j~nAna and bhakti - Sankara on Gita

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advaitin, "Ram Chandran" <rchandran@c...>

 

Namaste ,

 

Today being Sankara Jayanti day, let us offer our prayers

to him, and contemplate on his comments on Gita 11 : 55 -

 

" Now the essential purport of the whole scripture, the Gita, which

is meant for Liberation, is being stated by summing it up so that it

may be practised:

 

55. O son of Pandu, he who works for Me, accepts Me as the supreme

Goal, is devoted to Me, is devoid of attachment and free from enmity

towards all beings-he attains Me.

Pandava, O son of Pandu; yah, he who; mat-karma-krt, works for Me:

work for Me is mat-karma; one who does it is mat-karma-krt-.

Mat-paramah, who accepts Me as the supreme Goal: A servant does work

for his master, but does not accept the master as his own supreme

Goal to be attained after death; his one, however, who does work for

Me, accepts Me alone as the supreme Goal. Thus he is matparamah-one

to whom I am the supreme Goal-.

So also he who is madbhaktah, devoted to me: He adores Me alone in

all ways, with his whole being and full enthusiasm. Thus he is

madbhaktah-.

Sanga-varjitah, who is devoid of attachment for wealth, sons,

friends, wife and relatives, Sanga means fondness, love; devoid of

them-.

Nirvairah, who is free from enmity; sarva-bhutesu, towards all beings-

berefit of the idea of enmity even towards those engaged in doing

utmost harm to him-.

Sah, he who is such a devotee of Mine; eti, attains; mam, Me. I alone

am his supreme Goal; he does not attain any other goal. This is the

advice for you, given by Me as desired by you. "

 

[sw. Ganbhirananda tr. of Sankara Gita Bhashya - from Files section

 

 

Regards,

 

Sunder

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advaitin, "Sunder Hattangadi" <sunderh>

wrote:

> advaitin, "Ram Chandran" <rchandran@c...>

>

> Namaste ,

>

> Today being Sankara Jayanti day, let us offer our prayers

> to him, and contemplate on his comments on Gita 11 : 55 -

 

Namaste,IMO

 

There is no Sankara anymore the body is long gone and was an

illusion.His teachings remain.

Someone recently said true advaitins believe that 'God is Within'.

This was in response to somebody claiming God doesn't exist.

 

Both are right from different perspectives, relatively God isn't

within exclusively for everything is God.

Ultimately God is a concept Iswara-Saguna and doesn't exist. There is

only Nirguna which is described in the negative........ONS...Tony.