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Bhagavad Gita Bhasya (Gambhirananada)

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(phala) of rites and duties (karma) is karma-phala.<br />

Birth (janma) itself is the karma-phala. That<br />

(speech) which promises this is janma-karmaphala-prada.<br />

(This speech) is kriya-visesa-bahulam,<br />

full of various special rites; bhoga-aisvarya-gatimprati,<br />

for the attainment of enjoyment and<br />

affluence. Special (visesa) rites (kriya) are kriyavisesah.<br />

The speech that is full (bahula) of these,<br />

the speech by which that is full (bahula) of these,<br />

the speech by which these, viz objects such as<br />

heaven, animals and sons, are revealed plentifully,<br />

is kriya-visesa-bahula. Bhoga, enjoyment, and<br />

aisvarya, affluence, are bhoga-aisvarya. Their<br />

attainment (gatih) is bhoga-aisvarya-gatih. (They<br />

utter a speech) that is full of the specialized rites,<br />

prati, meant for that (attainment). The fools who<br />

utter that speech move in the cycle of<br />

transmigration. This is the idea.<br />

2.44 One-pointed conviction does not become<br />

established in the minds of those who delight in<br />

enjoyment and affluence, and whose intellects are<br />

carried away by that (speech).<br />

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

Commentary - Swami Gambhirananda<br />

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