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Bhagavad Gita Bhasya (Gambhirananada)

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Becoming the same towards all beings, he attains<br />

supreme devotion to Me.<br />

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

Commentary - Swami Gambhirananda<br />

18.54 Brahma-bhutah, one who has become<br />

Brahman, attained Brahman through the above<br />

process; and prasanna-atma, [Prasada means the<br />

manifestation of the supreme Bliss of the Self as a<br />

result of the total cessation of all evils. Prasannaatma<br />

is one who has attained this in the present life<br />

itself.] has attained the blissful Self, the indwelling<br />

Self; na, does not; socati, grieve-does not lament for<br />

the loss of something or the lack of some quality in<br />

oneself; nor kanksati, desire. By saying 'he does not<br />

grieve nor desire', this nature of one who has<br />

attained Brahman is being restated. For it does not<br />

stand to reason that in the case of a knower of<br />

Brahman there can be any hankering for something<br />

unattained. Or, (in place of kanksati) teh reading<br />

may be na hrsyati, does not become elated.<br />

Becoming samah, the same; sarvesu bhutesu,<br />

towards all being-i.e., he verily judges what is<br />

happiness and sorrow in all beings by the same<br />

standard as he would apply to himself (cf. 6.32);<br />

but the meaning is not 'seeing the Self alike in all<br />

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