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Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya
(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)
CHAPTER -5
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10. He who does actions, resigning them to Brahman,forsaking attachment, is not soiled by evil, like untoa lotus leaf by water. He who does al! actions, resigning them to Brahman, depositing them in Tśvara, with the thought that he does them for His sake[1], as a servant does for his master, forsaking attachment even to such a result as moksa, is not soiled, bound, by evil, like unto a lotus-leaf by water[2]. The result of that action (performed in that mannerj can only be the purification of the mind (sattva-śuddhi) and nothing else; because:
11. Devotees in the path of Work perform action, merely by the body, mind, intellect and the senses, forsaking attachment, for the purification of the self. |
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