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Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya
(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)
CHAPTER -3
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Renouncing, depositing, all actions in Me, Vāsudeva, the Supreme Lord, the Omniscient, the Self of all, with mind centred on the self with the clear understanding, "I am an agent, am acting for the Lord as His servant", and also, getting rid of hope, abandoning any expectation (of fruit), and selfishness, the idea of mine-ness[1], do you fight-free from (mental) fever, devoid of mental torment, grief[2]. This doctrine which has been taught with the authority therefor, namely that action should be engaged in, is exactly the truth[3]:
31. Those men who constantly practise this teachingof Mine full of śraddhā and without cavilling, they too are freed from work. Those men who constantly practise, follow, this teaching of Mine, full of sraddha[4], faith, and without cavilling, i.e. without finding fault it Me, Vāsudeva, the Guru (Teacher), they too who thus conduct themselves, are freed from work i.e. dharma and adharma[5]. |
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References and Context
- ↑ with regard to sons, brothers etc., engaged in the battle. (A)
- ↑ arising from the thought that by engaging in the battle you have to slay sons, brothers, etc. (A)
- ↑ It leads one, who follows it, to liberation. (A). This answers the query preceding verse 30.
- ↑ raddhā is faith in the teaching of Scripture, and of the Guru, concerning matters not (otherwise) manifest. (A)
- ↑ Merit and demerit, virtue and sin ; the subtle forms in which good and evil actions stand till the time comes to enjoy their fruits. (Sec note 32 ante ; also Com. on verse 33 following).