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Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya
(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)
CHAPTER -2
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The conclusion is that there is no existence for the unreal - such as the body, the pairs of opposites (such as heat and cold) and their causes. So also, of the real, the Self, there is no non-existence, because - as already stated - it is, at all times, not transitory. Thus, the conclusion about these two, the Self and the non-Self, the Real and the unreal, - namely, that the Real is always existent and that the unreal is always non-existent has been perceived by the seers of Reality, those who arc habituated to perceive the "Tat-tva", the real nature of That ("Tat"), a name of Brahman, the All. The import of the passage is : You also had better follow the view of the seers of Truth and, abandoning sorrow and delusion, bear patiently the pairs of opposites such as cold and heat - some of which are constant and others inconstant (in causing pain and pleasure), - deciding in your mind that all these phenomena are modifications (vikāra), in truth non-existent, and are mere false appearances like the water of the mirage. Then, what is that which is truly real (Sat) and ever existent? This is being stated:
17. Know for certain That, by which all this is pervaded, to be indestructible. None has the power to destroy (ruin) this Immutable. |
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