10.14.4 (echo — kevala-bodha-labdhaye kliśyanti).

Modern application

The recognition that the goal in question is not a difficulty-of-degree (a harder version of what one knows) but a difficulty-of-kind (a different mode entirely) — prākṛta hēndarēm kēvīm jāṇōm lāhē.
The acknowledgment that one's resources are not in the wrong category but in no category — the resources do-not-amount and do-not-suffice, structurally.
The honest admission in any deep undertaking: not "I haven't tried enough" but "trying-itself is not the operative mode."

Sādhanā

Identify one project in which you have been trying-harder when trying is not the operative mode. For two minutes, sit with the recognition. Don't immediately switch modes — first acknowledge the misalignment.

Arc

9.380 delivers the cluster's negative-summary (Lakṣmī-Śiva-paragons-do-not-amount, ordinary-cannot-know). 9.381 closes the entire 27-ovi cluster with the foundational closing-exhortation — offer the body, lift-off the salt-circle of all qualities, circle-off sampatti-pride as aratī.

Ovi 9.381

Original (Marathi): यालागीं शरीरसांडोवा कीजे । सकळ गुणांचें लोण उतरिजे । संपत्तिमदु सांडिजे । कुरवंडी करुनी ॥३८१॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
यालागीं	therefore
शरीरसांडोवा	the body as offering
कीजे	do, perform
सकळ	all
गुणांचें	of-the-qualities
लोण	salt (as evil-eye-removing-substance)
उतरिजे	lift-off, circle-and-discard
संपत्तिमदु	sampatti-pride
सांडिजे	abandon
कुरवंडी	aratī-circling, ritual-circling
करुनी	doing

Literal translation

English: "Therefore, offer the body. Lift-off the salt-circle of all qualities. Abandon sampatti-pride by performing the kuravaṇḍī (circling-and-discarding aratī)."

मराठी (आधुनिक): "म्हणून शरीराला अर्पण करा, सर्व गुणांच्या लोणाला ओवाळून टाका, संपत्तीचा गर्व कुरवंडी (आरती-ओवाळणी) करून सोडून द्या."

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
śarīra-sāṇḍōvā kījē — offer the body	The body itself as the offering; bhakti as deha-tyāga (in the offering sense, not the death sense)	The entire-self-positioned as the gift to the work or relationship — not the body's products but the body itself
sakaḷa guṇāmchēm lōṇa utarije — lift-off the salt-circle of all qualities	The classical Marathi domestic-ritual: salt is circled around the head and then discarded as the evil-eye-removal; here the guṇas themselves are circled-and-discarded — even one's qualities are not for self-display	The conscious-act of identifying one's guṇas (qualities, strengths) and explicitly discarding them as ornaments before approaching the actual-work
sampattimadu sāṇḍije kuravaṇḍī karunī — abandon sampatti-pride by performing the kuravaṇḍī (aratī-circling)	The aratī-mode applied to one's own sampatti-pride: circle it around and throw it away as the formal-domestic ritual of evil-eye-removal	The bedtime-ritual of explicitly setting-down what was accumulated during the day, not as a contemplative exercise but as a structured-act

Metaphor-family: kuravaṇḍī-aratī — the domestic-ritual of circling-and-discarding applied to the self's guṇas and sampatti-mada.

Nāth-yogic layer

Referent: śarīra-sāṇḍōvā as the foundational Nātha-siddha deha-tyāga doctrine — the body itself as the locus and instrument of offering. Confidence: medium. Note: the lōṇa utarije + kuravaṇḍī karunī domestic-ritual-mode grounds the deha-tyāga in the Marathi household-religious-life characteristic of Vārkari practice.

