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संत साहित्य · Jñāneśvarī · Adhyāya 13

Cluster 0472 — BG-13.17 — *jyotiṣām api taj jyotis tamasaḥ param ucyate — jñānam jñeyam jñāna-gamyam hṛdi sarvasya viṣṭhitam*

BG-13.17

Sanskrit

ज्योतिषामपि तज्ज्योतिस्तमसः परमुच्यते । ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं ज्ञानगम्यं हृदि सर्वस्य विस्ठितम् ॥१७॥

Translation

THE LIGHT-OF-LIGHTS, BEYOND-DARKNESS is said — JÑĀNA, JÑEYA, the GOAL-REACHED-BY-JÑĀNA — STANDING in the HEART of ALL.

Function

BG-13.17 CLOSES the JÑEYA-definition block (BG-13.12-17) with three precise iconic terminating-formulas:

(i) LIGHT-OF-LIGHTS-BEYOND-DARKNESS — jyotiṣām api taj jyotis tamasaḥ param ucyate. The JÑEYA is named as the meta-source-of-all-luminosity + the BEYOND-DARKNESS transcendent. The api (EVEN) intensifies that even the JYOTISES themselves derive their JYOTIS from this.

(ii) TRIPLE-IDENTITY-COLLAPSE — jñānam jñeyam jñāna-gamyam. The JÑEYA is named as SIMULTANEOUSLY the KNOWLEDGE-ITSELF + the OBJECT-OF-KNOWLEDGE + the GOAL-REACHED-BY-KNOWLEDGE — the precise iconic epistemological-collapse where KNOWER-KNOWN-KNOWING coincide.

(iii) HEART-RESIDENCE-IN-ALL — hṛdi sarvasya viṣṭhitam. The JÑEYA is named in its most-intimate locus, STANDING in the HEART of ALL. This formula is repeated 3 times in the BG (BG-13.17, BG-15.15, BG-18.61) forming the iconic BG inner-architecture of HEART-RESIDENCE.

Jñāneśvar's 13-ovi Treatment

Jñāneśvar's treatment (13.927-13.939) renders the verse in three precise sub-blocks:

(i) 13.927-13.934 — LIGHT-OF-LIGHTS-BEYOND-DARKNESS Block (8 ovis)

An extraordinary extended cosmological-luminary-element CATALOG covering 7 ontological-domains:

  • 13.927 — LUMINARIES (3-luminary): jēm agnīcēm dīpana — jēm candrācēm jīvana — sūryācē nayana — dēkhatī jēṇēm (FIRE's IGNITION — MOON's LIFE — SUN's EYES SEE BY IT).

  • 13.928 — LUMINARIES (STARS + MAHĀ-TEJAS): jayācēni ujyēḍēm — tārāngaṇa ubhaḍē — mahā-tēja suravāḍēm — rāhāṭē jēṇēm (BY-WHOSE LIGHT STARS RISE — GREAT-TEJAS FLOURISHES).

  • 13.929 — META-CATEGORIES (X-of-X recursion opens): jēm ādīcī ādī — jēm vṛddhīcī vṛddhī — buddhīcī jē buddhī — jīvācā jīvu (ORIGIN-of-ORIGIN — GROWTH-of-GROWTH — INTELLIGENCE-of-INTELLIGENCE — LIFE-of-LIFE).

  • 13.930 — INDRIYAS (X-of-X recursion continues): jēm manācēm mana — jēm nētrācē nayana — kānācē kāna — vācēcī vācā (MIND-of-MIND — EYE-of-EYES — EAR-of-EARS — VOICE-of-VOICE). Precisely echoes Kena Upaniṣad 1.2's iconic X-of-X faculty-recursion locus-classicus.

  • 13.931 — VITAL-FUNCTIONS + AGENCY: jēm prāṇācā prāṇa — jēm gatīcē caraṇa — kriyēcēm kartēpaṇa — jayācēni (PRĀṆA-of-PRĀṆA — FEET-of-MOVEMENT — AGENT-of-ACTION — BY-WHOM).

