Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya 178

Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya

Chapter-5 Karma Sanyāsa Yogaḥ

tad-buddhayas tad-ātmānas-tan-niṣṭhās tat-parāyaṇāḥ | gacchanty-apunarāvṛttiṃ jñāna nirdhūta kalmaṣāḥ || 17 || 17. Those who intellectually pursue That (ātman), whose minds are absorbed in That, who strive for That, and who hold That as their supreme goal, have their karmic hindrances destroyed by wisdom and go whence there is no return. Commentary 'Those who intellectually pursue That,' — are those who are determined to attain Selfrealization; 'those whose minds are absorbed in That,' — are those whose minds are fully directed to [contemplation on] the ātman, and those ‘who strive for That’, — are those who are fully engaged in the practice of sādhana leading to Self-realization; 'those who hold That as their supreme goal' — are those who consider Self-realization as the highest goal of life — such persons, having their accumulated [mental] impurities cleansed by the wisdom which arises in this way, attain the Self as taught:— ‘Whence there is no return' — means the state of enlightenment; ie. they attain the immaculate nature of Self which is its own.