Gita Bhashya -Sankara 379

Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya

(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)

CHAPTER -9

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Apt cet-sudurū( ūro bhajate mām-ananyabhāk
Sādhur-eva sa mantavyah samyag-vyavasito hi sah

30. If one, even of very wicked conduct, worships me with undivided devotion, he should be regarded as good, for he has rightly resolved.

If one, even of very wicked conduct, of extremely despicable behaviour, worships Me with undivided devotion, he should be regarded, understood, as good, as a person of right conduct; for he has rightly, properly, resolved: he has made a virtuous resolution.

And, by the power of the virtuous resolution made inter­ nally (i.e. in the mind), he abandons improper conduct in (his) external life-

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