Question

Write about personalities and their work in your own word.

Sant Dnyaneshwar

Answer 1

1. He was a great Sant of the Varkari movement. He gave the Varkari movement the prestige of a religion.
2. He showed a simple way of worship and conduct that could be followed easily by the common people.
3. His life was spent in extremely adverse conditions but he never lost the calm of his mind and never harboured bitterness.
4. He explains the meaning of the Sanskrit ‘Bhagvad Geeta’ in Marathi in ‘Bhavartha-deepika’ or ‘Dnyaneshwari’. The ‘Pasayadaan’ in Dnyaneshwari uplifts the mind.
5. He preached the importance of the path of devotion through his works and compositions, like the ‘Amrutanubhav’.
6. The poetic compositions of his brothers Sant Nivruttinath and Sant Sopandev and his sister Muktabai are also well known.