Gita Bhashya -Sankara 349

Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya

(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)

CHAPTER -9

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"Vasudeva is all"[1];"

All this is the Self"[2];

"One only, without a second"[3]

-and nothing else (is the direct means), as stated in passages of the Śruti such as the following:

"Now those who understand differently from this[4] become subjects of another lord and attain to perishable worlds"[5].

(What I am going to tell you is) the most profound secret; it is to be superlatively guarded. What is it? Knowledge. Of what description? Combined with Realisation (vijñāna), personal experience[6], on knowing which, on obtaining which Knowledge. you shall be free from evil, the bondage of samsāra.

And it (that Knowledge) is

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References and Context

  1. ↑ VII-19
  2. ↑ Ch. VII.xxv.2
  3. ↑ Ch. Vl.ii. I
  4. ↑ ("this" refers to) the perception of advaita (that all this is the Sell.) (Ch. VII.xxv.2). (A)
  5. ↑ Ch.VII. xxv. 2
  6. ↑ intuitive (direct) perception (tiiiubhava-saksatkara). (A)

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1. Arjuna visada yogah (Yoga of the Dejection of Arjuna) 6
2. Saiukhya Yogah (Way of knowledge) 22
3. Karma Yogah (Way of action) 96
4. Jnana Karma Saninyasa Yogah (Way of renunciation of action in knowledge) 143
5. Karmasaninyasa Yogah (Way of renunciation of action) 195
6. Divyana Yogah (Way of meditation) 233
7. Saptamo (A) Dhyayah Jnana-Vijnana-yogah (Way of knowledge with realisation) 288
8. Taraka Brahma Yogah (Saving knowledge of Brahman) 319
9. Raja-Vidya Raja-Guhya Yogah (Yoga of kingly knowledge and kingly secret) 348
10. Vibhuti Yogah (Mode of Divine Glory) 385
11. Visvarapa Darsanam (Vision of the Universal Form) 428
12. Bhakti Yogah (Way of Devotion) 484
13. Prakrti-Purusa-Viveka-Yogah (Way of Discrimi­nating Matter and Spirit) 509
14. Guna-Traya-Vibhaga Yogah (The Way of Discriminating the Three Gunas) 589
15. Purusottama Yogah (Way to the Supreme Spirit) 621
16. Daivasura-Sampat-Vibhaga-Yogah (The mode of Dividing Divine and Demminiac Properties) 649
17. Sraddhaa-Traya-Vibhaga Yogah (The Mode of Division of the Three Kinds of Faith) 676
18. Moksa-Samnyasa Yogah (The Yoga of Libera­ tion in Renunciation) 707
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