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Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya
(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)
CHAPTER -4
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31. Eating of the nectar, the remnant of yajña, they go to the Eternal Brahman. (Even) this world (i.e. good things of the world) is not for the nonperformer of yajfia; how then the other, O best of Kurus? Eating of the nectar, which is the remnant of yajna,-i.e. having performed the sacrifices mentioned above, they eat the remnants of the prescribed food, at intervals, in the prescribed manner. The food so eaten is called nectar ('amrta'-immortal); and eating it they go to the Eternal Brahman: If they are desirous of liberation (mumuksus), (they go to Brahman) in course of time[1]; and this has to be understood from the significance (of the word 'go' which implies proceeding step by step). (Even) the good things of this world, though universal for all living beings, are not for the non-performer of yajña, he who does not perform even one of the (several) sacrifices mentioned[2]. How then the other[3], which has to he attained through particular superior means, O best of Kurus? |
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References and Context
- ↑ i.e. after attaining Knowledge through purification of the heart (ciitafttddhl). The process of krama-mukti is here refeired to. (A) See Comon V.26 (and footnote 22 thercl for the difference between krama mukti and sadvo-mukti.
- ↑ That a man who does not perform any of the yajsas becomes sinful (and therefore, is denied the good things of even worldly life) is here pointed out. (A). Life in this world will not be happy for him; and on death he may not be reborn in this world (as a human being or otherwise) and may have lo go to hell; he will certainly neither go to heaven, nor attain moksa.
- ↑ "The other" means that which is other than worldly, i.e., the spiritual.