Gita Bhashya -Sankara 826

Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya

(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)

CHAPTER -18

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"But he who knows the Truth...., recognising that gunas (merely) act on gunas, does not become attached"[1]

"Havillg renounced all actions by the mind, rests"....

"The lenower of Truth, (being) centred (in the Self) should think, 'I do nothing...."[2], meaning that it is (only) the un-enhghtened man who thinks that he is the agent;

"For the muni who wishes to attain to yoga, work is said to be the means; for the same person when he has attained to yoga, inaction (śama) is said to be the means"[3];

"Noble indeed are all these (three), though not illumined; but the wise man I regard as My very Self"[4];

"The un-enlightened who perform actions, desiring desires, they come and go".[5];

"Those persons who meditate on Me as non-separate, everdevoted", worship (Me) the Self, pure as the ākāśa.[6];

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References and Context

  1. (111.28)
  2. (V.8)
  3. (VI.3)
  4. (VII. 18)
  5. (IX.21)
  6. (IX.22)