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The Genius of Dnyaneshwar
activity), ‘U’ for the idol’s potbelly, a reservoir of memories of which dreams are made and ‘M’ for the circular head where the cycle is complete and the brain is replenished after a rest. This is exactly what the Vedantic essay said about AUM and is used with great finesse by Dnyaneshwar. But he does not stop there. True to his school he remembers his Guru at this stage and narrates the following verse: Where these three letters gather The world of words is embraced To this seed of space and time I bow with Guru’s grace …16 AUM has two components— it is the seed of everything and also encompasses man’s world of knowledge. It is an expression of the spirit or Brahma and Dnyaneshwar admits that he can bow to AUM because of his Guru’s grace. 1. Vedant – the concluding portion of Vedic literature 2. post-facto – after the event