Contents
Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya
(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)
CHAPTER -2
|
|
15. The wise man who remains the same in pain and pleasure, whom these cannot disturb, he alone is able, O great among men, to attain immortality. The wise man, the man of spiritual knowledge, who remains the same in pain and pleasure, i.e. who does not exult in pleasure or feel dejected in pain, whom these, the aforesaid experiences of cold, heat and the rest, cannot disturb - because of his constant perception of the eternal Self; he, that person ever devoted to the constant perception of the eternal Self and bearing patiently the pairs of opposites,[1]' alone is able to attain, becomes qualified for, immortality, moksa."[2] For the following reason also, it is right to endure patiently cold and heat etc., abandoning grief and delusion. For-
16. Of the unreal, there is no existence. Of the real, there is no non-existence. The conclusion about these two has been perceived by the seers of Reality. |
 |
