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Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya
(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)
CHAPTER -5
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17. Those who have their intellect absorbed in That, whose Self is That, whose steadfastness is in That, whose supreme goal is That,-their impurities cleans ed by Knowledge, they attain to Non-return. Those who have their intellect absorbed in That, whose Self is That, i.e. who realise that the Supreme Brahman is verily their Self, whose steadfastness is in That, whose resoluteness of purpose is directed towards That, i.e. renouncing all actions, who abide in Brahman alone, whose supreme goal is That, for whom Brahman becomes the supreme resort, that is to say, they delight solely in the Self;- they, whose ignorance (about the Self) has been destroyed by Knowledge-, their impurities cleansed by Knowledge, for whom sins and other blemishes giving rise to transmigratory existence (sarhsāra) have been destroyed by the Knowledge described aboveg they, the renouncers (" yatis "), attain to Non-return, non-connec tion with a new body any more (after the fall of their present body in death). Now, the Lord proceeds to state how the wise men, whose ignorance has been destroyed by the Knowledge of the Self, see the Truth: |
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