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Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya
(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)
CHAPTER -8
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28. Whatever meritorious effect is declared to accrue from the Vedas, yajfiās, austerities, and gifts,-above it all, the yogi rises on knowing this (teaching), and attains to the primeval, supreme abode. Whatever meritorious effect, fruit of meritorious action, is declared by Scripture to accrue from the Vedas having been studied correctly and properly, from yajñās, sacrifices, having been per formed in all their parts, from austerities well practised, and from gifts well-given, above it all. above the entirety of the fruit (of studying the Vedas etc.), the yogi rises on knowing this (teaching), on having understood rightly what, all lias been stated (by the Lord) by way of settling the seven points (raised by Arjuna in the opening verse of the Chapter) and having followed them in practice, and attains to the primeval, that which exists from the beginning the supreme abode, the exalted abode of īśvara: he attains the Cause Brahman. |
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