Gita Bhashya -Sankara 100

Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya

(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)

CHAPTER -3

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Also from the following texts :-

"Give up virtue and give up vice; give up both truth and untruth. Having given up both truth and untruth, give up that[1] by which you give them up"[2]

"Seeing samsāra (worldly life) to be worthless, and betaking themselves to supreme non-attachment, they renounce without marrying, intent on discerning the real truth.

"(Brhaspati to Kaca). Śuka teaches:

"Man gets bound by action; and gets released through Knowledge. Therefore, far-seeing ascetics do not engage in action".[3]

Here also (in the Bhagavad-Gltā, V-13) - "Having renounced all actions by the mind." etc.

Also because moksa is not a result to be achieved by action, action is of no use for the seeker of moksa.

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References and Context

  1. The feeling that T am giving up'. (A)
  2. M.B. - Ś- 329-40; 331-41
  3. M.B. - "Ś- 243-7