Gita Bhashya -Sankara 372

Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya

(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)

CHAPTER -9

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Ye{d)pyanya-devatā-bhakīā yajante śraddhayānvitāh
Te(d)pi mām-eva Kaunteya yajantyavidhi-pūrvakam

23. Even those devotees of other gods who worship (them), endowed with iraddhā, they too worship Me alone, O son of Kunti, (but) by the wrong method. Even those devotees of other gods, who worship (them) endowed with śraddhā, having belief (in the efficiency of the worship), they too worship Me alone, O son of Kunti, (but) by the wrong method, i.e. attended with ignorance (ajñāna).

Why is it said that they worship by the wrong method (in ignorance)?

For,

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1. Arjuna visada yogah (Yoga of the Dejection of Arjuna) 6
2. Saiukhya Yogah (Way of knowledge) 22
3. Karma Yogah (Way of action) 96
4. Jnana Karma Saninyasa Yogah (Way of renunciation of action in knowledge) 143
5. Karmasaninyasa Yogah (Way of renunciation of action) 195
6. Divyana Yogah (Way of meditation) 233
7. Saptamo (A) Dhyayah Jnana-Vijnana-yogah (Way of knowledge with realisation) 288
8. Taraka Brahma Yogah (Saving knowledge of Brahman) 319
9. Raja-Vidya Raja-Guhya Yogah (Yoga of kingly knowledge and kingly secret) 348
10. Vibhuti Yogah (Mode of Divine Glory) 385
11. Visvarapa Darsanam (Vision of the Universal Form) 428
12. Bhakti Yogah (Way of Devotion) 484
13. Prakrti-Purusa-Viveka-Yogah (Way of Discrimi­nating Matter and Spirit) 509
14. Guna-Traya-Vibhaga Yogah (The Way of Discriminating the Three Gunas) 589
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16. Daivasura-Sampat-Vibhaga-Yogah (The mode of Dividing Divine and Demminiac Properties) 649
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