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Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya
(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)
CHAPTER -9
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9. These acts do not bind Me, sitting as one neutral, unattached to those acts, O Dhanañjaya. These acts, which occasion the unequal creation of the multi tude of beings, do not bind Me, the Lord, O Dhandhjaya. Now, the Lord states the reason for His non-connection with those acts. I am sitting as one neutral: since the Self is immutable, I (the Self) remain like a neutral, who is indifferent; unattached to those acts, devoid of attachment to the fruit of those acts and of the selfconceit that I do them. From this, it follows that, for any other person also, the absence of self-conceit that he is the agent (of an act) and (absence) of attachment to the fruit, is the cause of freedom from bondage; if he is otherwise, that ignorant man is bound by (his) acts as is the silkworm in its cocoon. Now, the statements. "I project this multitude of beings"[1] and "sitting as one neutral"[2] are inconsistent: to remove the contradiction, the Lord says: |
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