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Bhagavad Gita Bhasya (Gambhirananada)

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<strong>Gita</strong>. Who is fit for this true knowledge? The<br />

answer is: madbhaktah, My devotee, who<br />

attributes the fact of being the Self of all to Me who<br />

am God, Vasudeva, the Omniscient, the supreme<br />

Teacher, (and) whose conviction has been<br />

saturated with the idea that whatever he sees,<br />

hears or touches, all that verily is Lord Vasudeva.<br />

Vijnaya, by understanding; etat, this, the aforesaid<br />

true knowledge; he upa-padyate, becomes<br />

qualified; mad-bhavaya, for My State (bhava) -the<br />

State of being the supreme Self; for that State of<br />

Mine. He attains Liberation. There in the Seventh<br />

Chapter have been presented the two aspects [Cf.<br />

15.16-18.] of God, viz the higher and the lower,<br />

characterized as the field and the Knower of the<br />

field. And it has also been said, '(Understand thus)<br />

that all things have these as their source' (7.6). The<br />

explanation as to how creatures have the two<br />

aspects, the field and the Knower of the field, as<br />

their source is now being stated:<br />

13.20 Know both Nature and also the individual<br />

soul [Prakrti is sometimes translated as matter, and<br />

purusa as spirit.-Tr.] to be verily without<br />

beginning; know the modifications as also the<br />

qualities as born of Nature.<br />

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