Cluster 0534 — BG-15.20 — *iti guhyatamam śāstram idam uktam mayānagha — etad buddhvā buddhimān syāt kṛtakṛtyaś ca bhārata* (the sealing of chapter 15, Puruṣottama-yoga)

Sanskrit

इति गुह्यतमं शास्त्रमिदमुक्तं मयाऽनघ ॥ एतद्बुद्ध्वा बुद्धिमान्स्यात् कृतकृत्यश्च भारत ॥२०॥ ॐ तत्सदिति श्रीमद्भगवद्गीतासूपनिषत्सु ब्रह्मविद्यायां योगशास्त्रे श्रीकृष्णार्जुनसंवादे पुरुषोत्तम योगोनाम पंचदशोऽध्यायः ॥१५॥

"Thus, O sinless one, this most-secret teaching has been spoken by me. Understanding this, one becomes wise and accomplished, O descendant of Bharata." Then the colophon: Om Tat Sat — thus, in the glorious Bhagavad-Gītā, among the Upaniṣads, in the knowledge-of-Brahman, in the yoga-teaching, in the dialogue of Śrī Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna — the fifteenth chapter, named the Yoga of the Supreme Person.

This is the closing-seal of adhyāya 15. Having unveiled the aśvattha-tree of saṃsāra and the doctrine of the three persons — the perishable (kṣara), the imperishable (akṣara), and the Supreme Person (Puruṣottama) beyond both — Kṛṣṇa now draws a line under the whole teaching: this is the most-secret of all scriptures; merely to understand it is to become wise and to have nothing left to do. Jñāneśvar does not gloss this verse line-by-line. He lets it open into a 29-ovi colophon — first an ecstatic praise of the Gītā itself (the churned butter of all sacred sound, the seventeenth-nectar of the moon, Kṛṣṇa's own hidden-treasure, the spouse wedded to him by the Self), then an unfolding of what kṛtakṛtya means (action, having paid the debt of its existence, dissolving into the knowledge that crowns it), then the outer frame (Sañjaya relaying the nectar to blind Dhṛtarāṣṭra), and finally Jñāneśvar's own voice, reflecting on his act of rendering the Gītā into Marathi and laying the whole book at the feet of his guru Nivṛttināth.

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Ovi 15.571

Original (Marathi): एवं कथिलयादारभ्य । हें जें सर्व शास्त्रैकलभ्य । उपनिषदां सौरभ्य । कमळदळां जेवीं ॥५७१॥ Voice: ecstatic-aside (praise of the just-completed teaching; no first-person dialogue-marker, pure exaltation)

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
एवं कथिलयादारभ्य	thus, beginning from what has been told
हें जें सर्व शास्त्रैकलभ्य	this which is attainable only by the totality of scripture
उपनिषदां सौरभ्य	the fragrance of the Upaniṣads
कमळदळां जेवीं	as on the petals of a lotus

Literal translation

English: Thus, beginning from all that has been told — this, which the whole of scripture together can barely attain — is the very fragrance of the Upaniṣads, as scent resting on lotus-petals.

मराठी (आधुनिक): अशा रीतीनं आजवर जे सांगितलं, ते सगळं — जे सर्व शास्त्रांच्या एकत्रित प्रयत्नानंच कसंबसं हाती लागतं — ते म्हणजे जणू उपनिषदांचा सुगंध, कमळाच्या पाकळ्यांवर रेंगाळणारा.

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
The fragrance resting on lotus-petals	The Gītā as the distilled essence (not the bulk) of all the Upaniṣads — what they exhale, not what they are made of	The single sentence that carries the whole meaning of a lifetime's study — the scent, not the library

Metaphor-family: lotus-and-fragrance (a scent/essence image). The fragrance is not the flower; the Gītā is not one more text but the aroma all the texts give off.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi. The lotus here is the flower of fragrance-imagery, not the cakra-lotus of yogic anatomy.

Cross-references

• Internal: Ring-companion to 15.595 — the सौरभ्य (fragrance) borne by bees there echoes the उपनिषदां सौरभ्य here; the cluster opens and nearly closes on the same scent-essence image.
• Tukaram parallel: (none specific to this ovi)
• Source citation: Bhagavad Gītā 15.20 (colophon) — the Gītā classed upaniṣatsu (among the Upaniṣads); the Marathi renders that classification as the fragrance the Upaniṣads exhale.

Modern application

1. When you finally reduce a huge body of study to one essential thing. Years of reading collapse into a single insight you could say in a breath — that distilled scent is what 15.571 calls सौरभ्य. The bulk was the path; the fragrance is the arrival.
2. When someone hands you the essence of a tradition instead of its volume. A good teacher gives you the aroma, not the herbarium. Notice the gift of compression.
3. When you mistake the quantity of scripture for its essence. The whole of शास्त्र together "barely attains" this — the point being that accumulation is not the same as the fragrance accumulation is for.

Sādhanā

Today, take one body of knowledge you've worked at (a book, a skill, a faith) and write its fragrance in one sentence — not a summary, the single scent it leaves. If it takes more than a sentence, you have the petals but not yet the perfume.

Arc

15.571 names the Gītā as the fragrance of the Upaniṣads; 15.572 sharpens that essence-claim into the churning-image — the butter drawn from the ocean of sacred sound.

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Ovi 15.572

Original (Marathi): हें शब्दब्रह्माचें मथितें । श्रीव्यासप्रज्ञेचेंनि हातें । मथुनि काढिलें आयितें । सार आम्हीं ॥५७२॥ Voice: ecstatic-aside (exaltation of the text; आम्हीं "we hold" is the inclusive author-voice, not Kṛṣṇa-to-Arjuna)

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
हें शब्दब्रह्माचें मथितें	this, the churned-essence of śabda-brahma (sound-Brahman)
श्रीव्यासप्रज्ञेचेंनि हातें	by the hand of Śrī Vyāsa's discernment (prajñā)
मथुनि काढिलें आयितें	churned out, ready-made
सार आम्हीं	the essence (sāra), we [hold]

Literal translation

English: This is the churned essence of śabda-brahma — by the hand of Vyāsa's discernment it was churned out ready-made: the very sāra, ours to hold.

मराठी (आधुनिक): हे शब्दब्रह्माचं घुसळून काढलेलं लोणी आहे — व्यासांच्या प्रज्ञेच्या हातानं घुसळून, तयार करून काढलेलं; तेच सार आपल्या हाती आहे.

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
Churning sound-Brahman as one churns milk, lifting out the butter	The Gītā as the distilled sāra extracted from the entire ocean of revealed word	Extracting the one usable principle from an entire field — the butter that floats up after the churning
"By the hand of Vyāsa's discernment (prajñā)"	The act of churning is an act of discrimination — prajñā separates essence from bulk	The expert whose judgment knows what to keep and what to let settle

Metaphor-family: milk-and-curd / churning-for-butter. The whole of śabda-brahma is the milk; the Gītā is the navanīta (fresh butter); Vyāsa's prajñā is the churning hand.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi. This is the classical dairy-churning pedagogy for distilled essence, not a yogic-process image.

Cross-references

• Internal: (none confidently identified beyond the linear cluster chain)
• Tukaram parallel:
• Abhang 296 — शास्त्राचें जें सार वेदांची जो मूर्ति — तो माझा सांगाती प्राणसखा ("the essence of śāstra, the form of the Vedas — that is my life-companion"). The same single-essence-of-all-scripture move Jñāneśvar makes here — except Tukaram locates that essence in the deity-as-companion (nāma/mūrti), Jñāneśvar in the Gītā-text itself. The shared structure (all scripture reduced to one essence) with a divergent object (deity vs. text) is the substantive parallel.
• Source citation:
• Bhagavad Gītā 15.20 (colophon, brahma-vidyāyām yoga-śāstre) — the Gītā named as the sāra of śabda-brahma.
• Maitrī Upaniṣad 6.22 — dve vidye veditavye tu śabda-brahma param ca yat ("two knowledges are to be known: śabda-brahma, and the supreme beyond it"). Jñāneśvar's शब्दब्रह्माचें मथितें names exactly the śabda-brahma side as the milk-to-be-churned; the para-brahma it yields is the Puruṣottama the chapter has just disclosed.

Modern application

1. When you do the work of churning, not just collecting. Anyone can pour the milk; the value is in the discriminating hand that churns until the butter separates. Reading everything is collecting; finding the sāra is churning.
2. When you receive a distillation and forget the ocean it came from. The Gītā is ready-made (आयितें) for you — but only because Vyāsa's prajñā did the churning. Honor the labor hidden inside the convenience.
3. When you confuse the sound for the essence. शब्दब्रह्म is the word as Brahman — and even that vast sea is only the milk. The butter is what the words are for.

Sādhanā

Today, take one source you keep returning to and actually churn it: write down the single principle that, if you kept only it and discarded everything else, would still carry the whole. Discard the rest on paper. Notice what floats up.

Arc

15.572 gives the churned essence; 15.573 pours that essence into three liquid-and-light images — a river of nectar, the moon's seventeenth digit, the milk-ocean's new Lakṣmī.

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Ovi 15.573

Original (Marathi): जे ज्ञानामृताची जाह्नवी । जे आनंदचंद्रींची सतरावी । विचारक्षीरार्णवींची नवी । लक्ष्मी जे हे ॥५७३॥ Voice: ecstatic-aside (three superlative praise-images; no dialogue-marker)

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
जे ज्ञानामृताची जाह्नवी	which is the Jāhnavī (Ganga) of the nectar-of-knowledge
जे आनंदचंद्रींची सतरावी	which is the seventeenth-digit (satravī) of the bliss-moon
विचारक्षीरार्णवींची नवी	of the milk-ocean of discernment, the new
लक्ष्मी जे हे	Lakṣmī — that is this

Literal translation

English: It is the Ganga of the nectar of knowledge; it is the seventeenth-digit of the moon of bliss; it is the new Lakṣmī risen from the milk-ocean of discernment — that is what this is.

मराठी (आधुनिक): ती ज्ञानामृताची गंगा आहे; ती आनंदचंद्राची सतरावी कला आहे; विचाराच्या क्षीरसागरातून प्रगटलेली नवी लक्ष्मी — हीच ती गीता आहे.

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
The Jāhnavī (Ganga) of jñāna-nectar	The Gītā as a flowing, purifying, life-giving stream of self-knowledge	The living current of insight you can step into and be carried by, not a stagnant doctrine
The seventeenth-digit (satravī) of the ānanda-moon	The immortality-nectar beyond the sixteen lunar kalās — the amṛta-essence of bliss itself	The "one degree more" beyond completeness — the nectar that the full moon's sixteen parts only point toward
The new Lakṣmī of the milk-ocean of vicāra	As Lakṣmī rose from the churned kṣīra-sāgara, the Gītā rises as the supreme treasure from the ocean of reflective discernment	The crowning prize that emerges when sustained reflection is "churned" — the wealth that reflection yields

Metaphor-family: river/nectar + moon-and-digit + kṣīra-sāgara-churning. Three classical Indian treasure-images stacked, all pointing at the Gītā as the highest extracted essence.

Nāth-yogic layer

Referent: सतरावी (Satravī) — the seventeenth kalā / nectar-digit of the ānanda-candra. Confidence: medium. The Satravī is a genuine Nāth/Haṭha-yoga term: the immortality-nectar (amṛta-kalā) above the sixteen digits of the moon, associated with the candra-maṇḍala in the head. Note: here it functions as a praise-metaphor for the Gītā (the seventeenth-nectar of the bliss-moon) rather than as an active prāṇāyāma instruction — so medium, not high. But it is a real yogic referent, not generic bhakti-imagery, and it is in character for Jñāneśvar, a Nāth-siddha. The same term anchors Tukaram's abhang 426 (below), which uses the Satravī to reach the very kṛtakṛtya-completion this cluster describes.

