Gita Bhashya -Sankara 323

Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya

(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)

CHAPTER -8

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Yam yam ytfpi smaran-hhāvum tyajatyante kalevaran
Tarn tam-evaiti Kaunleya sadā tad-hhāva-bhāvitaj

6. Thinking of whatever entity, at the end, one leaves the body, that alone he reaches, O son of Kuntf. having been constant in the thought of that entity.

Thinking of whatever entity, a particular god (Devatā). at the end, at the time of death (lit. disunion of the vital air from the body), one leaves the body, that alone, only the entity thought of. he reaches,-and no other-O son of Kunti having been constant in the thought of that entity, the remembrance of that entity having always been practised by him.

Wherefore the last thought is thus the cause (which determines the character) of the body to be next attained-

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