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Bhagavad Gita Bhasya (Gambhirananada)

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another. In this way they destroy the self that had<br />

been accepted successively. Thus, all unillumined<br />

persons are destroyers of the Self. But that which is<br />

the Self in reality, even that remains as though<br />

destroyed for ever by ignorance, because of the<br />

absence of any benefit from Its presence. So, all<br />

unenlightened persons are, verily, destroyers of the<br />

Self. On the contrary, the other person who has<br />

realized the Self as described does not injure in<br />

either way [i.e. either through superimposition or<br />

through non-super-imposition.] the Self by his own<br />

Self. Therefore he attains the supreme Goal, i.e., the<br />

result stated above comes to him. Lest it be<br />

doubted that what was said in, 'seeing equally God<br />

who is present in all beings, he does not injure the<br />

Self by the Self, is improper with regard to the<br />

selves which are diverse according to the<br />

differences created by the variety in their own<br />

qualities and actions, the Lord says:<br />

13.30 And he who sees actions as being done in<br />

various ways by Nature itself, and also the Self as<br />

the non-agent,-he sees.<br />

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

Commentary - Swami Gambhirananda<br />

577

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