Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya 470

Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya

Chapter-15 Puruṣottama Yogaḥ

tataḥ padaṃ tat parimārgitavyaṃ yasmin gatā na nivartanti bhūyaḥ | tameva cādyaṃ puruṣaṃ prapadye yataḥ pravṛttiḥ prasṛtā purāṇī || 4 || 4. One should then seek that goal, attaining which one never returns. One should take refuge in that Primal Person from whom this ancient process emanated. Commentary As one becomes free from attachment to sense-objects, one should seek and discover the ultimate goal from which one never returns. How can one bring an end to this beginingless attachment to sense objects? Sri Krishna now answers: — one should take ‘refuge (Prapadyet) in the Primal Being’ alone in order to overcome this ignorance. One should seek refuge in Him who is the Original One, namely, the source of all entities. A variant reading of this stanza is 'prapadya iyatah pravrttih' (in place of prapadyet yatah pravrittih'). This gives the sense that this process of taking refuge in the Supreme Being [prapatti] for the dispelling of ignorance has continued from a distant past. Even in the distant past there were those seeking liberation by this ancient means.