Contents
Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya
(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)
CHAPTER -18
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First, follows the three-fold difference in knowledge:
20. That by which one sees the One Indestructible Substance (Reality) in all beings, inseparate in the separated, know that Knowledge to be sattvie. That knowledge by which one sees the One Indestructible Substance,-'Bh'iva' (Substance) means 'Reality'-, the Reality, that is, the One Self, which cannot be reduced or changed, either in itself or in attributes, the eternally immutable (kūtastha), in all beings, from Avyakta down to unmoving objects; and sees that 'Self-Reality' inseparate, not different, in the separated, in the mutually different bodies; like space (ākāśa) it is constant, admitting of no difference; know that Knowledge, the direct perception of the non-dual Self, to be Sāttvic, to be the Right (Plenary) Knowledge. The dualistic systems of philosophy which are erroneous are rājasic and tamasic; consequently they cannot directly lead to the destruction of samsñra. |
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