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Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya
(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)
CHAPTER -8
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15. Having attained Me, the great-souled ones do not again get birth, which is the abode of pain and is ephemeral,-they having reached highest perfection. Having attained Me, the Iśvara-that is, having reached My Being,- the great-souled ones, the self-controlled ascetics, do not again get birth, are not subject to rebirth. What is the nature of rebirth which they do not suffer? It is thus characterised: it is the abode of pain: birth is the home, the resting place, to which all misery arising from the body etc. cling. It is not merely the abode of pain; it is besides ephemeral, unstable (ever-changing) in nature. The great-souled ones do not suffer this kind of rebirth, they having reached highest perfection, the most exalted state called moksa (release). Those, on the other hand, who do not reach Me. return again (are reborn). Do they, who have reached somebody other than Thyself, return again? The reply follows: |
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