Gita Bhashya -Sankara 149

Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya

(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)

CHAPTER -4

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Janma karma ca me divyam-evam yo vetti tattvatah
Tyaktvā deham punar janma naiti mam-eti so(a)rjuna

9. My divine birth and action, who knows thus, truly, on leaving the body he is not born again: he attains to Me, 0 Arjuna.

My divine, not derived from nature (aprākrtam) and special to Iśvara, birth, of illusory form,[1] and action, such as protection of the good, who knows thus, truly, in their true light, as stated, on leaving the body, i.e. this (the present) body, he is not born again, he does not get another birth: he attains to Me, conies to Me; he 's liberated, O Arjuna.

This path to salvation is not being laid just now, but has been (trodden) even in the past-

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References and Context

  1. Seec Introduction and not 15 and 16 thereto.