Bhagavad Gita Bhasya (Gambhirananada)

mundance existence. And both these are
undesirable, since the scriptures dealing with
bondage, Liberation and their causes will become
useless, and also becuase they contradict such valid
means of knowledge as direct perception. In the
first place, mundane existence which is
characterized by happiness, sorrow and their cause
is apprehended through direct perception. Besides,
from the perception of variety in the world it can
be inferred that mundane existence results from
virtue and vice. All this becomes illogical if God
and the individual soul be one. Reply: No, because
this becomes justifiable owing to the difference
between Knowledge and ignorance. 'These two, viz
that which is know as Knowledge and that which
is known as ignorance are widely contradictory,
and they follow divergent courses' (Ka. 1.2.4.); and
similarly, the different results, viz Liberation and
enjoyment, belonging (respectively) to those
Knowledge and ignorance, have also been pointed
out to be contrary by saying that Liberation is the
goal of Knowledge, and enjoyment is the result of
ignorance (see Ka. 1.2.2). Vyasa, also has said so:
'Now, there are these two paths' (Mbh Sa. 241.6)
etc. and, 'There are only these two paths,' etc. Here
(in the Gita) also, two kinds of steadfastness have
been stated. And it is understood from the Vedas,
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