[Advaita-l] Words of comfort from the shruti and bhAShya

Venkata sriram P venkatasriramp at yahoo.in
Tue Sep 18 01:07:57 EDT 2018


Namaste,

The Shankara Bhashya of BG 18.50:

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अत्यन्तप्रसिद्धं ज्ञानम् / ज्ञातापि अत एव,प्रसिद्धः इति। तस्मात् ज्ञाने यत्नो न कर्तव्यः / 
किं तु अनात्मनि आत्मबुद्धिनिवृत्तावेव। तस्मात् ज्ञाननिष्ठा सुसंपाद्या।

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सुतरां ज्ञान अत्यन्त प्रत्यक्ष है और इसीलिये ज्ञाता भी अत्यन्त ही प्रत्यक्ष है। अतः ज्ञानके लिये प्रयत्न कर्तव्य नहीं है? 
किंतु अनात्मबुद्धिकी निवृत्तिके लिये ही कर्तव्य है इसीलिये ज्ञाननिष्ठा सुसंपाद्य है।
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Therefore knowledge is in itself 'self-revealing', and for the very same reason the Knower also is 
self-revealed. Hence, effort is not needed for knowledge, but only for the removal of the notion of what is not-Self.

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rgs,
sriram



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