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Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya
(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)
CHAPTER -10
20. I am the Self, O Gudākeśa, existent in the heart of all beings; and I am the beginning, and the middle, and also the end of all beings. 0 Guiākeia, he who has conquered sleep or he who has dense hair, I am the Self, the inner-most Self ("Pratyagātman"), existent in the heart of all beings, seated in the heart within all beings. I am to be always thought of as the Self, the "Pratyagātman"[1]. But he who is not capable of thinking of Me as the Self should think of Me in the objects mentioned hereafter. I can be contem plated (in them), for, I am the beginning, the source (birth), and the middle, the stay (life), and also the end, dissolution (death), of all beings. I am to be thought of thus : |
References and Context
- ↑ This is the essential form of the Lord (Pāramārttkam Paramelvaram liapam). (A)