Cross-references

• Internal: (none confidently identified beyond the linear cluster chain)
• Tukaram parallel:
• Abhang 426 — वोळली सत्रावी गा तिणें पुरविली इच्छा ("the seventeenth emerged, and it fulfilled the wish"). Tukaram develops the same Nāth/yogic Satravī image Jñāneśvar uses here, and drives it — न मागें मी भीक आतां ("I will not beg now") — to the kṛtakṛtya-completion (nothing left to ask) that this very cluster reaches at 15.586-588. The shared seventeenth-digit nectar, leading to the same "done, nothing-left" state, is the substantive resonance.
• Source citation: Bhagavad Gītā 15.20 (colophon) — three praise-images for the same most-secret śāstra.

Modern application

1. When you sense there is "one degree beyond" completeness. You've done the sixteen parts — the work is full — and yet you feel a seventeenth, a nectar the completeness only gestures at. The satravī names that surplus: the thing the finished moon is for.
2. When reflection finally yields its treasure. You churn a question in your mind for weeks (the milk-ocean of vicāra), and one day the Lakṣmī rises — the prize that only sustained discernment, not haste, produces.
3. When knowledge feels like a river you can enter, not a wall you study. The जाह्नवी image: self-knowledge as a current you step into and are carried by. Treat your practice as a stream, not a syllabus.

Sādhanā

Today, pick one question you've been "churning" without resolution. Don't try to solve it — just sit with it for five minutes, letting it turn, the way the ocean is churned slowly. Note whatever rises, even if small. The Lakṣmī comes from turning, not forcing.

Arc

15.573 exalts the Gītā in three nectar-images; 15.574 turns to Kṛṣṇa's own voice — the Gītā is so much his essence that he cannot be anything apart from it.

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Ovi 15.574

Original (Marathi): म्हणौनि आपुलेनि पदें वर्णें । अर्थाचेनि जीवेंप्राणें । मीवांचोनि हों नेणें । आन कांहीं ॥५७४॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna (first-person मी "I" — Kṛṣṇa identifying himself with the Gītā; अर्थाचेनि जीवेंप्राणें "by the life-breath of its meaning")

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
म्हणौनि आपुलेनि पदें वर्णें	therefore by its own word and letter
अर्थाचेनि जीवेंप्राणें	by the life-and-breath of its meaning
मीवांचोनि हों नेणें	I know not how to be, apart from Me
आन कांहीं	anything else

Literal translation

English: Therefore, by its own word and letter, by the very life-breath of its meaning, I do not know how to be anything other than Myself in it.

मराठी (आधुनिक): म्हणून तिच्या शब्दानं, अक्षरानं, तिच्या अर्थाच्या जीवप्राणानं — मी स्वतःशिवाय दुसरं काहीच असू शकत नाही.

Metaphor-unfold

No extended metaphor in this ovi. जीवेंप्राणें ("by life-and-breath") is a vitality-idiom (the meaning is the Gītā's living breath), not a sustained image.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

• Internal: (none confidently identified beyond the linear cluster chain)
• Tukaram parallel: (none specific to this ovi)
• Source citation: Bhagavad Gītā 15.20 — uktam mayā ("spoken by me"); Jñāneśvar deepens the bare "by-me" from authorship to identity — the Gītā is not merely spoken by Kṛṣṇa, in its very letter and meaning it is Kṛṣṇa.

Modern application

1. When what you've made carries your very life-breath. A work, a teaching, a child you've raised — at some point you cannot separate yourself from it; its meaning is your breath. Kṛṣṇa says this of the Gītā: I cannot be other than myself in it.
2. When the medium and the meaning become inseparable. "By its own word and letter" — the form is not a container for the truth, it is the truth's body. Beware of treating the words as detachable packaging.
3. When you recognize that the message and the messenger are one. The Gītā's authority is not external to Kṛṣṇa; he stakes his own being on it. Trust deepens where the speaker and the spoken are the same.

Sādhanā

Today, name one thing you've made or said that you cannot separate yourself from — where the meaning carries your own "life-breath." Sit with the weight of that for one minute: this carries me, not just my output.

Arc

15.574 says the Gītā cannot be other than Kṛṣṇa; 15.575 explains why — kṣara and akṣara were winnowed and the whole given over to the Puruṣottama.

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Ovi 15.575

Original (Marathi): क्षराक्षरत्वें समोर जालें । तयांचें पुरुषत्व वाळिलें । मग सर्वस्व मज दिधलें । पुरुषोत्तमीं ॥५७५॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna (first-person मज "to me"; recapitulating the chapter's own tri-puruṣa doctrine)

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
क्षराक्षरत्वें समोर जालें	the perishable and imperishable came face-to-face / stood forward
तयांचें पुरुषत्व वाळिलें	their puruṣa-hood was winnowed away (sifted off like chaff)
मग सर्वस्व मज दिधलें	then the whole / everything was given to Me
पुरुषोत्तमीं	in the Puruṣottama (the Supreme Person)

Literal translation

English: The perishable and the imperishable came forward; their person-hood was winnowed away; then the whole was given over to Me, the Supreme Person.

मराठी (आधुनिक): क्षर आणि अक्षर समोर आले; त्यांचं पुरुषत्व पाखडून बाजूला केलं गेलं; मग सगळं काही मला — पुरुषोत्तमाला — दिलं गेलं.

Sanskrit-root note

puruṣottama = puruṣa (person) + uttama (highest) — the Supreme Person beyond both kṣara (the perishable) and akṣara (the imperishable), the chapter's own title-doctrine (BG-15.16-18: yasmāt kṣaram atīto'ham... uttamaḥ puruṣaḥ).

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
Winnowing (वाळिलें) — sifting grain to let the chaff blow away	The "person-hood" of kṣara and akṣara is provisional chaff; what remains after winnowing is the Puruṣottama	Sorting the real from the apparent — letting two seemingly-final categories blow away to reveal the one that holds

Metaphor-family: threshing/winnowing (grain-and-chaff). Used here precisely: kṣara and akṣara are not destroyed, their claim to be the final person is winnowed off.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi. This is straight Puruṣottama-doctrine (BG-15.16-18), not yogic-process imagery.

Cross-references

• Internal: (none confidently identified beyond the linear cluster chain)
• Tukaram parallel: (none specific to this ovi)
• Source citation: Bhagavad Gītā 15.16-18 — dvāv imau puruṣau loke kṣaraś cākṣara eva ca... uttamaḥ puruṣas tv anyaḥ... puruṣottamaḥ; 15.575 recapitulates exactly the chapter's tri-puruṣa doctrine the colophon now seals.

Modern application

1. When two "ultimate" options both turn out to be provisional. You're sure reality is either this (the changing) or that (the changeless) — and a third thing, beyond both, is what actually holds. The winnowing leaves the Puruṣottama, not either of the two you fought over.
2. When you have to sift the real from the apparent under pressure. वाळिलें — winnowing — is the discipline of letting the chaff blow off rather than clutching the whole pile. What survives the sifting is what you actually have.
3. When surrender is the last move, after discrimination. Note the order: first the winnowing (discernment), then सर्वस्व मज दिधलें ("the whole was given over"). Surrender that skips the discrimination is just abdication.

Sādhanā

Today, take one either/or you're stuck in (this option vs. that option) and ask the winnowing question: is there a third thing beyond both that I'm refusing to see because I'm fixed on the pair? Write the pair down, then leave a blank line beneath them and sit with the blank.

Arc

15.575 gives the doctrinal ground (all surrendered to the Puruṣottama); 15.576 turns it into the cluster's central extended metaphor — the Gītā as Kṛṣṇa's own pativratā.

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Ovi 15.576

Original (Marathi): म्हणौनि जगीं गीता । मियां आत्मेनि पतिव्रता । जे हे प्रस्तुत तुवां आतां । आकर्णिली ॥५७६॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna (first-person मियां "by me" + तुवां आतां आकर्णिली "you have now heard" — Kṛṣṇa to the listening Arjuna)

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
म्हणौनि जगीं गीता	therefore, in the world, the Gītā
मियां आत्मेनि पतिव्रता	is, by Me, by the Self, a pativratā (chaste, husband-devoted wife)
जे हे प्रस्तुत तुवां आतां	which, the present one, you now
आकर्णिली	have heard

Literal translation

English: Therefore in the world the Gītā is, by Me — wedded by the very Self — a pativratā; and it is she, this very one, whom you have now heard.

मराठी (आधुनिक): म्हणून या जगात गीता ही माझी, आत्म्यानं वरलेली पतिव्रता आहे; आणि तीच ही आत्ता तू ऐकली आहेस.

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
The Gītā as Kṛṣṇa's pativratā, wedded to him by the ātman	The teaching is single-pointedly bound to its source — it points to Kṛṣṇa alone, admits no second lord	A work so faithful to its origin that it cannot be co-opted to serve any other master
"Wedded by the Self" (आत्मेनि)	The bond is not external (form, words) but at the level of being itself — Self-to-Self	The deepest fidelity: not contractual but constitutive

Metaphor-family: pativratā-and-husband (single-pointed-devotion). This is the cluster's central extended metaphor. The same image appears in 1.111 — where Duryodhana claims the warriors' single-pointed devotion for himself; here the same image is pointed at its rightful object, the Lord.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi. The pativratā-image is bhakti/spousal-devotion imagery, not cakra/kuṇḍalinī esotericism.

Cross-references

• Internal:
• Parallel-image with 1.111 (पतिव्रतेचें हृदय जैसें पतिवांचूनि न स्पर्शे) — there Duryodhana arrogates the pativratā's single-pointedness to his own ego-cause; here Jñāneśvar restores the image to its true object, the Gītā wedded to Kṛṣṇa. The same image, opposite objects — the irony of 1.111 resolved.
• Tukaram parallel: (none cited for this ovi to avoid over-claiming; the pativratā-to-the-Lord image recurs across Vārkarī verse, but the substantively-verified pativratā parallels are anchored at 1.111)
• Source citation: Bhagavad Gītā 15.20 — uktam mayā amplified into the pativratā-spousal image; tuvām ātām ākarṇilī ("you have now heard") renders Arjuna as the listener of the just-completed disclosure.

Modern application

1. When something you made is faithful to its source and refuses to be co-opted. A piece of work so true to its origin that it cannot be twisted to serve another agenda — that incorruptible fidelity is the pativratā-bond.
2. When you test what a teaching is really loyal to. Ask of any doctrine: whose pativratā is it? What single lord does it actually serve? The answer exposes whether it points beyond itself or back to someone's ego (the 1.111 trap).
3. When you yourself are deciding what to be single-pointed toward. Single-pointedness is a power, not a virtue — its worth is entirely in its object. The Gītā models it: wedded to the Self, to the Lord, not to a cause that flatters the ego.

Sādhanā

Today, take one commitment of yours that is total and exclusive — and name its lord honestly. Ask: is this single-pointedness wedded to something worthy (truth, the divine, another's real good), or to my own standing? Write the one word that is its actual husband.

Arc

15.576 names the Gītā as Kṛṣṇa's pativratā; 15.577 turns from the spousal image to the weapon-image — this is no śāstra of mere words but a śastra that conquers saṃsāra.

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Ovi 15.577

Original (Marathi): साचचि बोलाचें नव्हे हें शास्त्र । पैं संसारु जिणतें हें शस्त्र । आत्मा अवतरविते मंत्र । अक्षरें इयें ॥५७७॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna (continuing the first-person disclosure; the śāstra/śastra pun on the just-named teaching)

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
साचचि बोलाचें नव्हे हें शास्त्र	truly this is no śāstra (teaching) of mere words
पैं संसारु जिणतें हें शस्त्र	indeed it is a śastra (weapon) that conquers saṃsāra
आत्मा अवतरविते मंत्र	mantras that make the ātman descend / manifest
अक्षरें इयें	these letters

Literal translation

English: Truly, this is no scripture made of mere words — it is a weapon that conquers saṃsāra; these letters are mantras that bring the Self to manifestation.

