Bhagavad Gita Bhasya (Gambhirananada)

Liberation of the Self are real in the truest sense. So,
when things to be renounced or accepted as also
the means thereto are real, the scriptures etc.
become meaningful. On the other hand, may it not
be that for the non-dualists, since duality deos not
exist in truest sense, it being the creation of
ignorance, therefore the state of bondage of the Self
is not ultimately real, and hence the scriptures etc.
become purposeless as they remain shorn of a
subject-matter? Reply: No, since it is not logical
that the Self should have different states. If this
were possible at all, then the states of bondage and
freedom of the Self should be simultaneous, or
successive. As to that, they cannot occur
simultaneously, since they are contradictory-like
rest and motion in the same object. Should they
occur successively and without being caused, then
there will arise the contingency of there being no
Liberation; if they occur through some cause, then,
since they do not exist inherently, there arises the
contingency of their being ultimately unreal. In this
case also the assumption becomes falsified.
Moreover, when ascertaining the precedence and
succession of the states of bondage and Liberation,
the state of bondage will have to be considered as
being the earlier and having no beginning, but an
end. And that is contrary to valid means of
513