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Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya
(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)
CHAPTER -4
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26. Others offer hearing and other senses as sacrifice in the fires of control; (while) others offer sound and other sense-objects as sacrifice in the fires of the senses. Other yogins offer hearing and other senses as sacrifice in the fires of control. As there is separate control with respect to each sense, the plural (" fires") has been used. Controls (of the several senses) are themselves the fires. The meaning is that they are solely occupied in the control of their senses[1]. (While) others offer sound and other sense-objects as sacrifice in the fires of the senses. The senses are themselves the fires; and into them they offer the Scrifice (of sense-objects): they regard the grasping by the senses, such as hearing, of such sense-objects as are not prohibited by scripture[2], as sacrifice. And- |
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