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Chapter 13
Link:—Having described 'Prakrti' and 'Purusa', from the nineteenth verse to the twenty-second verse, the Lord in the next verse, declares the reward of knowing the two, in reality.
ya evam vetti purusam prakrtim ca gunaih
saha sarvatha vartamano'pi na sa bhuyo'bhijayate
He who thus knows Purusa (Spirit) and prakrti (nature) together with its modes, though he acts in everyway (whatever state of tife he may be in), he is not born again. 23
Comment:-
Va evam vetti purusam prakrtim ca gunaih saha sarvatha vartamano'pi na sa bhtiyo'bh(jayate:- Here the term 'Evam' (thus), denotes that the Spirit is different from, the body. He who knows this difference in reality, while performing his duty according to his caste, creed, stage of life and circumstances etc., is not reborn. He knows that prakrti with its evolutes, modifications and instruments etc., which appears in the form of universe, is different from the Self. So he is not born again, because attachment to the modes of nature, is the cause of its birth (Gita 13/21).
Here, the expression Sarvatha vaetamano'pi' (acts in anyway), does not involve forbidden actions, because he who knows prakrti, with its modes as different from the self, can have no desire to gain the unreal. When he has no desire, forbidden actions cannot be performed by him, because desire is the only cause of forbidden actions (Gita 3/37).
The Lord, exhorts a striver, to know the self in reality and that there is no action, in the self. So he can be neither an agent, nor an experiencer. When he realizes, that he is not an agent (doer), his pride of doership comes to an end, and so he has no desire for fruit of action, which are naturally performed by him according to the ordinance of the scriptures. Having transcended the gums, (modes of nature), he is not born again.
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