Cross-references

Internal: developed-further from 9.380 (prākṛta-cannot-know → ŚARĪRA-SĀṆḌOVĀ-aratī-closing); foreshadows 9.382 (the BG-9.26 leaf-flower-fruit-water minimal-offering doctrine opens cluster 0332).
Tukaram parallel: 1777 (5-FACULTY SELF-CURSE-WITHOUT-NĀMA) — the 17th-c body-faculty-by-body-faculty intensification of the śarīra-sāṇḍōvā doctrine. 1751 (radical anti-caste self-positioning — paśu-yāti + pāyatana + kērasuṇī) — reaching for the lowest-body-positions as the maximal śarīra-sāṇḍōvā.
Source citation: BG-9.25 (paraphrase), BG-9.26 (foreshadows — patram puṣpam phalam toyam ... bhakty-upahṛtam aśnāmi prayatātmanaḥ), BG-9.27 (foreshadows — kuruṣva mad-arpaṇam), BG-9.34 (foreshadows — mat-parāyaṇaḥ), Bhāgavata Purāṇa 11.29.34 (echo — Uddhava-Gītā closing total-self-offering).

Modern application

The bedtime-ritual of explicitly kuravaṇḍī-ing the day's accumulated sampatti-pride: name the day's wins, circle them around in the mind, and discard them as the salt — not denial of the wins but their offering.
The pre-meeting ritual of lōṇa utarije-ing one's guṇas: name the strengths one is about to bring; explicitly set them down before entering; meet the meeting as someone without those ornaments.
The pre-conversation śarīra-sāṇḍōvā: enter the conversation with the body itself as the offering, not as the producer-of-outputs that the conversation will consume — a structurally different mode of presence.

Sādhanā

Tonight, perform a small kuravaṇḍī-ritual. Identify one sampatti-mada from the day (one thing about your performance or position you took pride in). Imagine circling it three times in the air with your hand. Then discard it — physically open the hand and release. Sleep with the discard, not the pride.

Arc

9.381 closes cluster 0331 with the foundational śarīra-sāṇḍōvā + lōṇa-utarṇē + kuravaṇḍī-karṇē closing-exhortation. The next cluster (0332, BG-9.26) will open with the famous patram puṣpam phalam toyam leaf-flower-fruit-water minimal-offering doctrine — the corollary to 0331's body-and-guṇa-and-sampatti-offering. The 27-ovi cluster prepares the chapter's central proof-text of the minimal-offering doctrine.

Cluster summary

Core teaching. BG-9.25's yānti deva-vratā devān pitṝn yānti pitṛ-vratāḥ — bhūtāni yānti bhūtejyā yānti mad-yājino 'pi mām is the canonical yat-yad-bhāva-tat-tad-gati destination-by-worship-direction classification. Jñāneśvar's massive 27-ovi treatment (9.355-9.381) deploys a four-part pedagogical architecture: PART-I (9.355-9.358) renders the three lower destinations with the body-curtain-parting image and the sankalpa-vaśa doctrinal collection; PART-II (9.359-9.366) elaborates the mad-yājino mām clause via the eye-ear-mind-speech-body-dāna-adhyayana faculty-pentad culminating in the upacāra-miṣēm didhalēm āpaṇapēm maja self-gift doctrine; PART-III (9.367-9.378) delivers the foundational anti-jñāna-pride excursus with the three canonical surrender precedents (VEDA-hiding-under-bed + neti-neti + Sanaka-kumāras-deranged + ŚIVA-bearing-Viṣṇu-pāda-water + LAKṢMĪ-foot-washing-daiva-via-abhimāna-tyāga) culminating in the foundational jaim jagā dhākuṭēm hōīje — taim javaḷīka mājhī (only when smaller-than-jaga, My-closeness) doctrine; PART-IV (9.379-9.381) closes with the SAHASRA-KIRAṆA → KHADYOTA illustration and the śarīra-sāṇḍōvā + lōṇa-utarṇē + kuravaṇḍī-karṇē aratī-exhortation that prepares BG-9.26's leaf-flower-fruit-water minimal-offering doctrine.

Theme tags. yat-yad-bhāva-tat-tad-gati · deva-vratā-pitṛ-vratā-bhūta-ijyā-mad-yājinaḥ-fourfold-destination · sankalpa-vaśa-destination-principle · mad-yājino-mām-faculty-pentad · ahankāra-lobha-kāma-prema-bhrama-Hari-instruments-redeployment · upacāra-miṣēm-āpaṇapēm-self-gift · cheṣṭā-mātrēm-bhajalē-maja · pre-mortem-merging · anti-jñāna-pride · VEDA-Sanakas-precedent · ŚIVA-pāyavaṇī-precedent · LAKṢMĪ-foot-washing-daiva-precedent · jagā-dhākuṭa · SAHASRA-KIRAṆA-KHADYOTA · śarīra-sāṇḍōvā-aratī-closing · prepares-BG-9.26.

