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Bhagavad Gita Bhasya (Gambhirananada)

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engage your-self in war, which is your own (caste)<br />

duty. Asamsayah, there is no doubt in this matter;<br />

that arpita-mano-buddhih, by dedicating your<br />

mind and intellect; mayi; to Me; esyasi, you-you<br />

who have thus dedicated our mind and intellect to<br />

Me, Vasudeva-will attain; mam eva, Me alone, as I<br />

shall be remembered. [When the Lord instructs<br />

Arjuna to think of Him, and at the same time<br />

engage in war, it may seem that He envisages a<br />

combination of Knowledge and action. But this is<br />

not so, because when one thinks of all actions,<br />

accessories and results that come within the<br />

purview of the mind and the intellect as Brahman,<br />

it is denied that actions etc. have any separate<br />

reality apart from Brahman. Therefore no<br />

combination is involved here.] Besides,<br />

8.8 O son of Prtha, by meditating with a mind<br />

which is engaged in the yoga of practice and which<br />

does not stray away to anything else, one reaches<br />

the supreme Person existing in the effulgent<br />

region.<br />

English Translation of Sri Sankaracharya's Sanskrit<br />

Commentary - Swami Gambhirananda<br />

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