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Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya
(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)
CHAPTER -6
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abandoning the attachment to the fruit of action, engages him self in karma-yoga for the purification of his mind, is also extolled as being a samnyasin and a yogin. It would also be unreasonable to hold that on: and the same declaration should praise the re nunciation of the attachment to the fruits of action and exclude the fourth order (samnyāsa)[1]. And the Lord does not deuy that the man without fire and without action-who is exactly the samtiyāsin - is a samnyasin and a yoki, as is well-known as settled by the Śruti, the Smrti, the Putānas, the Itihāsas and the Yogaśāstras. To preclude the fourth order would also contradict the Lord's own statements made in several places, such as: "Having renounced all actions by the mind, without at all acting, or causing to act"[2]; "Who is silent, content with anything, homeless, steadyminded"[3]; "That man, who abandoning all desires, moves about, devoid of longing"[4]; "Renouncing all undertakings"[5]. Therefore, for the muni[6], who desires to attain to Yoga and has engaged himself in the house-holder's life, action such as the Agnihotra performed without the desire for the fruit becomes, by way of purification of the mind, a mea s of rising to Dhyānayoga. And so, he is being extolled as a samnyasin and a yogin: |
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