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Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya
(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)
CHAPTER -10
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4. Intellect, knowledge, non-delusion, forbearance, truth, self-restraint, calmness, happiness, misery, birth, death, fear, as well as fearlessness; (the sentence is completed in the next verse.) Intellect, the power of the inner-sense (antah-karana) which understands the subtle and other[1] objects (of thought): only that person who has this power is truly said to b; intelligent; knowledge the perception (awareness) of the Self and other things[2]; nondelusion, that kind of behaviour which is attended with discern ment when confronted with objects to be understood[3]; forebearance, not being perturbed in mind when abused or beaten; truth, speech which gives utterance to one's own experience, ex actly as it was seen or heard, with a view to transferring it to another's mind; self-restraint, stopping the external senses (from their objects); calmness, stopping the mind (antah-karaoa) (from its objects); happiness, joy; misery, agony; birth, production, death, the opposite of birth; fear, terror; as well as fearlessness, the opposite of fear; |
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