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Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya
(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)
CHAPTER -10
34. And I am the all-seizing Death; and the prosperity of those who are to be prosperous; of the feminine (qualities), (I am) Fame, Fortune, and Speech, Memory, Intelligence, Constancy and Forbearance. And I am the all-seizing Death: Death (Destroyer) is of two sorts-he who seizes wealth, etc., and he who seizes life. I am, He who seizes both. Or, I am the Supreme Lord who seizes all, because of seizing everything at the time of dissolution ("pralaya") And I am the prosperity, as also the means of attaining it;-of whom? of those who are to be prosperous in the future, those who deserve to attain to eminence. Of the feminine (qualities) I am Fame, Fortune, and Speech, Memory, Intelligence, Constancy and Forbearance: these are the best of the feminine, by having even a semblance of which people consider themselves as having gained their object (feel satisfied). |