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Bhagavad Gita -Sri Madhvacharya
(Bhashya and Tatparya Nirnaya)
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Chapter 2
Sankhya Yoga
In normal parlance, due to their special nature, they (the delivered souls) are spoken as being 'beyond pleasures, beyond bliss' (or) 'outside the influence of pain and pleasures" etc. Similarly from the view-point of practice also they are said to have no body. Even in scriptures, (it is said), 'it gets destroyed, and therefore it is known as SarIr. But the bodies (of the liberated souls) do not get destroyed in that manner. 'Liberated souls neither are born on Creation nor cease on Dissolution', on account of such statements. (But) because of the similarity (of the limbs etc.), it is normal to use such words. “Without bodies, without eating, without any activity, full of fragrance”, “Dwellers of Vaikuntha without having bodies and senses”. (such words used by Narada to describe liberated souls is only to show that they do not have gross body. Therefore, the liberated souls should be understood as not possessing gross body. For them there exists none other qualified liberation. “What is use of speaking more, so long as he does go to the Sveta Dwipa? One is not Yogi till he is delivered, according to the scriptures”, other forms of deliverance having been negated in Aaditya Puraana. Even those (like Sishupala) attaining the divine status go finally to that place (Shveta Dwipa), but to dwell there, special attributes are required. In reply to Yudhisthira's query, all other states of deliverance have been rejected. Similarity (with the Lord) is the accepted norm. Even as acquiring human body one enjoys through that body even so 9in liberation one enjoys pleasures , thus in Narayanaashtaakshara Kalpa. |
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