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Chapter 17
Link:- In the fifth verse of the sixteenth chapter, divine virtues, have been said, to be conducive to liberation, and the demoniac to bondage. Now, the Lord starts the next topic. Those sattvika persons, who having possessed divine nature, perform sacrifice, penance and offer charity, may commit an error (by feelings, method and action). So what should be done, to rectify that error?
om tatsaditi nirdeso brahmanastrividhah smrtah
brahmanastena vedSica yanasca vihitah pura
"'Aurn (Om), Tat and Sat:- This has been declared to he the triple designation of Brahma. By that, were created at the cosmic dawn, the Brahmanas, the Vedas and the sacrifices (yajnas). 23
Comment:-
Om tatsaditi nirdeio brahmanastrividhah smrtah:- Gm, Tat and Sat - these are the three names of God, (These three names will be explained in the next four verses).
Brahmanastena vedasea yajnasca vihitah para:- God at the beginning of the creation, created the Vedas, the Brahmanas (persons of the priest class) and the sacrifices. The methods of performing sacrifices (which also include penance and charity), are explained in the Vedas; those who perform those sacrifices are Brahmanas, and the acts that are performed, are sacrifices.
If there be any defect in the performance of sacrifice and penance or offering of charity, how to rectify the flaw and render it perfect? Utter the name of God (Om or Tat or Sat) the flaw will be rectified, and defect will be rendered perfect. As a cook, while kneading finds more water in the flour, he adds some more flour to it and thus he sets it right. Similarly a person, who performs virtuous actions, such as sacrifice and penance, etc., but finds any defect in those rites, he chants these names of the Lord and that recitation of Names corrects the defect.
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