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Bhagavad Gita Bhasya (Gambhirananada)

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again, are those modifications and qualities born of<br />

Nature?<br />

13.21 With regard to the source of body and<br />

organs, Nature is said to be the cause. The soul is<br />

the cause so far as enjoyership of happiness and<br />

sorrow is concerned.<br />

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

Commentary - Swami Gambhirananda<br />

13.21 Karya-karana-kartrtve, with regard to the<br />

source of body and organs: Karya is the body, and<br />

karana are the thirteen [Five sense organs, five<br />

motor organs, mind, intellect and ego.] organs<br />

existing in it. Here, by the word karya are<br />

understood the aforesaid elements that produce<br />

the body as also the objects which are<br />

modifications born of Nature. And since the<br />

qualities-which are born of Nature and manifest<br />

themselves as happiness, sorrow and delusion-are<br />

dependent on the organs, (therefore) they are<br />

implied by the word karana, organs. The<br />

kartrtvam, (lit) agentship, with regard to these<br />

body and organs consists in being the source of the<br />

body and organs. With regard to this source of the<br />

body and organs, prakrtih, Nature; ucyate, is said<br />

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