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Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya
(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)
CHAPTER -4
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20. Forsaking the clinging to fruits of action, ever satisfied, depending on nothing,-though engaged in action, he does not do anything. Forsaking love of action and the clinging to the fruits of action, through the power of the Wisdom spoken of; ever satisfied, i.e. devoid of the desire for objects of the senses; depending on nothing, seeking no support (support is that, depending on which, one seeks to achieve an end in life); the meaning is: not depending on anything which is the means for attaining wished-for fruits, seen and unseen[1] As the wise man is possessed of the awareness of the actionless Self, the action performed by him is in reality non-action. By such a person, action with its accessories is simply to be renounced, because he has no use for it. Though this is the natural course of conduct, if it is not possible for him to get away from activity, on account of his wish to guide the world or to avoid the reproach of the virtuous,-such a person, though engaged in action as pre viously[2], he does not do anything, because he is possessed of the awareness of the action-less Self. |
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