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Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya
(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)
CHAPTER -3
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42. They say the senses are superior; superior to the senses is mind; superior to the mind is the intellect; he who is superior to the intellect is He. They the wise, say that the senses, the five, hearing and the others, are superior as compared to the physical body, which is gross, external and circumscribed; they are superior by reason of their subtlely, internal situation and pervasiveness. So also, superior to the senses is mind (manas), characterised by volition and indecision. In the same way, superior to the mind is the intellect (buddhi), characterised by resolution. So also, he who is superior to the intellect, interior to all perceivable objects in clusive of the intellect, the embodied spirit (generally taken to be the individual, J'iva)—whom it has been stated—desire, resting in the senses and other places, deludes by veiling his wisdom, is He, the Witness of the intellect, the Supreme Self. |
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