मराठी (आधुनिक): खरोखर हे नुसत्या शब्दांचं शास्त्र नाही — हे तर संसार जिंकणारं शस्त्र आहे; ही अक्षरं म्हणजे आत्म्याला प्रगट करणारे मंत्र आहेत.

Sanskrit-root note

The pun turns on near-homophones: śāstra (शास्त्र, "teaching," from √śās "to instruct") and śastra (शस्त्र, "weapon," from √śas "to cut"). Jñāneśvar plays one against the other: it is not a śāstra of words, it is a śastra against saṃsāra.

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
A weapon (śastra) that conquers saṃsāra	The Gītā as an active instrument of liberation, not passive information	Knowledge that does something — that cuts you free — versus knowledge you merely possess
Letters that are mantras "making the ātman descend"	The words are not signs about the Self; rightly received, they actualize the Self	Words that are performative, not descriptive — that effect what they name

Metaphor-family: weapon/fire-against-bondage (an instrument-of-liberation image), sharpened by the śāstra/śastra pun.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi. आत्मा अवतरविते मंत्र means the letters manifest the Self; reading these as bīja-mantra/kuṇḍalinī technique would over-claim — the sense is the performative power of the Gītā's words, not a specified yogic mantra-practice.

Cross-references

• Internal: (none confidently identified beyond the linear cluster chain)
• Tukaram parallel: (none specific to this ovi)
• Source citation: Bhagavad Gītā 15.20 — idam śāstram ("this teaching"); the śāstra/śastra pun and the saṃsāra-conquering-weapon elevation are wholly Jñāneśvar's amplification of the bare naming.

Modern application

1. When you realize knowing-about is not the same as being-freed-by. You can possess a teaching as information (a śāstra of words) and stay exactly as bound as before. The verse insists the real thing is a weapon — it has to actually cut.
2. When words are performative, not just descriptive. A vow, an apology, a diagnosis spoken aloud — some words do the thing they say. Treat the most important words in your life as śastra, not décor.
3. When you test a practice by whether it conquers anything. Does this teaching actually loosen the grip of compulsion, fear, the cycle you're caught in? If it only informs and never cuts, it is a śāstra of words, not a śastra against saṃsāra.

Sādhanā

Today, take one piece of wisdom you "know" but that has never actually changed how you live. Ask the weapon-question: has this ever cut me free of anything? If not, pick one small situation in the next 24 hours to wield it as a śastra — to act on it once, not merely affirm it.

Arc

15.577 elevates the Gītā to saṃsāra-conquering weapon; 15.578 turns to its secrecy — what was told to you, Arjuna, is my hidden-treasure drawn out today.

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Ovi 15.578

Original (Marathi): परी तुजपुढां सांगितलें । तें अर्जुना ऐसें जालें । जें गौप्यधन काढिलें । माझें आजि ॥५७८॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna (vocative अर्जुना "O Arjuna" + first-person माझें "my"; the intimate secrecy-disclosure)

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
परी तुजपुढां सांगितलें	but what was told before you
तें अर्जुना ऐसें जालें	that, O Arjuna, came to this
जें गौप्यधन काढिलें	that the hidden-treasure (gaupta-dhana) was drawn out
माझें आजि	mine, today

Literal translation

English: But what was spoken before you, O Arjuna, came to this: that my hidden treasure has been drawn out, today.

मराठी (आधुनिक): पण तुझ्यासमोर जे सांगितलं, हे अर्जुना, त्याचं असं झालं — की माझं गुप्त धन आज बाहेर काढलं गेलं.

Sanskrit-root note

gaupta-dhana (गौप्यधन) = gaupta/gupta (hidden, from √gup "to guard/conceal") + dhana (wealth) — "hoarded treasure"; the precise Marathi rendering of the verse's guhya-tama (most-secret), where guhya and gupta share the √gu(h)/gup concealment-sense.

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
A buried/guarded treasure (गौप्यधन) unearthed "today"	The most-secret teaching (guhyatamam) as a hoard Kṛṣṇa has kept and now reveals — for Arjuna alone	The thing you've guarded your whole life, finally entrusted to one person you judge ready

Metaphor-family: hidden-treasure (a guarded-hoard image). It continues into 15.579's deposit (निक्षेप) and treasury (निधी) images.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

• Internal: Continues into 15.579 (the same treasure now as a deposited trust) — the gaupta-dhana → nikṣepa → nidhi chain.
• Tukaram parallel: (none specific to this ovi)
• Source citation: Bhagavad Gītā 15.20 — guhyatamam ("most-secret"); गौप्यधन directly renders the superlative-secrecy as a hidden-treasure unearthed; the अर्जुना vocative renders the verse's anagha/bhārata Arjuna-address.

Modern application

1. When you finally entrust your most-guarded thing to one person. The insight, the wound, the secret skill you've hoarded for years — "drawn out today" for someone you've judged ready. The disclosure is itself an act of trust and love.
2. When secrecy was never hoarding but waiting for the right vessel. Kṛṣṇa kept it guhyatama not from stinginess but until the anagha (purified) Arjuna appeared. Some things are kept hidden for someone, not from everyone.
3. When "today" matters — the readiness of the moment. माझें आजि — "mine, today." The treasure could have stayed buried; the disclosure happens when both the holder and the receiver are ready. Honor the timing of revelation.

Sādhanā

Today, identify one thing you've been guarding — a truth, a piece of hard-won knowledge, a feeling — and ask whether there is one person ready to receive it. You need not disclose it today; just name the treasure and name the possible vessel. Notice if fear or readiness is what's holding it.

Arc

15.578 calls the teaching a hidden-treasure drawn out; 15.579 deepens it — it was Cit-Śiva's deposited trust on my head, and you have become its treasury.

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Ovi 15.579

Original (Marathi): मज चैतन्यशंभूचा माथां । जो निक्षेपु होता पार्था । तया गौतमु जालासि आस्था । निधी तूं गा ॥५७९॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna (vocative पार्था "O Pārtha" + निधी तूं "you are the treasury")

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
मज चैतन्यशंभूचा माथां	on my head, from Cit-Śiva (the conscious Śiva)
जो निक्षेपु होता पार्था	the deposited-trust (nikṣepa) that there was, O Pārtha
तया गौतमु जालासि आस्था	to that, you became — by earnest faith (āsthā) — [its keeper]
निधी तूं गा	you are the treasury (nidhi)

Literal translation

English: The deposit-in-trust that rested on my head from Cit-Śiva, O Pārtha — to that, by your earnest faith, you have become the treasury.

मराठी (आधुनिक): चैतन्यशंभूकडून माझ्या मस्तकावर जो ठेव होता, हे पार्था — त्या ठेवीचा, तुझ्या निष्ठेमुळे, तूच निधी — खजिना — झाला आहेस.

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
A sacred deposit (निक्षेप) placed on Kṛṣṇa's head by Cit-Śiva	The teaching as an entrusted trust, held in a lineage, not invented or owned	Knowledge held in stewardship — received from a source, kept for a recipient, never merely possessed
Arjuna become the निधी (treasury / vault) by his āsthā (faith)	The fit disciple is not a passive container but a vault — faith makes him able to hold the deposit	The trusted keeper whose reliability (not cleverness) makes him fit to receive what cannot be given to just anyone

Metaphor-family: deposit/trust (नक्षेप-निधी) — a continuation of the treasure-image of 15.578.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi. चैतन्यशंभू ("conscious Śiva") here names the lineage-source of the teaching (the deposit from Śiva), an invocation of the divine origin, not an active cakra/kuṇḍalinī reference. (Jñāneśvar's own Nāth lineage traces to Śiva, but this ovi makes a deposit-image, not a yogic-process claim.)

Cross-references

• Internal: Continues the treasure-chain from 15.578 (gaupta-dhana → nikṣepa → nidhi).
• Tukaram parallel: (none specific to this ovi)
• Source citation: Bhagavad Gītā 15.20 — guhyatamam + anagha amplified: the secrecy becomes an entrusted deposit, and Arjuna's fitness (anagha, sinless) becomes his āsthā (faith) that makes him the treasury; पार्था renders the Arjuna-vocative.

Modern application

1. When you realize what you hold was entrusted, not owned. The teaching, the tradition, the responsibility "on your head" came from somewhere and is meant for someone — you are a vault, not an owner. Stewardship changes how you carry it.
2. When faith, not cleverness, makes someone trustworthy with a deposit. Arjuna becomes the निधी by आस्था (earnest faith), not by intellect. The person you can entrust your most-guarded thing to is the reliable one, not necessarily the smartest one.
3. When you ask whether you are a fit vault for what's been given you. Mentorship, inheritance, a friend's confidence — have you become the kind of treasury that can hold it without leaking or spending it? The fitness is the faith.

Sādhanā

Today, name one thing that was entrusted to you (a responsibility, a confidence, a tradition). Say of it: this was deposited with me; I am its vault, not its owner. Then do one small thing in the next 24 hours that a faithful keeper — not a careless owner — would do with it.

Arc

15.579 makes Arjuna the treasury of the deposit through faith; 15.580 explains the transfer-mechanism with the mirror-image.

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Ovi 15.580

Original (Marathi): चोखटिवा आपुलिया । पुढिला उगाणा घेयावया । तया दर्पणाचीचि परी धनंजया । केली आम्हां ॥५८०॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna (vocative धनंजया "O Dhanañjaya" + first-person आम्हां "by us/me")

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
चोखटिवा आपुलिया	of my own purity / excellence (cokhaṭa, the pure-and-fine)
पुढिला उगाणा घेयावया	to take the full reckoning (ugāṇā), before [him]
तया दर्पणाचीचि परी धनंजया	in the very manner of a mirror, O Dhanañjaya
केली आम्हां	We made [you]

Literal translation

English: To take the full reckoning of my own purity, set before me — in the very manner of a mirror, O Dhanañjaya, We made you.

मराठी (आधुनिक): माझ्या स्वतःच्या निर्मळतेचा पूर्ण हिशेब समोर घेता यावा म्हणून — आरशासारखं, हे धनंजया, आम्ही तुला घडवलं.

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
Making Arjuna into a mirror (दर्पण)	The fit disciple reflects the teacher's own purity back, so the teaching can be "reckoned" and transmitted	The student who reflects you so faithfully that, teaching them, you see your own understanding clearly for the first time
"To take the full reckoning (उगाणा) of my own purity"	Transmission requires a reflecting surface — the teacher knows himself fully in the act of being received	You don't fully possess what you know until someone clear enough mirrors it back

Metaphor-family: mirror-and-reflection. A transmission-image: the disciple as the polished surface that returns the teacher's purity.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

• Internal: (none confidently identified beyond the linear cluster chain)
• Tukaram parallel: (none specific to this ovi)
• Source citation: Bhagavad Gītā 15.20 — the disciple's fitness (the anagha purity) elaborated as a mirror that reflects the teacher's own चोखटिवा (purity); the mirror transmission-image is wholly Jñāneśvar's; धनंजया renders the Arjuna-vocative.

Modern application

1. When teaching someone clear lets you finally see what you know. The right student is a mirror — explaining it to them, you take "the full reckoning" of your own understanding for the first time. Transmission clarifies the transmitter.
2. When you choose a confidant by how cleanly they reflect. A mirror that distorts is worse than none. The fit listener returns your meaning undistorted — that is why Arjuna, the purified one, was "made a mirror."
3. When being received well is itself a kind of completion. Kṛṣṇa's purity is "reckoned" only when reflected. Some things you have aren't fully real to you until someone honest mirrors them back. Seek that mirror, and be one.

