Gita Bhashya -Sankara 218

Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya

(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)

CHAPTER -5

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Jñānena tu tad-ajñānam yesām nāiitam-ātmanah
Tesam-ādityavaj-jñānam prakāśayati tat-param

16. But they in whom that ignorance is destroyedby Knowledge of the Self, for them that Knowledgeof theirs reveals the Supreme, like the sun (revealingobjects).

But they, those men, in whom that ignorance, enveloped bywhich beings become deluded, is destroyed by Knowledge of theSelf, gets removed by the discriminative understanding concerningthe Self, for them, that Knowledge of theirs reveals the SupremeTruth, the Whole, Knowable, Real, like the sun, who illuminatesthe whole aggregate of visible objects.

On the Supreme being revealed by Knowledge,

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