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Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya
(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)
CHAPTER -18
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70. And he who will study this sacred dialogue of ours, by him shall I have been worshipped by the yajfta of knowledge; such is My belief. And he, who will study, learn, this sacred work, which docs not deviate from dharma, in the form of a dialogue of ours,-by him this will be effected: I shall have been worshipped by the yajña of knowledge: of the four kinds of yajña, namely, Vidhi (ritual), Japa (prayer uttered in loud voice), Upārhśu (prayer uttered in whisper), and Mfmasa (prayer offered with the mind), jñāna-yajBa (the yajña of knowledge) comes under the head of Mānasti, and is therefore the highest. Thus the study of the Gilū-sāstra is extolled as jñāna-yajña. Or, this may be regarded, as ordaining the result (which would follow from the act of studying this Śāstra), namely, that it would produce an effect equal to that of the yajña of knowledge, of the contemplation of a deity (Dcvata) and the like. By this study, I shall have been worshipped (through the yajfla of knowledge); Such is My belief, judgment. |
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