Sādhanā

Today, find one person who reflects your ideas back to you clearly and honestly, and deliberately explain to them one thing you think you understand. Notice what you learn about your own understanding in the act of being mirrored. That noticing is the उगाणा — the reckoning.

Arc

15.580 makes Arjuna a mirror reflecting Kṛṣṇa's purity; 15.581 extends the container-images — as the sky holds moon and stars, you have set Me, with the Gītā, into your inmost heart.

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Ovi 15.581

Original (Marathi): कां भरलें चंद्रतारांगणीं । नभ सिंधू आपणयामाजीं आणी । तैसा गीतेसीं मी अंतःकरणीं । सूदला तुवां ॥५८१॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna (first-person मी + तुवां "by you"; the cosmic container-image of Arjuna's reception)

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
कां भरलें चंद्रतारांगणीं	or as, brimming with the host of moon-and-stars
नभ सिंधू आपणयामाजीं आणी	the sky draws the ocean into itself
तैसा गीतेसीं मी अंतःकरणीं	so, with the Gītā, Me, into your inmost heart
सूदला तुवां	you have set / inserted

Literal translation

English: Or as the sky, brimming with its host of moon and stars, draws the ocean into itself — so, together with the Gītā, you have set Me into your inmost heart.

मराठी (आधुनिक): किंवा जसं चंद्र-तारकांनी भरलेलं आकाश समुद्रालाही आपल्यात सामावून घेतं — तसं, गीतेसह मला, तू आपल्या अंतःकरणात सामावून घेतलं आहेस.

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
The star-filled sky drawing the ocean (its own reflection) into itself	Arjuna's antaḥkaraṇa so vast it contains Kṛṣṇa-with-the-Gītā, as the sky "contains" the sea it is reflected in	An inner space so capacious it holds the whole of what it receives, reflector and reflected becoming one

Metaphor-family: sky-and-ocean / vastness-container. The receiving heart imaged as cosmic in scale.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi. अंतःकरण ("inmost faculty") is the ordinary term for the inner instrument (mind-intellect-ego), not a specified cakra.

Cross-references

• Internal: (none confidently identified beyond the linear cluster chain)
• Tukaram parallel: (none specific to this ovi)
• Source citation: Bhagavad Gītā 15.20 — the fit recipient's interiorization of the teaching, imaged in cosmic-container terms; wholly Jñāneśvar's amplification. तुवां renders Arjuna's reception.

Modern application

1. When you take something in so completely it lives inside you. Not memorized — housed. The teaching, the person, the music has been set into your अंतःकरण, and now you carry the whole sky-and-sea of it within.
2. When your inner space turns out larger than you thought. The verse images a heart vast enough to hold an ocean and a star-field. Under the right reception, the inner room expands to fit what it receives.
3. When receiving is itself an act, not passivity. सूदला तुवां — you set Me within. Arjuna is not a bucket filled from outside; he actively draws the teaching in. Reception is something you do.

Sādhanā

Today, take one teaching or moment you want to truly keep, and instead of just remembering it, consciously "set it inside" — close your eyes for one minute and place it in your chest, the way the sky draws in the sea. Receiving as an act, not an accident.

Arc

15.581 images Arjuna holding the Gītā within; 15.582 names the precondition — because you cast off the three-fold impurity, you became My dwelling-place.

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Ovi 15.582

Original (Marathi): जे त्रिविधमळिकटा । तूं सांडिलासि सुभटा । म्हणौनि गीतेसीं मज वसौटा । जालासि गा ॥५८२॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna (vocative सुभटा "O hero" + first-person मज "for me")

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
जे त्रिविधमळिकटा	the three-fold impurity (trividha-mala)
तूं सांडिलासि सुभटा	you have cast off, O hero (subhaṭa)
म्हणौनि गीतेसीं मज वसौटा	therefore, with the Gītā, My dwelling-place (vasauṭā)
जालासि गा	you have become

Literal translation

English: Because you have cast off the three-fold impurity, O hero, therefore — together with the Gītā — you have become My dwelling-place.

मराठी (आधुनिक): हे वीरा, तू त्रिविध मळ टाकून दिलास, म्हणूनच गीतेसह माझं वसतिस्थान — माझं घर — तू झालास.

Sanskrit-root note

trividha-mala = tri-vidha (three-fold) + mala (impurity/taint). Commonly read either as the three Śaiva malas (āṇava, māyīya, kārmika) or as the triad rāga-dveṣa-moha (attachment, aversion, delusion). The source does not fix which; both render the anagha (sinless) of the verse.

Metaphor-unfold

No extended metaphor in this ovi. वसौटा ("dwelling-place") is a single residence-noun (the purified one becomes God's home), not a developed image; the three-fold-impurity is a doctrinal triad, not an unfolded vehicle.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi. The त्रिविधमळ is a purification-triad (Śaiva malas or rāga-dveṣa-moha), a doctrinal category rather than an active cakra/kuṇḍalinī process.

Cross-references

• Internal: (none confidently identified beyond the linear cluster chain)
• Tukaram parallel: (none specific to this ovi)
• Source citation: Bhagavad Gītā 15.20 — anagha ("sinless") rendered as त्रिविधमळिकटा सांडिलासि ("you have cast off the three-fold impurity"); the sinlessness of the verse becomes the cleansed condition for divine indwelling.

Modern application

1. When you notice you can only receive what you've made room for by letting go. Arjuna becomes God's dwelling because he dropped the three-fold impurity. The new thing enters only the space the old taint has vacated.
2. When fitness to receive is about subtraction, not addition. He didn't acquire a qualification; he cast off (सांडिलासि) what disqualified him. Sometimes the work is purely removal — of attachment, aversion, delusion.
3. When you ask what's still occupying the room. If you can't house a teaching or a peace, ask which of the three — clinging, resentment, confusion — is still tenanting the space. The verse says: empty it, and the guest moves in.

Sādhanā

Today, name which of the three — clinging (rāga), resentment (dveṣa), or confusion (moha) — most occupies your inner room right now. Pick the single biggest one and, for the next 24 hours, each time it arises, just say inwardly "this is what's filling the room I want to give away." Naming is the first casting-off.

Arc

15.582 names Arjuna's purity as the ground of indwelling; 15.583 checks the praise mid-flight — but why even call it "Gītā"? It is my own sprout of insight; whoever knows it is freed of all delusion.

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Ovi 15.583

Original (Marathi): परी हें बोलों काय गीता । जे हे माझी उन्मेषलता । जाणे तो समस्ता । मोहा मुके ॥५८३॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna (first-person माझी "my"; the rhetorical self-check on naming, and the buddhimān-fruit)

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
परी हें बोलों काय गीता	but why even speak of this as "Gītā"
जे हे माझी उन्मेषलता	for this is My own sprout-of-insight (unmeṣa-latā)
जाणे तो समस्ता	whoever knows it, [is] of all
मोहा मुके	freed of delusion

Literal translation

English: But why even call it "Gītā"? — for it is my own tendril of insight; whoever knows it is freed of all delusion.

मराठी (आधुनिक): पण याला "गीता" तरी का म्हणावं? — ही तर माझ्याच उन्मेषाची लता आहे; जो हिला जाणतो, तो सर्व मोहांतून मुक्त होतो.

Sanskrit-root note

unmeṣa = ud- (up/forth) + √miṣ ("to open the eyes, to bloom") — the "opening" or "blooming-forth" of awareness; unmeṣa-latā = the creeper/tendril of that blooming insight. The same word Jñāneśvar uses of his own poetic insight at 15.594.

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
The Gītā as Kṛṣṇa's own उन्मेषलता (tendril/sprout of blooming insight)	The teaching is not a fixed object to be named but a living growth out of the source-awareness itself	A living idea that is still growing out of the mind that bears it — too alive to be filed under a label

Metaphor-family: creeper/sprout (latā) — a living-growth image; here it shifts the Gītā from named-object to organic-emanation.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi. उन्मेष has a technical Śaiva-Pratyabhijñā sense (the "unfolding" of consciousness), but here it is used in its general sense of "blooming insight" (mirrored at 15.594 of Jñāneśvar's own); reading the Spanda-unmeṣa doctrine into it would over-claim.

Cross-references

• Internal: Parallel-image with 15.594 — Jñāneśvar renders the Gītā "by my own उन्मेष"; the same insight-word is used of Kṛṣṇa's source-insight here and the poet's reception there.
• Tukaram parallel: (none specific to this ovi)
• Source citation: Bhagavad Gītā 15.20 — etad buddhvā buddhimān syāt ("understanding this, one becomes wise"); rendered as जाणे तो समस्ता मोहा मुके ("whoever knows it is freed of all delusion") — the buddhvā (understanding) becomes release-from-delusion, the verse's promised wisdom-fruit.

Modern application

1. When a label is too small for a living thing. "Why even call it Gītā?" — sometimes the name files away something still growing. Notice when your categories flatten what is actually alive and unfolding.
2. When understanding (not information) is what frees you. The fruit is for the one who knows it — जाणे तो — not the one who merely owns the text. Delusion lifts in the act of real understanding, never in mere possession.
3. When an insight is still sprouting and you try to fix it. उन्मेषलता is a tendril, still reaching. Some of your own best ideas should be left to keep blooming rather than pinned down and named-done too early.

Sādhanā

Today, take one understanding you've labeled and "filed as done," and ask: is it actually still growing? Give it five minutes of fresh attention as a living tendril, not a finished object — let it put out one new shoot of insight you hadn't named before.

Arc

15.583 ties knowing the Gītā to release from delusion; 15.584 gives the amṛta-river image for that release — drinking this nectar cures the disease and confers deathlessness.

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Ovi 15.584

Original (Marathi): सेविली अमृतसरिता । रोगु दवडूनि पंडुसुता । अमरपण उचितां । देऊनि घाली ॥५८४॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna (vocative पंडुसुता "O son of Pāṇḍu"; the nectar-cure image)

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
सेविली अमृतसरिता	the nectar-river (amṛta-saritā), having been served/drunk
रोगु दवडूनि पंडुसुता	driving off the disease, O son of Pāṇḍu
अमरपण उचितां	deathlessness (amaratva), fittingly
देऊनि घाली	it bestows / pours out

Literal translation

English: This nectar-river, once drunk, drives off the disease, O son of Pāṇḍu — and fittingly bestows deathlessness.

मराठी (आधुनिक): ही अमृताची नदी प्राशन केली, की रोग पळवून लावते, हे पंडुसुता — आणि उचितच, अमरत्व देऊन टाकते.

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
The amṛta-river drunk, driving off "the disease"	The Gītā as both medicine (curing the malady of saṃsāra/delusion) and amṛta (conferring immortal self-knowledge)	A truth that doesn't just relieve the symptom (suffering) but ends the underlying condition that produced it
"Fittingly bestows deathlessness"	Release from delusion (cure) and union with the deathless Self (amaratva) are one gift, not two	Healing and transformation arriving together — you're not merely patched up, you're made new

Metaphor-family: amṛta-river / medicine (nectar-and-cure). The roga (disease) is saṃsāric delusion; the amṛta is self-knowledge.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi. The अमृत here is the nectar-of-self-knowledge in a medicine-image, not the specific yogic amṛta-bindu dripping from the cranial moon (which is invoked, distinctly, at 15.573's Satravī).

Cross-references

• Internal: (none confidently identified beyond the linear cluster chain)
• Tukaram parallel: (none specific to this ovi)
• Source citation: Bhagavad Gītā 15.20 — the buddhimān + kṛtakṛtya fruit imaged as a nectar-river: the disease-cured renders the delusion-loss, the deathlessness-conferred renders the accomplished-immortal-state; पंडुसुता renders the Arjuna-address.

