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Chapter 13
Appendix:—The expression `dehe'smin purusah parah' used in the preceding verse is explained in this verse. He whose discrimination has been aroused viz., `dehe'smin puruusah parah' has been realized, he, in spite of performing his duty according to his order—stage of life (vamasrama), remains untainted. In fact a man (the Self) is untainted, but being attached to the modes, he gets tainted and follows the cycle of birth and death (13/21). The modes are related with Prakrti, not with Pump (13/19-20).
The term `api' used in the expression 'sarvatha vartamano'pi' means that he, in spite of acting in everyway, like the person who is attached to the world, remains unaffected (Gita 3/25).
Na sa bhuyo'bhijayate:- As butter once churned out of the curd does not become curd by mixing it with whey again, similarly having renounced relationship with the modes born of Prakrti, a man is not bound by modes again. He merges into Brahma viz., as Brahma is free from birth and death, so does he become free from the cycle of birth and death.
In the thirty-first verse of the sixth chapter the expression used is `sarvatha vartamano'pi sa yogi mayi vartate', while here the expression is 'sarvatha vartantano'pi na sa bhuyo'bhijayate'. In the expression 'sa yogi mayi vartate', the words used in the sixth chapter, are in the context of attainment of love, while in the expression `na sa bhuyo'bhijayate' the words used here, are in the context of Self-realization. In both states of love and Self-realization, there is no attachment to modes. The difference in the two is that in Self-realization, there is emancipation from birth and death but in love besides emancipation (salvation), the devotee attains oneness with God.
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