Contains extended metaphor: Yes — a calibrated four-part metaphor-cascade: body-curtain-parting (9.358), faculty-pentad (9.359-9.361), kleśa-redeployment (9.362-9.363), upacāra-miṣa-self-gift (9.366), Veda-hiding-under-bed + neti-neti + Sanakas-deranged (9.371), Śiva-bearing-foot-water (9.372), Lakṣmī-maids-with-Indra-as-doll-and-foot-washing-daiva (9.373-9.377), jagā-dhākuṭa (9.378), sun-firefly (9.379), kuravaṇḍī-aratī (9.381).

Chapter arc position. Cluster 0331 (BG-9.25) is the LARGEST cluster of adhyāya-9 (27 ovis) and the destination-determining-principle that completes the BG-9.23-24-25 quasi-Veda-yajña micro-cluster of the rāja-vidyā chapter. BG-9.23 granted that anya-devatā-bhaktas are worshipping Me avidhi-pūrvakam; BG-9.24 declared aham hi sarva-yajñānām bhoktā ca prabhur eva ca; BG-9.25 formalizes the destination-determining-principle. Within adhyāya-9: BG-9.1-6 was rāja-vidyā-rāja-guhya proclamation; BG-9.7-10 cosmogonic-block; BG-9.11-12 avajānanti-mūḍhāḥ; BG-9.13-19 bhakti-positive opening; BG-9.20-21 trayī-vidyā-negative-counter; BG-9.22 yoga-kṣema-vahāmy-aham promise; BG-9.23-25 anya-devatā-bhakta + sarva-yajñānām-bhoktā + yat-yad-bhāva-tat-tad-gati doctrinal-three; BG-9.26-27 will deliver minimal-offering and mad-arpaṇam; BG-9.28-30 samnyāsi + sama-buddhi + sva-pacā-bhakta; BG-9.31-34 chapter-closing exhortation. Cluster 0331 is the chapter's most-elaborated single-śloka commentary and the load-bearing central panel of the BG-9.23-24-25-26-27 five-śloka block.

Connects to next śloka. BG-9.26's patram puṣpam phalam toyam yo me bhaktyā prayacchati — tad aham bhakty-upahṛtam aśnāmi prayatātmanaḥ (whoever offers Me a leaf-flower-fruit-water with bhakti — I eat that bhakti-offering of the prayata-ātman) is the canonical proof-text of the minimal-offering doctrine. Cluster 0331's closing śarīra-sāṇḍōvā + lōṇa-utarṇē + kuravaṇḍī-karṇē exhortation directly prepares it: the upacāra-miṣēm didhalēm āpaṇapēm maja (9.366) is the doctrinal-ground for BG-9.26's bhaktyā prayacchati; the mī upacārēm kavaṇāhī nākaḷē (9.367) is the negative-grounding that necessitates BG-9.26's bhakty-upahṛtam qualification; the jagā-dhākuṭa (9.378) is the precondition for BG-9.26's prayatātmanaḥ. The BG-9.23-9.24-9.25-9.26-9.27 five-śloka block is the rāja-vidyā chapter's most-architecturally-deliberate doctrinal-sequence; cluster 0331 is its central panel and 0332 its corollary-completion.

Cluster 0331 — BG-9.25 — *yat-yad-bhāva-tat-tad-gati*

Ovi 9.355

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Sādhanā

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Ovi 9.356

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Metaphor-unfold

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Sādhanā

Arc

Ovi 9.357

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Metaphor-unfold

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Sādhanā

Arc

Ovi 9.358

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Metaphor-unfold

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Sādhanā

Arc

Ovi 9.359

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Metaphor-unfold

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Sādhanā

Arc

Ovi 9.360

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Metaphor-unfold

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Sādhanā

Arc

Ovi 9.361

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Metaphor-unfold

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Sādhanā

Arc

Ovi 9.362

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Metaphor-unfold

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Sādhanā

Arc

Ovi 9.363

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Metaphor-unfold

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Cluster 0331 — BG-9.25 — yat-yad-bhāva-tat-tad-gati