Modern application

1. When something heals the cause, not just the symptom. Most relief manages symptoms; the amṛta-river "drives off the disease" itself. Look for the teaching or change that addresses what produces your recurring suffering, not just its latest flare.
2. When healing and transformation come as one gift. The verse gives cure and deathlessness together. Real change isn't being patched back to how you were — it's being remade. Don't settle for the patch when the amṛta is on offer.
3. When you have to actually drink it, not just admire it. सेविली — drunk. A nectar-river you stand beside and praise cures nothing. The cure is in the drinking — the doing of the teaching, not the appreciating of it.

Sādhanā

Today, identify one recurring "disease" in your life — a pattern of suffering that keeps returning. Name the symptom you usually treat, then name the underlying condition once. Take one sip of the amṛta: do a single act today that addresses the cause, not the symptom.

Arc

15.584 gives the nectar-cure; 15.585 draws the inference — when this Gītā is known, no wonder delusion departs; by self-knowledge one is united with one's own Self.

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Ovi 15.585

Original (Marathi): तैसी गीता हे जाणितलिया । काय विस्मयो मोह जावया । परी आत्मज्ञानें आपणापयां । मिळिजे येथ ॥५८५॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna (continuing the disclosure; the union-with-the-Self conclusion)

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
तैसी गीता हे जाणितलिया	so, when this Gītā is known
काय विस्मयो मोह जावया	what wonder is it that delusion departs
परी आत्मज्ञानें आपणापयां	but by self-knowledge, with one's own self
मिळिजे येथ	one is united, here

Literal translation

English: So, when this Gītā is known, what wonder that delusion departs? — but more: by self-knowledge, one is here united with one's own Self.

मराठी (आधुनिक): अशी ही गीता जाणली, की मोह जातो यात नवल ते काय? — पण त्याहून, आत्मज्ञानानं माणूस इथंच आपल्या स्वतःशी एकरूप होतो.

Metaphor-unfold

No extended metaphor in this ovi. आपणापयां मिळिजे ("united with one's own self") is a direct doctrinal statement of self-union, not an image.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

• Internal: (none confidently identified beyond the linear cluster chain)
• Tukaram parallel: (none specific to this ovi)
• Source citation: Bhagavad Gītā 15.20 — etad buddhvā buddhimān syāt ("knowing it, one becomes wise") plus the move toward kṛtakṛtya: union with one's own Self (आत्मज्ञानें आपणापयां मिळिजे) as the accomplished end-state.

Modern application

1. When the obvious result is the lesser result. "What wonder that delusion departs?" — that's expected. The real gift is the positive one underneath: union with your own Self. Don't stop at relief; the point is the homecoming.
2. When self-knowledge is a reunion, not an acquisition. मिळिजे — you are united with what was always yourself. You don't gain a new self; you rejoin the one you'd been estranged from. Frame growth as return, not addition.
3. When the goal is "here," not elsewhere. येथ — here. The union is available in this life, this place, not postponed to some beyond. The kṛtakṛtya-completion is a present possibility.

Sādhanā

Today, notice one moment when you feel reunited with yourself — when the inner division (wanting-to-be-elsewhere, being-at-odds-with-yourself) briefly closes. Don't manufacture it; just catch one such moment and silently mark it: here, now, this is आपणापयां मिळिजे.

Arc

15.585 names self-knowledge as union with the Self; 15.586 unfolds kṛtakṛtya proper — in that self-knowledge, action, having repaid the debt of its own life, dissolves.

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Ovi 15.586

Original (Marathi): जया आत्मज्ञानाच्या ठायीं । कर्म आपुलेया जीविता पाहीं । होऊनियां उतराई । लया जाय ॥५८६॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna (the kṛtakṛtya-unfolding; action repaying its debt and dissolving)

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
जया आत्मज्ञानाच्या ठायीं	in that very place of self-knowledge
कर्म आपुलेया जीविता पाहीं	action — see — toward its own life / existence
होऊनियां उतराई	having become free-of-debt (utarāī, the debt repaid)
लया जाय	dissolves / merges away (laya)

Literal translation

English: In that place of self-knowledge, see — action, having repaid the debt of its own existence, dissolves away.

मराठी (आधुनिक): ज्या आत्मज्ञानाच्या ठिकाणी, बघ — कर्म आपल्याच जगण्याचं देणं फेडून, उतराई होऊन, विलय पावतं.

Sanskrit-root note

laya = √lī ("to dissolve, to merge") — the merging-away of action into its ground; utarāī (Marathi, उतराई) = "free of debt, having discharged the obligation." Kṛtakṛtya is unfolded as: action discharges its purpose (utarāī) and then merges (laya).

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
Action repaying the "debt of its own life" and then dissolving (लया जाय)	Kṛtakṛtya: once self-knowledge is reached, action has nothing left to accomplish — it has paid the debt that was its very reason-for-being, and subsides	The striving that, having reached what it was for, quietly stops — not abandoned, but completed and so released

Metaphor-family: debt-repayment (ऋण-उतराई) + dissolution (laya). Action as a loan that, once its purpose is served, is discharged and returns to its source.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi. लय here is the metaphysical dissolution of karma into self-knowledge, not the yogic laya (absorption of prāṇa/mind) of haṭha-practice.

Cross-references

• Internal: Developed-further by 15.587 — the same dissolution imaged as the trail ending when the lost thing is found, and knowledge crowning the temple-of-action.
• Tukaram parallel:
• Abhang 426 — न मागें मी भीक आतां ("I will not beg now") + पुरविली इच्छा ("the wish fulfilled") + मी माजी हारपलें ("I-and-mine is lost"). Tukaram reaches the same completion-register this cluster reaches in kṛtakṛtya: nothing left to ask for, the I-and-mine dissolved. Where Jñāneśvar has action repay its debt and merge, Tukaram has the begging end and the self lose itself — the bhakti-twin of the same "done, complete" state (and Tukaram arrives there via the very Satravī shared with 15.573).
• Source citation: Bhagavad Gītā 15.20 — kṛtakṛtyaḥ ("one whose duty is done"); उतराई होऊनियां लया जाय ("the debt repaid, it dissolves") precisely renders the compound — all-that-was-to-be-done is done, and action itself subsides.

Modern application

1. When striving stops not from exhaustion but from completion. There's a quitting that is defeat and a quitting that is kṛtakṛtya — the effort has reached what it was for, paid its debt, and can rest. Learn to tell the two apart.
2. When you've been "paying off" an action long after its purpose was met. Some of your busyness is a debt already discharged — you just keep paying. Ask which efforts have already done their work and could be allowed to dissolve.
3. When self-knowledge changes your relationship to doing. In the "place of self-knowledge," action loses its anxious compulsion — not because you stop acting, but because nothing further is being demanded of the action. Work from fullness, not from debt.

Sādhanā

Today, find one task or striving you keep doing out of habit, whose original purpose is actually already met. Ask honestly: has this already paid its debt? If yes, let it dissolve — consciously stop it once, and notice the lightness of an action allowed to complete.

Arc

15.586 says action repays its debt and dissolves; 15.587 gives the image — as a trail ends when the lost thing is found, knowledge climbs as the pinnacle of the temple-of-action.

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Ovi 15.587

Original (Marathi): हरपलें दाऊनि जैसा । मागु सरे वीरविलासा । ज्ञानचि कळस वळघे तैसा । कर्मप्रासादाचा ॥५८७॥ Voice: krishna-to-arjuna (the temple-pinnacle image completing the kṛtakṛtya-unfolding)

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
हरपलें दाऊनि जैसा	as, the lost thing being shown / found
मागु सरे वीरविलासा	the trail / track is spent, in the hero's-sport (vīra-vilāsa)
ज्ञानचि कळस वळघे तैसा	so knowledge itself climbs as the pinnacle (kaḷasa)
कर्मप्रासादाचा	of the temple-of-action (karma-prāsāda)

Literal translation

English: As, when the lost thing is found, the search-trail is spent — so knowledge itself climbs to become the crowning pinnacle of the temple of action.

मराठी (आधुनिक): जसं हरवलेलं सापडलं की मागोवा संपतो — तसं ज्ञानच कर्माच्या मंदिराचा कळस होऊन वर चढतं.

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
The search-trail ending once the lost thing is found	Action's "course" is a search; once its goal (knowledge) appears, the searching is spent	The project that ends not by being abandoned but by arriving — the path stops because you're there
Knowledge as the कळस (finial/pinnacle) crowning the कर्मप्रासाद (temple-of-action)	Action is the temple-structure; knowledge is the crowning finial — action is consummated and topped, not demolished	The capstone that completes the building — the work isn't torn down, it's crowned

Metaphor-family: temple-and-finial (प्रासाद-कळस) + search-trail. The two together insist: kṛtakṛtya is action completed-and-crowned, not action abandoned.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

• Internal: Developed-further from 15.586 — the temple-pinnacle image completes the debt-repayment image: action is not merely discharged but crowned by the knowledge that tops it. Developed-further into 15.588 — the plain conclusion that for the wise, all-to-be-done is finished.
• Tukaram parallel: (none specific to this ovi)
• Source citation: Bhagavad Gītā 15.20 — kṛtakṛtya amplified by the प्रासाद-कळस image: action consummated and crowned by knowledge, not abolished — the wise person's completion.

Modern application

1. When a path ends by arriving, not by quitting. हरपलें दाऊनि मागु सरे — the trail stops because the lost thing is found. Distinguish the road that ends in arrival from the one you simply walk off. Completion has a different feel than abandonment.
2. When knowledge is the capstone on a life of action, not its replacement. The verse refuses the false choice between doing and knowing: action is the temple, knowledge the finial that completes it. You don't trade the building for the spire; you crown the building with it.
3. When you fear that understanding will make your work pointless. It won't demolish the temple — it crowns it. The years of action aren't wasted when insight finally tops them; they're exactly what the insight completes.

Sādhanā

Today, look at one long effort in your life as a temple under construction, and ask: what would its कळस — its crowning insight — be? Write one sentence naming the understanding that would complete (not cancel) all that work. Place it, in your mind, as the finial on top.

Arc

15.587 crowns action with knowledge; 15.588 states the plain conclusion — for the wise person, all that was to be done is finished — and names the speaker as the friend of the helpless.

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Ovi 15.588

Original (Marathi): म्हणौनि ज्ञानिया पुरुषा । कृत्य करूं सरलें देखा । ऐसा अनाथांचा सखा । बोलिला तो ॥५८८॥ Voice: ecstatic-aside (the ovi pivots from stating kṛtakṛtya to an ecstatic naming of Kṛṣṇa as अनाथांचा सखा "friend of the helpless," बोलिला तो "he who spoke this" — the voice tips from Kṛṣṇa-speaking to Jñāneśvar praising Kṛṣṇa)

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
म्हणौनि ज्ञानिया पुरुषा	therefore, for the wise person (jñānin)
कृत्य करूं सरलें देखा	the thing-to-be-done is finished — see
ऐसा अनाथांचा सखा	such is the friend of the helpless / orphaned (anātha)
बोलिला तो	he who spoke this

Literal translation

English: Therefore, for the wise person, the thing-to-be-done is finished — see. Such is the friend of the helpless, he who spoke this.

मराठी (आधुनिक): म्हणून ज्ञानी पुरुषाला, करायचं ते सगळं संपलं — बघ. असा हा अनाथांचा सखा, ज्यानं हे सांगितलं.

Metaphor-unfold

No extended metaphor in this ovi. अनाथांचा सखा ("friend of the helpless") is an epithet of Kṛṣṇa, not a developed image; कृत्य करूं सरलें is a direct statement of kṛtakṛtya.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

• Internal: Developed-further into 15.589 — the speaker just named (the friend of the helpless) is the source of the nectar-speech now traced into the Sañjaya-frame.
• Tukaram parallel: (none specific to this ovi)
• Source citation: Bhagavad Gītā 15.20 — kṛtakṛtya rendered directly as कृत्य करूं सरलें ("the duty-to-be-done is finished"); the voice tips, mid-ovi, from Kṛṣṇa's disclosure to Jñāneśvar's ecstatic naming of Kṛṣṇa as अनाथांचा सखा.

