Bhagavad Gita -Madhvacharya 45

Bhagavad Gita -Sri Madhvacharya

(Bhashya and Tatparya Nirnaya)

Chapter 2 Sankhya Yoga By whom the gods are born and yet remains independent of them; all others are subservient to whom, that One (Sri Vishnu) alone is capable of granting the human values (Purushaartha). Therefore His adoration is meritorious act. Therefore, similar is the meaning of the word yauW the battle. For all the others, their bodies are such as would have their end. Because their bodies are of Nature (consisting of eight gross elements). Therefore, they being not independent they are not capable of killing (on their initiative). Since they are eternal they cannot be killed also. Therefore it is not wisdom to say he is killed or will kill etc. But the Lord has no death separating the body; because He was not born with association of the body; never like the Jiva. Therefore, He alone being Independent, is independently kilter of all the rest. As far as Jiva is concerned, even though his body is destroyed, his essential nature does not get destroyed; to that extent he is eternal. Therefore, when one knows the essential nature of the Lord as indestructible, as Independent and as the Creator of all, how can one think him as the killer or as being killed ? Like the clothes which get tom and old, even so one's body is similar due to old age etc.; seeing himself dependent in all circumstances, Jiva realizes his being not independent. Since there are no such variations in the body for the Lord, he is Independent. In the verse नैनन छिदन्ति - never is (he) cleaved - is possible to be shown by present example of human body, (because the subject for discussion here is the individual soul). Cleaving of the body of Lord appears only because of the effect of Illusion.