Visit to the Temple on the site of Jnanesvara’s Samadhi at Alandi, Pune. Gregoire: Dnyaneshwar was the foundation. Of course, what was meant at that time was to establish dharma above all, was not to give realisation, but establish dharma by expressing human values in the perspective of the spiritual absolute, so that should every human behaviour should be kept in check by the spiritual finality. Now, Saint Dnyaneshwar is an absolutely extraordinary person. He died at the age of about 21 years old and after having left behind him a book which is called Jnāneshvari, who is basically a commentary of the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit. He – I want to go quickly through the family story, but again, they were really treated as outcasts because his father had left his wife to take to Sanyaza and his guru sent him back to married life. So after that, the Brahmins didn’t want at all to have anything to do with a Brahmin who had gone back to family life. So they were treated like dirt by all the Brahmins, but they were, I don’t know, three brothers and two sisters, and they were all very highly realised souls, and actually his brother got his initiation and gave it to him. Now, there are many miracles in the life of Dnyaneshwar, which are famous. For instance, while he was arguing with a couple of learned pendants saying that God is everywhere and in everything, then they made a fool out Read More …