Modern application

1. When you finally feel "there is nothing more I must do." Not laziness — the wise person's कृत्य करूं सरलें: the fundamental task of life (knowing the Self) is accomplished, and the frantic "must" quiets. Notice if you have ever tasted even a minute of that.
2. When the giver of such freedom is the friend of the helpless. The one who hands you "nothing-left-to-do" is named अनाथांचा सखा — companion of exactly those with no other refuge. The deepest help comes to the most resourceless, not the most accomplished.
3. When you recognize who has been the friend of your helplessness. Behind a teaching that set you free, name the सखा — the friend who stood by you when you had no other recourse. Gratitude locates the giver.

Sādhanā

Today, recall one time you were genuinely helpless — anātha, with no other recourse — and someone or something stood by you. Name that "friend of the helpless," silently, once, with thanks. If it was a person, consider telling them today.

Arc

15.588 names Kṛṣṇa, friend of the helpless, as the speaker; 15.589 pivots to the outer frame — that nectar-speech, brimming over in Pārtha, reached Sañjaya by Vyāsa's grace.

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Ovi 15.589

Original (Marathi): तें श्रीकृष्णवचनामृत । पार्थीं भरोनि असे वोसंडत । मग व्यासकृपा प्राप्त । संजयासी ॥५८९॥ Voice: jnaneshvar-teacher (third-person narration of the Gītā's transmission-frame; no first-person dialogue)

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
तें श्रीकृष्णवचनामृत	that nectar of Śrī-Kṛṣṇa's speech (vacanāmṛta)
पार्थीं भरोनि असे वोसंडत	brimming over and overflowing in Pārtha
मग व्यासकृपा प्राप्त	then, by the grace of Vyāsa, attained
संजयासी	to Sañjaya

Literal translation

English: That nectar of Śrī Kṛṣṇa's speech, brimming over and overflowing in Pārtha — then, by Vyāsa's grace, reached Sañjaya.

मराठी (आधुनिक): ते श्रीकृष्णाच्या वचनांचं अमृत, अर्जुनात भरून ओसंडून वाहत होतं — मग व्यासांच्या कृपेनं ते संजयाला प्राप्त झालं.

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
Kṛṣṇa's word-nectar brimming over (वोसंडत) in Pārtha and overflowing to Sañjaya	The teaching is so abundant it cannot be contained in the first recipient; the overflow itself reaches the next	A gift so full that it spills past the one it was given to and blesses bystanders — transmission by overflow

Metaphor-family: overflowing-vessel (नक्षेप/अमृत brimming over). The nectar exceeds its first container and so reaches a second.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

• Internal: Developed-further into 15.590 — Sañjaya now offers the overflow for blind Dhṛtarāṣṭra to drink.
• Tukaram parallel: (none specific to this ovi)
• Source citation: Mahābhārata, Bhīṣma-parva (Gītā frame) — echo. Sañjaya narrates the Kṛṣṇa-Arjuna dialogue to Dhṛtarāṣṭra by the divya-cakṣus boon Vyāsa granted him; no precise śloka-number is asserted because the boon belongs to the frame-chapters, not BG-15's text.

Modern application

1. When a gift overflows its first recipient and reaches you. You received something — a teaching, a kindness — only because it was so full in someone else that it spilled to you. Recognize the overflow you've benefited from.
2. When abundance, not scarcity, is the mode of transmission. The nectar reaches Sañjaya not by being divided but by brimming over (वोसंडत). The best things multiply by overflow; giving them away doesn't diminish the source.
3. When grace mediates what merit could not reach. Sañjaya gets the nectar "by Vyāsa's grace" (व्यासकृपा), not by his own qualification. Some of the best you've received came through grace and a mediator, not through deserving it directly.

Sādhanā

Today, trace one good thing in your life back to its overflow: who was so full of this that it spilled to me? Name the original vessel and the mediator (the "Vyāsa") who carried it. Silently thank both.

Arc

15.589 sends the nectar to Sañjaya by Vyāsa's grace; 15.590 has Sañjaya offer it for blind Dhṛtarāṣṭra to drink, so his living-grief is not made unbearable.

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Ovi 15.590

Original (Marathi): तो धृतराष्ट्र राया । सूतसे पान करावया । म्हणौनि जीवितांतु तया । नोहेचि भारी ॥५९०॥ Voice: jnaneshvar-teacher (third-person narration of the Sañjaya-Dhṛtarāṣṭra frame)

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
तो धृतराष्ट्र राया	that King Dhṛtarāṣṭra
सूतसे पान करावया	the sūta (Sañjaya) offers [it] for [him] to drink
म्हणौनि जीवितांतु तया	so that, amid his living-death (jīvitānta)
नोहेचि भारी	it is not made too heavy / unbearable

Literal translation

English: For King Dhṛtarāṣṭra to drink, the sūta [Sañjaya] offers it — so that, amid his living-death, the burden is not made unbearable.

मराठी (आधुनिक): त्या धृतराष्ट्र राजाला प्राशन करायला सूत (संजय) ते देत आहे — म्हणजे त्याच्या जिवंतपणीच्या मरणतुल्य शोकात ते ओझं असह्य होऊ नये.

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
Sañjaya pouring the speech-nectar for the blind king to drink	Even the doomed, grieving, "spiritually blind" one is offered the consolation of the teaching — so his living-death is not crushing	The hard truth delivered with mercy, so that even the one who cannot really see is given something bearable to hold

Metaphor-family: drinking-the-nectar (नक्षेप-पान), continued from 15.589's overflow.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

• Internal: (none confidently identified beyond the linear frame-chain)
• Tukaram parallel: (none specific to this ovi)
• Source citation: Mahābhārata, Bhīṣma-parva (Gītā frame) — echo. The Sañjaya-to-Dhṛtarāṣṭra narration; अंधु/धृतराष्ट्र is the blind king. No internal BG śloka-number is claimed since this belongs to the frame-narration.

Modern application

1. When you give a hard truth to someone barely able to bear it. Sañjaya offers the nectar so the burden isn't made unbearable — the same words can crush or console depending on how they're poured. Mercy is in the pouring.
2. When even the "blind" one deserves the offering. Dhṛtarāṣṭra cannot truly see, is on the losing side, is complicit — and he is still offered the nectar. No one is so compromised as to be excluded from the consolation of truth.
3. When grief has to be made survivable, not erased. The aim isn't to remove the king's living-death but to keep it from becoming भारी — unbearable. Sometimes the kindest goal is not to fix the grief but to make it carriable.

Sādhanā

Today, if you must deliver something heavy to someone (news, feedback, a truth), attend not just to what you say but to how you pour it — so that, amid their burden, it is not made भारी, unbearable. Choose one phrasing that adds mercy without subtracting truth.

Arc

15.590 offers the nectar to the blind king; 15.591 reflects that though one may begin hearing the Gītā as an unworthy listener, in the end the true dawn breaks well even for him.

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Ovi 15.591

Original (Marathi): एऱ्हवीं गीताश्रवण अवसरीं । आवडों लागतां अनधिकारी । परि सेखीं तेचि उजरी । पातला भली ॥५९१॥ Voice: jnaneshvar-teacher (general reflection on the Gītā's reach to the unworthy hearer)

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
एऱ्हवीं गीताश्रवण अवसरीं	ordinarily, at the occasion of hearing the Gītā
आवडों लागतां अनधिकारी	when the unworthy-one (anadhikārī) comes to relish it
परि सेखीं तेचि उजरी	yet in the end, that very dawn (ujarī)
पातला भली	broke / arrived well [for him]

Literal translation

English: Ordinarily, at the occasion of hearing the Gītā, even the unqualified one begins to relish it — and in the end, that very dawn breaks well for him too.

मराठी (आधुनिक): एरवी गीता ऐकण्याच्या प्रसंगी, अनधिकारी माणसालाही ती आवडू लागते — आणि शेवटी तीच पहाट त्याच्यासाठीही चांगली उगवते.

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
The dawn (उजरी) that finally breaks even for the unqualified hearer	The Gītā uplifts even the anadhikārī who merely begins to relish it — the night of delusion lifts for him too, in the end	The slow benefit that reaches even the casual, "unqualified" listener — the light that doesn't check your credentials

Metaphor-family: dawn/light-dispelling-darkness (a sunrise image of delusion lifting).

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

• Internal: Developed-further into 15.592 — the same delayed benefit imaged as milk poured on grapes, wasted-seeming but doubled at ripening.
• Tukaram parallel: (none specific to this ovi)
• Source citation: Bhagavad Gītā 15.20 — extends the buddhimān-fruit even to the unqualified hearer; anticipates the Dhṛtarāṣṭra example (15.592-593).

Modern application

1. When something good reaches you before you "qualify" for it. You came to a teaching unready, half-relishing — and the dawn broke for you anyway, in time. Grace doesn't wait for your credentials. Don't disqualify yourself from beginning.
2. When you'd write someone off as "not ready." The verse refuses that gatekeeping: even the अनधिकारी who merely starts to enjoy it arrives at the dawn. Be slower to decide who is too unqualified to begin.
3. When the benefit is delayed, not absent. सेखीं — in the end. The light may not break at the first hearing; the verse promises it arrives "well" later. Don't mistake a slow dawn for no dawn.

Sādhanā

Today, notice one area where you've held back from starting because you feel "not qualified enough." Begin anyway, in one tiny way — read one page, attend one session, ask one question. The dawn is promised even to the one who only begins to relish it.

Arc

15.591 claims the dawn breaks even for the unworthy hearer; 15.592 gives the image — milk poured on grapes seems wasted but shows doubled at ripening.

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Ovi 15.592

Original (Marathi): जेव्हां द्राक्षीं दूध घातलें । तेव्हां वायां गेलें गमलें । परी फळपाकीं दुणावलें । देखिजे जेवीं ॥५९२॥ Voice: jnaneshvar-teacher (the grape-and-milk ripening-image)

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
जेव्हां द्राक्षीं दूध घातलें	when milk was poured onto the grapevine
तेव्हां वायां गेलें गमलें	then it seemed to have gone to waste
परी फळपाकीं दुणावलें	but at fruit-ripening, doubled
देखिजे जेवीं	it is seen, just so

Literal translation

English: When milk is poured onto the grapevine, at the time it seems wasted — but at the ripening of the fruit it is seen returned, doubled.

मराठी (आधुनिक): द्राक्षवेलीला दूध घातलं, तेव्हा ते फुकट गेल्यासारखं वाटतं — पण फळं पिकल्यावर ते दुप्पट होऊन दिसतं, अगदी तसंच.

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
Milk fed to the vine, seemingly wasted, returning doubled in the ripened fruit	The Gītā's benefit to the unworthy hearer is invisible at the moment of hearing and multiplied at maturation	The investment whose payoff is hidden at the time and compounded much later — the seed of an effort that looked wasted

Metaphor-family: agriculture/ripening (फळपाक). A hidden-now, multiplied-later image; cousin to the milk-and-curd/churning family but here about delayed fruition, not extraction.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

• Internal: Developed-further into 15.593 — the cash-out: so Hari's spoken letters, relayed by Sañjaya, made even blind Dhṛtarāṣṭra happy.
• Tukaram parallel: (none specific to this ovi)
• Source citation: Bhagavad Gītā 15.20 — amplifies how the Gītā's benefit works hiddenly in the unworthy hearer over time; the grape-and-milk ripening-image is wholly Jñāneśvar's.

Modern application

1. When effort looks wasted at the time it's spent. The milk on the vine seems poured away — and shows up doubled in the fruit. Some of your invisible labor (on a child, a practice, a relationship) is ripening out of sight. Wasted-seeming is not wasted.
2. When you judge a teaching by its immediate yield. Heard once, it may seem to do nothing (वायां गेलें). The verse counsels patience for the फळपाक — the ripening — before declaring it fruitless.
3. When delayed compounding is the real mechanism. दुणावलें — doubled. The return isn't just deferred, it's multiplied. Frame slow, thankless inputs as compounding, not as loss.

