Bhagavad Gita -Madhvacharya 296

Bhagavad Gita -Sri Madhvacharya

(Bhashya and Tatparya Nirnaya)

Chapter 13 Kshetra-kshetraaajnyavibhaga Yoga 8 - 12. Absence of pride, absence of deceit, non-violence, compassion, righteousness, service to the Teacher, purity, steadfastness, self control, distaste towards the objects of senses, renunciation and similarly absence of ego-sense, perception of the defect from birth, death, old age, disease, sorrow, absence attachment in relation to son, wife, home and the rest, ever being equipoise. in the desirable and the undesirable ones, unswerving equanimity and devoted attachment towards Me, preferring secluded place far from the assembled people, constancy in the knowledge of the Supreme Self, perception of the knowledge of the basic principles, - these are said to be the knowledge and all else to be no-knowledge. Bhashya :- Having spoken about the Lord and his energizing powers, Sri Krishna now speaks the means of achieving the same. Being oneself of little intelligence, showing as though intelligent is arrogance. „Knowing one's incapability and at the same time flaunting one's greatness is arrogance‟ thus having been declared. आर्जवन् righteousness means consistency in one's thoughts, speech and actions. शक्ति: means comradeship; when it matures it becomes attachment. Receptivity to the Wisdom of the basic principles is through experience, reflection of the scriptural statements.