  • 13.932 — COSMIC-FUNCTIONS (Trimūrti-echo): ākāru jēṇēm ākārē — vistāru jēṇēm vistārē — samhāru jēṇēm samhārē — paṇḍukumarā (FORM-FORMS — EXPANSION-EXPANDS — DISSOLUTION-DISSOLVES). Ring-composition with 0471/13.925's TRIMŪRTI distribution now under the LIGHT-OF-LIGHTS key.

  • 13.933 — PAÑCA-BHŪTA (EARTH-WATER-FIRE): jēm medinīcī medinī — jēm pāṇī piūni asē pāṇī — tējā divēlāvaṇī — jēṇēm tējēm (EARTH-of-EARTH — WATER drinks WATER — LAMP-LIT in FIRE). The PĀṆĪ-PIŪNI-ASĒ-PĀṆĪ WATER-DRINKS-WATER paradoxical-image is iconic.

  • 13.934 — PAÑCA-BHŪTA (VĀYU-ĀKĀŚA) + ABHĀSA terminus: jēm vāyūcā śvāsōśvāsu — jēm gaganācā avakāśu — hēm aso āghavāci ābhāsu — ābhāsē jēṇēm (WIND's BREATH — SKY's SPACE — ALL APPEARANCE — APPEARS BY IT). The ĀBHĀSĒ-JĒṆĒṀ terminus precisely renders Kaṭha 2.2.15's tasya bhāsā sarvam idam vibhāti.

(ii) 13.935-13.938 — JÑĀNA-JÑEYA-JÑĀNA-GAMYA TRIPLE-IDENTITY-COLLAPSE Block (4 ovis)

  • 13.935 — ALL-IS-ALL ekatva + NON-DUALITY-LOCUS: kimbahunā pāṇḍavā — jēm āghavēm-ci asē āghavā — jētha nāhīm rigāvā — dvaita-bhāvāsī (in short Pāṇḍava — the ALL IS ALL — where NO ENTRY for DVAITA-BHĀVA).

  • 13.936 — DṚŚYA-DRAṢṬĀ EPISTEMIC-COLLAPSE via SĀMARASYA: jēm dēkhiliyāci-savēm — dṛśya draṣṭā hēm āghavēm — ekavāṭa kālavē — sāmarasyēm (the moment IT IS SEEN — DṚŚYA-and-DRAṢṬĀ — into ONE PATH — by SĀMARASYA). The iconic Nāth-yoga philosophical-term SĀMARASYA precisely deployed at the epistemic-non-duality moment.

  • 13.937 — EXPLICIT TRIPLE-IDENTITY + JÑĀTĀ-EXPANSION: maga tēm-ci hōya jñāna — jñātā jñēya hēna — jñānēm gamijē sthāna — tēm-hi tēm-ci (then THAT-itself IS JÑĀNA — JÑĀTĀ-JÑEYA IS THIS — the place reached BY JÑĀNA — that-also THAT-itself). Jñāneśvar pedagogically-expands BG's 3-fold triple to a 4-fold collapse explicitly adding JÑĀTĀ.

  • 13.938 — SĀDHYA-SĀDHANA-AIKYĀ arithmetic-simile: jaisēm saraliyām lēkha — ānkha hōtī eka — taisēm sādhya-sādhanādika — aikyāsi yē (just-as when CALCULATION IS FINISHED FIGURES BECOME ONE — such MEANS-END REACH AIKYA). The iconic Marathi everyday-arithmetic image rendering MEANS-END identity at the terminus.