Sādhanā

Today, name one effort of yours that currently "seems wasted" — pouring in with no visible return. Instead of abandoning it, mark a date a few months out and write: check at fruit-ripening. Give it the chance the grapevine gets.

Arc

15.592 gives the ripening-image; 15.593 cashes it out in the frame — so Hari's letters, relayed reverently by Sañjaya, made even the blind one happy at that moment.

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Ovi 15.593

Original (Marathi): तैसी श्रीहरीवक्त्रींचीं अक्षरें । संजयें सांगितलीं आदरें । तिहीं अंधु तोही अवसरें । सुखिया जाला ॥५९३॥ Voice: jnaneshvar-teacher (the frame-payoff; third-person narration of Sañjaya and Dhṛtarāṣṭra)

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
तैसी श्रीहरीवक्त्रींचीं अक्षरें	so, the letters from Śrī-Hari's mouth (vaktra)
संजयें सांगितलीं आदरें	told by Sañjaya with reverence (ādara)
तिहीं अंधु तोही अवसरें	by them, that blind one too, at that occasion
सुखिया जाला	was made happy

Literal translation

English: Just so, the letters from Śrī Hari's mouth, related reverently by Sañjaya — by them, even that blind one, at that very occasion, was made happy.

मराठी (आधुनिक): अगदी तसंच, श्रीहरीच्या मुखातली ती अक्षरं, संजयानं आदरानं सांगितली — त्यांच्यामुळे तो अंध (धृतराष्ट्र) देखील त्या प्रसंगी सुखी झाला.

Metaphor-unfold

No extended metaphor in this ovi. It is the literal cash-out of 15.592's ripening-image in the narrative (अंधु = the blind Dhṛtarāṣṭra made happy), not a fresh image.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

• Internal: Cashes out 15.592's grape-and-milk ripening-image; developed-further into 15.594 where the voice turns to Jñāneśvar's own Marathi rendering.
• Tukaram parallel: (none specific to this ovi)
• Source citation: Mahābhārata, Bhīṣma-parva (Gītā frame) — echo. अंधु ("the blind one") is Dhṛtarāṣṭra; the reverent relaying is Sañjaya's. No internal BG śloka-number, as this is frame-narration.

Modern application

1. When how something is relayed determines whether it lands. Sañjaya speaks आदरें — with reverence — and that reverence is part of why even the blind king is gladdened. The manner of transmission is not decoration; it carries the gift.
2. When even the "blind" are reached by faithfully-carried words. Dhṛtarāṣṭra cannot see and is on the wrong side — yet, at that occasion, he is made happy. Words carried with reverence reach across even a recipient's blindness.
3. When you are the relay, not the source. Sañjaya didn't author the nectar; he carried it faithfully and reverently. Most of the good you do is relaying someone else's gift well — and that is no small thing.

Sādhanā

Today, take one thing you need to pass on (a message, an instruction, a piece of praise) and relay it with deliberate आदर — reverence for both the content and the receiver. Notice whether the reverence itself changes how it lands.

Arc

15.593 closes the Sañjaya-frame; 15.594 turns the voice inward — Jñāneśvar names his own act: that same teaching, I have set forth in Marathi, by my own insight, as best I knew.

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Ovi 15.594

Original (Marathi): तेंचि मऱ्हाटेनि विन्यासें । मियां उन्मेषें ठसेंठोंबसें । जी जाणें नेणें तैसें । निरोपिलें ॥५९४॥ Voice: commentary-on-self (Jñāneśvar reflecting on his own act of composition; first-person मियां + निरोपिलें "I have set forth" + जी addressing his audience/guru, not Arjuna)

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
तेंचि मऱ्हाटेनि विन्यासें	that very [teaching], in a Marathi arrangement (vinyāsa)
मियां उन्मेषें ठसेंठोंबसें	by me, by my own insight (unmeṣa), roughly / awkwardly (ṭhasēmṭhōmbasē)
जी जाणें नेणें तैसें	O sir — knowing or not-knowing, just so
निरोपिलें	I have set it forth / declared it

Literal translation

English: That very same teaching, in a Marathi arrangement, by my own insight, clumsily — O sir, knowing or not-knowing, just as I could — I have set it forth.

मराठी (आधुनिक): तेच (कृष्णवचन) मराठी रचनेत, माझ्या स्वतःच्या उन्मेषानं, ओबडधोबडपणे — हे महाराज, कळत-नकळत, जसं जमलं तसं — मी मांडलं आहे.

Metaphor-unfold

No extended metaphor in this ovi. ठसेंठोंबसें ("rough, clumsy") is a self-deprecating idiom for his rendering, not a developed image.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

• Internal: Parallel-image with 15.583 — the उन्मेष (insight) named there of Kṛṣṇa's own source-insight is here claimed, humbly, as the poet's own insight by which he renders the Gītā.
• Tukaram parallel: (none specific to this ovi)
• Source citation: Bhagavad Gītā 15.20 — the commentary-on-self reflection on rendering the Gītā into Marathi; the जी (jī, "sir") addresses Jñāneśvar's audience/guru, marking the exit from the Kṛṣṇa-Arjuna dialogue into the poet's own voice.

Modern application

1. When you offer your own rough rendering of something far greater. Jñāneśvar — author of one of the supreme works of Marathi — calls his Gītā "clumsy, just as I could." The honest posture before great material is humility, not false modesty or inflation.
2. When "knowing or not-knowing, I did my best" is the right report. जाणें नेणें तैसें निरोपिलें. You don't have to certify mastery to offer your work; you offer it as best you could and let it stand.
3. When the value is in the translation into a tongue people can receive. The whole achievement here is मऱ्हाटेनि — in Marathi, for those who couldn't reach the Sanskrit. Making the great thing reachable, even roughly, is itself the gift.

Sādhanā

Today, offer one piece of your own "rough rendering" — a draft, an explanation, an attempt — without prefacing it with excuses or inflating it. Say plainly, inwardly: knowing or not-knowing, this is as I could. Let it stand as an honest offering.

Arc

15.594 names his Marathi rendering as humble; 15.595 defends it with the marigold-and-mirror image — though the flower in a mirror adds nothing special, the bees still carry off its fragrance.

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Ovi 15.595

Original (Marathi): सेवंतीये अरिसि कांहीं । आंग पाहतां विशेषु नाहीं । परी सौरभ्य नेलें तिहीं । भ्रमरीं जाणिजे ॥५९५॥ Voice: commentary-on-self (the poet defending his rendering with the mirror-flower image)

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
सेवंतीये अरिसि कांहीं	the marigold (sevantī) in a mirror, somewhat
आंग पाहतां विशेषु नाहीं	looking at its body, there is nothing special
परी सौरभ्य नेलें तिहीं	yet the fragrance (saurabhya) was carried off by them
भ्रमरीं जाणिजे	by the bees — know this

Literal translation

English: Looking at a marigold in a mirror, its body shows nothing special — yet its fragrance is carried off by the bees; know it so.

मराठी (आधुनिक): आरशातल्या सेवंतीच्या फुलाचं नुसतं अंग पाहिलं तर विशेष काही नाही — पण तिचा सुगंध मात्र भ्रमरांनी नेला, हे जाणून घ्या.

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
A marigold seen in a mirror — its body adding nothing special	His Marathi rendering is, as form, "only a reflection" of the original Gītā — adding nothing of its own bulk	The translation/commentary that, as a thing in itself, looks like a mere copy
Yet the bees carry off its fragrance	The real essence (the meaning, the saurabhya) still passes through the rendering to those who seek it	The copy through which the original's living essence still reaches the seeker — the reflection carries the scent

Metaphor-family: mirror-reflection + bee-and-fragrance (returning to the saurabhya/scent-essence of 15.571). His humble rendering is a mirror-flower whose real fragrance still reaches the seekers.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

• Internal:
• Parallel-image (ring) with 15.571 — the सौरभ्य (fragrance) carried by bees here echoes the उपनिषदां सौरभ्य of 15.571; the cluster nearly closes on the same scent-essence image it opened with.
• Tukaram parallel: (none specific to this ovi)
• Source citation: Bhagavad Gītā 15.20 — the commentary-on-self defense of his rendering; the mirror-flower / bee-fragrance image is wholly Jñāneśvar's.

Modern application

1. When your work is "only a reflection" and still carries the real thing. A translation, a cover, an explanation may add nothing as an object — yet the original's essence passes through it to people who couldn't reach the source. Don't undervalue the mirror that carries the scent.
2. When the essence travels even if the form is humble. The bees don't take the body of the flower; they take its fragrance. Aim to be the kind of vessel through which the essence reaches others, not the kind that hoards the form.
3. When you measure your offering by the wrong thing. Looking at the "body" (the form), there's विशेषु नाहीं — nothing special. The right measure is whether the fragrance got carried off — whether the meaning reached someone.

Sādhanā

Today, take one "reflection-work" of yours (a summary, a translation, a re-telling) and stop appraising its form. Ask the only question that matters: did the fragrance reach anyone? If one person got the essence through it, it did its work. Let that be enough.

Arc

15.595 defends the rendering as fragrance-bearing; 15.596 asks the reader to take the well-formed meaning and give the lack back to him — his not-knowing is itself a child's natural form.

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Ovi 15.596

Original (Marathi): तैसें घडतें प्रमेय घेइजे । उणें तें मज देइजे । जें नेणणें हेंचि सहजें । रूप कीं बाळा ॥५९६॥ Voice: commentary-on-self (the poet's self-effacing plea to the reader)

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
तैसें घडतें प्रमेय घेइजे	so, take the well-formed meaning (prameya)
उणें तें मज देइजे	the deficiency (the "less"), give that to me
जें नेणणें हेंचि सहजें	for this not-knowing is, naturally
रूप कीं बाळा	the [very] form — of a child

Literal translation

English: So take the well-formed meaning, and give the deficiency back to me — for this not-knowing is simply my natural form, as it is a child's.

मराठी (आधुनिक): तर जे चांगलं घडलं ते प्रमेय घ्या, आणि जे उणं आहे ते मला परत द्या — कारण हे नेणतेपण म्हणजे माझं सहज रूपच आहे, जसं ते बाळाचं असतं.

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
Not-knowing as a child's own natural form (बाळाचें रूप)	His deficiencies are not flaws to be hidden but the artless nature of one offering as a child does	The maker who owns their limitations as natural, not shameful — offering imperfect work without defensiveness

Metaphor-family: child (बाळ) — introduces the parent-child tenderness developed in 15.597-598.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

• Internal: Developed-further into 15.597 — the child-image extended: even an ignorant child fills its parents with uncontainable joy.
• Tukaram parallel: (none specific to this ovi)
• Source citation: Bhagavad Gītā 15.20 — the commentary-on-self plea; the child-image (बाळा) introduces the parent-child tenderness of the next two ovis.

Modern application

1. When you let others keep the good and you keep the lack. "Take the well-formed meaning; give the deficiency back to me." A generous way to offer work: credit the meaning to its source and own the flaws yourself, without shame.
2. When your limitations are simply your nature, not a failing. नेणणें हेंचि सहजें रूप — not-knowing as a child's natural form. Some of your "deficiency" is just being human-sized before something vast. Hold it as artlessness, not disgrace.
3. When offering imperfect work needs no defensiveness. A child doesn't apologize for being a child. Offer what you've made and let its lack be yours, openly — that openness is itself a kind of integrity.

Sādhanā

Today, when you share something imperfect, practice one sentence of clean ownership: take what's useful; the gaps are mine. Say it without the long apology or the defensive over-explaining. Own the lack as a child owns its smallness — naturally.

