Contents
Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya
(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)
CHAPTER -15
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Objection:- Where is the possibility of (there being) any portion (or aspect) of the Supreme Self, Who is indivisible? Be cause, if He be with parts, He must suffer destruction (ruin) on the separation of parts. Reply:- This objection is not valid; for, what is imaginarily represented as a portion (amśa) is only an aspect (of the Self) limited by the upādhi set up by avidyā. This truth has been explained at length in the Chapter on the ksetra[1][2]. [3]How that jiva, imaginarily represented as a portion of My self, takes birth in a body and how he passes out of it, will now be stated. (He, the jiva, does so,) drawing, i.e. attracting to himself, the (five) senses, hearing and the rest, with mind for the sixth, abid ing in Prakrti, in their natural places such as the orifice of the ear. |
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References and Context
- ↑ XIII
- ↑ It has been established there that the jiva is in truth not a portion of, but that he is the same as, the Supreme Self. (A)
- ↑ The doubt that, if the jiva is only imagined as a portion of the Supreme Self and is in fact identical with the Supreme Self there cannot be subjection to satksāra or passing out of it for him, is now answered. (A)