Contents
Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya
(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)
CHAPTER -4
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41. With work renounced by yoga and doubts rent asunder by Knowledge, 0 Dhanañjaya, actions do not bind him who is poised in the Self. With work renounced by yoga: By yoga which consists in the realisation of the supreme Truth, all actions-dharma and adharma-are renounced by him who sees the supreme Truth. How is he able to do so? Because his doubts have been rent asunder by Knowledge, the tealisation of the identity of the Self with Iśvara. He, who has thus renounced work by yoga, is poised in the Self, is never swerving from his Self. Him, actions, which he sees (merely) as the movements of the gunas, do not bind, do not bring about any results, bad or others[1], O Dhanañjaya Because he who, by practising karma-yoga gets his impurities destroyed and thereby obtains Knowledge, and then, having all his doubts rent asunder by that Knowledge, is not boumd by actions-just because all his actions have been burnt in the fire of Knowledge; and because also he who entertains doubts regard ing Knowledge (jñāna) and the performance of action (karmānusthanā)[2] gets ruined- |
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