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Bhagavad Gita Bhasya (Gambhirananada)

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Chapter 16<br />

16.1 The Blessed Lord said -- Fearlessness, purity of<br />

mind, persistence in knowledge and yoga, charity<br />

and control of the external organs, sacrifice,<br />

(scriptural) study, austerity and recititude;<br />

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

Commentary - Swami Gambhirananda<br />

16.1 Abhayam, fearlessness; sattva-samsuddhih,<br />

purtiy of the mind (sattva), mentally avoiding<br />

fraud, trickery, falsehood, etc. in dealings, i.e.,<br />

honest behaviour; jnana-yoga-vyavasthitih,<br />

persistence in knowledge and yoga-jnana means<br />

knowledge of such subjects as the Self, learnt from<br />

scriptures and teachers; yoga means making those<br />

things that have been learnt matters of one's own<br />

personal experience through concentration by<br />

means of withdrawl of the organs etc.; persistence,<br />

steadfastness, in those two, knowledge and yoga;this<br />

[This-refers to all the three from 'fearlessness'<br />

to 'persistence in knowledge and yoga'.] is the<br />

principal divine characteristic which is sattvika<br />

(born of the sattva quality). That nature which may<br />

occur in persons competent in their respective<br />

spheres, [Persons treading the path of Jnana-yoga<br />

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