Arc

15.596 likens his not-knowing to a child's artlessness; 15.597 extends it — even an ignorant child, seen by its parents, fills them with uncontainable joy.

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Ovi 15.597

Original (Marathi): तरी नेणतें जऱ्ही होये । तऱ्ही देखोनि बाप कीं माये । हर्ष केंहि न समाये । चोज करिती ॥५९७॥ Voice: commentary-on-self (the parent-child tenderness grounding his plea to the saints)

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
तरी नेणतें जऱ्ही होये	even if it be unknowing / ignorant
तऱ्ही देखोनि बाप कीं माये	still, seeing it, the father and mother
हर्ष केंहि न समाये	their joy cannot be contained anywhere
चोज करिती	they make much of it / fondly admire it

Literal translation

English: Even if the child be ignorant, still — seeing it — the father and mother cannot contain their joy; they make much of it.

मराठी (आधुनिक): बाळ कितीही नेणतं असलं, तरी त्याला पाहून बाप आणि आई — त्यांचा आनंद कुठंच मावत नाही; ते त्याचं कौतुक करतात.

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
Parents overflowing with uncontainable joy at their ignorant child	The saints (his true audience) will delight in his imperfect offering not despite but with the tenderness of parents for a child	The mentor or elder whose delight in your attempt has nothing to do with its polish — they love the making, not the mastery

Metaphor-family: parent-and-child (mother/father-and-child tenderness). The reader (the saints) cast as loving parents.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

• Internal: Developed-further into 15.598 — the bond named directly: the saints are my māhera (mother's-home) where I am pampered.
• Tukaram parallel: (none specific to this ovi)
• Source citation: Bhagavad Gītā 15.20 — the commentary-on-self plea grounded in parent-child tenderness; wholly Jñāneśvar's framing of how the saints will receive his work.

Modern application

1. When someone delights in your attempt regardless of its polish. A child's parents aren't grading the child. The people who love your making — not your mastery — are the audience to offer your rough work to. Find your "parents," not your critics.
2. When you fear your offering is too unskilled to give. The verse says the very unskillfulness can be what's cherished. To the right receiver, the attempt itself is the joy. Don't withhold the work because it isn't finished-enough.
3. When you are the one receiving someone's clumsy offering. Be the parent, not the examiner. Let your joy at their trying be uncontainable — चोज करिती, make much of it — before you ever weigh its flaws.

Sādhanā

Today, when someone offers you something imperfect (a child's drawing, a junior's draft, a friend's first attempt), respond first as a delighted parent, not a critic. Let your appreciation of the attempt be the first and loudest thing. Notice what that does to them.

Arc

15.597 gives the parents' uncontainable joy at the child; 15.598 names the bond directly — the saints are my mother's-home, where I am pampered, and the book is the pretext for that meeting.

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Ovi 15.598

Original (Marathi): तैसें संत माहेर माझें । तुम्ही मिनलिया मी लाडैजें । तेंचि ग्रंथाचेनि व्याजें । जाणिजो जी ॥५९८॥ Voice: commentary-on-self (the bond with the saints named directly; जी addresses the saints/audience)

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
तैसें संत माहेर माझें	so, the saints are my mother's-home (māhera)
तुम्ही मिनलिया मी लाडैजें	when you gather/meet, I am pampered (lāḍaijē)
तेंचि ग्रंथाचेनि व्याजें	that very thing, through the pretext (vyāja) of the book
जाणिजो जी	let it be known, O sir

Literal translation

English: So the saints are my mother's-home; when you gather, I am the pampered one — and that very thing, through the pretext of this book, let it be known, O sir.

मराठी (आधुनिक): तसे संत हेच माझं माहेर आहेत; तुम्ही एकत्र आलात की मी लाडावलो जातो — आणि तेच, या ग्रंथाच्या निमित्तानं, जाणून घ्या हो महाराज.

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
The saints as Jñāneśvar's māhera (a married woman's natal home, where she is indulged)	The company of saints is the home where he is utterly at ease, cherished and pampered like a daughter come home	The community where you are loved without performance — where you can be small and indulged, your true belonging
The book as the व्याज (pretext) for the meeting	The whole grand commentary is, underneath, just an occasion to be in the company of the saints	The grand project that is secretly an excuse to be among the people you love

Metaphor-family: māhera (mother's-natal-home) — the warmest image of belonging in Marathi culture; the reader-saints as his natal family.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi.

Cross-references

• Internal: Developed-further into 15.599 — the closing turn from the saints (his māhera) to the guru Nivṛttināth, to whom the whole "worship of words" is offered.
• Tukaram parallel: (none specific to this ovi)
• Source citation: Bhagavad Gītā 15.20 — the commentary-on-self naming of the saints as his māhera; जी addresses the saints/audience. The book is named the व्याज (pretext) for communion with the saints.

Modern application

1. When a community is the place you are loved without performing. माहेर — the home where you are pampered, not judged. Name the people among whom you don't have to achieve anything to be cherished. That belonging is worth more than the achievement.
2. When the "real reason" for your work is secretly the company it brings. The grand book is "just the pretext" for being among the saints. Much of what you build is, underneath, an excuse to be near the people you love. Honor that hidden motive; it's a good one.
3. When you let yourself be the pampered one, not always the provider. लाडैजें — I am indulged. Even the great teacher lets himself be a cherished child among the saints. Allow yourself, sometimes, to be received and indulged rather than always the one who gives.

Sādhanā

Today, name your माहेर — the one circle where you are loved without having to perform. If you can, go there (call, visit, message) for no reason except to be among them. Let the "work-reason" be a pretext. Be, for a while, the pampered one.

Arc

15.598 names the saints as his māhera and the book as the pretext; 15.599 closes the chapter with the signature — the world-souled master Śrī Nivṛttirāja, attend to this offering of words, says Jñānadeva.

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Ovi 15.599

Original (Marathi): आतां विश्वात्मकु हा माझा । स्वामी श्रीनिवृत्तिराजा । तो अवधारू वाक पूजा । ज्ञानदेवो म्हणे ॥५९९॥ Voice: nivrittinath-citation (the signature-invocation of the guru Nivṛttināth; ज्ञानदेवो म्हणे "Jñānadeva says")

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
आतां विश्वात्मकु हा माझा	now this world-souled (viśvātmaka) [one], my
स्वामी श्रीनिवृत्तिराजा	master, Śrī Nivṛttirāja (Nivṛttināth)
तो अवधारू वाक पूजा	may he attend to / accept this worship-of-speech (vāk-pūjā)
ज्ञानदेवो म्हणे	says Jñānadeva

Literal translation

English: Now may this world-souled master of mine, Śrī Nivṛttirāja, attend to this worship offered in words — so says Jñānadeva.

मराठी (आधुनिक): आता हा माझा विश्वात्मक स्वामी, श्रीनिवृत्तिराज — तो या वाणीच्या पूजेचा स्वीकार करो, असं ज्ञानदेव म्हणतो.

Metaphor-unfold

Literal image	Philosophical referent	Modern equivalent
The whole chapter offered as a वाक पूजा (worship made of words)	The act of composition is itself an act of worship, laid at the guru's feet	The work offered not as a product but as devotion — the making is the prayer

Metaphor-family: worship/offering (पूजा) — the book as a pūjā of words. No further unfolding needed; the image is the act of dedication itself.

Nāth-yogic layer

No Nāth-yogic referent in this ovi. विश्वात्मक ("world-souled") names the guru as the all-pervading Self — a Vedāntic/devotional honorific for Nivṛttināth, not a specific cakra/kuṇḍalinī reference. (Nivṛttināth is the head of Jñāneśvar's Nāth lineage, but this ovi makes a dedicatory invocation, not a yogic-process claim.)

Cross-references

• Internal: Closes the 29-ovi cluster and chapter 15; no further internal link.
• Tukaram parallel: (none specific to this ovi)
• Source citation: Bhagavad Gītā 15.20 (colophon-signature) — the signature-colophon of chapter 15: the guru Nivṛttināth named विश्वात्मकु (world-souled) and स्वामी (master); the chapter offered as वाक पूजा (a worship of words). ज्ञानदेवो म्हणे is Jñāneśvar's own signature-line.

Modern application

1. When you offer your finished work as a dedication, not a possession. Jñāneśvar ends not by claiming the commentary but by offering it — a वाक पूजा laid at his teacher's feet. Consider ending your work by dedicating it to whoever made it possible, rather than signing it as yours.
2. When the making itself was the worship. The chapter is a "pūjā of words" — the labor was the devotion all along. Reframe one piece of your work as an offering: the doing of it was the prayer, the product is just what's left on the altar.
3. When you name the one whose all-pervading presence carried the work. विश्वात्मकु — the world-souled master. Behind a long work there is often one person whose spirit pervaded the whole of it. Name them at the end; let the last word be gratitude, not claim.

Sādhanā

Today, finish one thing — even small — and instead of just completing it, dedicate it: silently or in writing, offer it to the one person (or the source) that made it possible. Let the last gesture of the work be an offering, not a signature.

Arc

15.599 closes chapter 15 with the dedication of the whole "worship of words" to Nivṛttināth; the colophon seals adhyāya 15 (Puruṣottama-yoga), and the teaching now turns, in the next chapter, to the catalog of divine and demoniac dispositions (adhyāya 16, Daivāsura-sampad-vibhāga).

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Cluster summary

Core teaching: Kṛṣṇa seals the fifteenth chapter by declaring the whole teaching the most-secret śāstra (guhyatamam), whose mere understanding makes one wise and accomplished (buddhimān + kṛtakṛtya) — and Jñāneśvar does not gloss the line so much as let it bloom into a 29-ovi ecstatic colophon. He exalts the Gītā as the churned butter of all sacred sound (15.572), the seventeenth-nectar of the bliss-moon (15.573), Kṛṣṇa's own pativratā (15.576) and hidden-treasure deposited in the purified Arjuna (15.578-582), the saṃsāra-conquering weapon (15.577) and the amṛta-river that cures delusion and confers deathlessness (15.584); and he unfolds kṛtakṛtya precisely — action, having repaid the debt of its own existence, dissolves and is crowned by the knowledge that tops the temple-of-action (15.586-588). The cluster then steps out to the transmission-frame (Sañjaya relaying the nectar to blind Dhṛtarāṣṭra by Vyāsa's grace, 15.589-593), and finally to Jñāneśvar's own voice — his clumsy-but-fragrant Marathi rendering offered to the saints who are his māhera (15.594-598) — closing with the dedication of the whole "worship of words" to his guru Nivṛttināth (15.599).

Chapter arc position: BG-15.20 is the sealing-verse of adhyāya 15 (Puruṣottama-yoga), spoken after the aśvattha-tree of saṃsāra (BG-15.1-4) and the kṣara-akṣara-puruṣottama doctrine (BG-15.16-19). It pairs the secrecy-claim (guhyatamam) with the fruit-claim (buddhimān + kṛtakṛtya), doubly addressing the purified Arjuna (anagha, bhārata). The 29 ovis form a colophon, not a line-gloss: praise-of-the-Gītā and the unfolding of kṛtakṛtya (15.571-588), the Sañjaya-Dhṛtarāṣṭra transmission-frame (15.589-593), Jñāneśvar's commentary-on-self about his Marathi rendering (15.594-598), and the closing signature to Nivṛttināth (15.599) — the chapter sealed with the om-tat-sat colophon.

Connects to the next śloka: Chapter 15 ends here. The next cluster opens adhyāya 16 (Daivāsura-sampad-vibhāga, BG-16.1) — Kṛṣṇa turning from the sealed Puruṣottama-doctrine to the inventory of divine (daivī) and demoniac (āsurī) dispositions. The kṛtakṛtya-wise person of 15.20 stands ready to be set against the catalog of the divine endowment that the sixteenth chapter will enumerate.