(iii) 13.939 — HṚDI-SARVASYA-VIṢṬHITAM HEART-RESIDENCE-IN-ALL Terminus (1 ovi)

  • 13.939 — HEART-RESIDENCE-IN-ALL closing terminus: arjunā jiyē ṭhāyīm — na sarē dvaitācī vahī — hēm aso jēm hṛdayīm — sarvāñcyā asē (Arjuna in THAT PLACE — the DVAITA-LEDGER DOES NOT RUN — let-this-be — THAT WHICH IS IN THE HEART OF ALL). The iconic DVAITĀCĪ-VAHĪ-NA-SARĒ no-dvaita-ledger-runs locus-formula closes both the cluster AND the entire BG-13.12-17 JÑEYA-definition block.

Five precise Marathi elevations beyond the Sanskrit

  1. The 8-ovi cosmological-CATALOG (13.927-13.934) — extraordinarily extending the laconic Sanskrit jyotiṣām api jyotis into a comprehensive 7-domain ŚAKTI-DERIVATION via the iconic X-of-X recursive-formula derived from Kena-Bṛhadāraṇyaka X-of-X tradition. Among Jñāneśvar's most-iconic extended-pedagogical-elaborations in the entire Bhāvārtha-Dīpikā.

  2. Deployment of Nāth-yoga SĀMARASYA at the epistemic-collapse (13.936) — the iconic Nāth-yoga + tantric philosophical-term deployed at the DṚŚYA-DRAṢṬĀ-merger moment. Jñāneśvar's lineage-affiliation (Gaiṇīnāth-Nivṛttināth) explicit at the cognitive-Śiva-Śakti-para-union equivalent.

  3. Marathi pedagogical-expansion of BG's triple to a 4-fold collapse (13.937) — Jñāneśvar explicitly adds JÑĀTĀ to BG's JÑĀNA-JÑEYA-JÑĀNA-GAMYA triple, rendering KNOWER + KNOWLEDGE + KNOWN + GOAL as a 4-fold collapse, closing with the iconic recursive tēm-hi tēm-ci self-identical clause.

  4. The SARALIYĀṀ-LEKHA-ĀṄKHA-HŌTĪ-EKA arithmetic-simile (13.938) — when the arithmetic-calculation is finished the multiple figures collapse to ONE-RESULT — the precise iconic Marathi everyday-arithmetic-image rendering of SĀDHYA-SĀDHANA-AIKYĀ. The iconic Marathi everyday-image elevation of the abstract jñāna-jñeya-collapse.

  5. The DVAITĀCĪ-VAHĪ-NA-SARĒ no-dvaita-ledger-runs locus-formula (13.939) — the precise iconic Marathi accountant's-LEDGER image rendering the HEART-RESIDENCE as the locus where the DUAL-ACCOUNT-BOOK is suspended. The iconic block-closing-terminus.

Arc-position

BG-13.17 CLOSES the BG-13.12-17 JÑEYA-DEFINITION block. The chapter's argument: BG-13.1-2 = KṢETRA-KṢETRAJÑA-VIBHĀGA → BG-13.3-6 = KṢETRA-DEFINITION → BG-13.7-11 = JÑĀNA-19-VIRTUE-CATALOG → BG-13.12-17 = JÑEYA-DEFINITION (now COMPLETE) → BG-13.18 = TERMINAL-SUMMARY. Cluster 0472 contributes the closing terminus of the JÑEYA-definition block: LIGHT-OF-LIGHTS-BEYOND-DARKNESS + TRIPLE-IDENTITY-COLLAPSE + HEART-RESIDENCE-IN-ALL. Doctrinal-progression from 0471 (BG-13.16 avibhakta-vibhakta + cosmic-triple-function): UN-DIVIDED-AS-IF-DIVIDED + COSMIC-FUNCTIONAL terminus (MAHĀ-ŚŪNYA) → LIGHT-OF-LIGHTS + EPISTEMIC-EXPERIENTIAL terminus (HEART-RESIDENCE). The next cluster (0473) extends with BG-13.18's TERMINAL-SUMMARY iti kṣetram tathā jñānam jñeyam coktam samāsataḥ — mad-bhakta etad vijñāya mad-bhāvāyopapadyate — the iconic BG turn from JÑĀNA-pedagogy to BHAKTI-fruit-attribution.