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Bhagavad Gita Bhasya (Gambhirananada)

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ecome identified with God, they would be the<br />

same as the Immutable on account of (their) having<br />

realized non-difference. Consequently, speaking of<br />

them as objects of the act of deliverance will<br />

become inappropriate! And, since the Lord in<br />

surely the greatest well-wisher of Arjuna, He<br />

imparts instructions only about Karma-yoga,<br />

which involves perception of duality and is not<br />

associated with full Illumination. Also, no one who<br />

has realized his Self as God through valid means of<br />

knowledge would like subordination to another,<br />

since it involves a contradiction. Therefore, with<br />

the idea, 'I shall speak of the group of virtues (as<br />

stated in), "He hwo is not hateful towards any<br />

creature," etc. which are the direct means to<br />

Immortality, to those monks who meditate on the<br />

Immutable,who are steadfast in full enlightenment<br />

and have given up all desires,' the Lord proceeds:<br />

12.13 He who is not hateful towards any creature,<br />

who is friendly and compassionate, who has no<br />

idea of 'mine' and the idea of egoism, who is the<br />

same under sorrow and happiness, who is<br />

forgiving;<br />

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

Commentary - Swami Gambhirananda<br />

493

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