Gyaneshwari 6

Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar

Chapter-1 Despondency of Arjuna I shall speak if you give me power to speak, even as the puppet can move only on the strength of the string. In a way I am favoured, instructed and decorated by holy men like you in a marvelous way. Then his Guru said, “Enough, you don’t have to tell us all this. Be quick and give your thought to the work in hand.” After hearing these words, Jnanadeva, disciple of Nivritti, joyfully said, “Now listen leisurely to what I say.” Dhritarashtra said: In the holy plain of Kurukshetra have gathered eager for battle, mine and Pandu’s sons; what did they do, O Sanjaya? Dhritarashtra, blinded by his filial affection, asked Sanjaya, “Tell me the news of Kurukshetra (81-85). To that Holy Land, Pandu’s sons and mine have gone in order to wage a war; what they have been doing all this while, tell me all very quickly.”