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Bhagavad Gita Bhashya (Adi Shankaracharya) 14.1

Bhagavad Gita Bhashya (Adi Shankaracharya) 14.1 · 14 · Verse 1

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।।14.1।। --,परं ज्ञानम् इति व्यवहितेन संबन्धः? भूयः पुनः पूर्वेषु सर्वेष्वध्यायेषु असकृत् उक्तमपि प्रवक्ष्यामि। तच्च परं परवस्तुविषयत्वात्। किं तत् ज्ञानं सर्वेषां ज्ञानानाम् उत्तमम्? उत्तमफलत्वात्। ज्ञानानाम् इति न अमानित्वादीनाम् किं तर्हि यज्ञादिज्ञेयवस्तुविषयाणाम् इति। तानि न मोक्षाय? इदं तु मोक्षाय इति परोत्तमशब्दाभ्यां स्तौति श्रोतृबुद्धिरुच्युत्पादनार्थम्। यत् ज्ञात्वा यत् ज्ञानं ज्ञात्वा प्राप्य मुनयः संन्यासिनः मननशीलाः सर्वे परां सिद्धिं मोक्षाख्याम् इतः अस्मात् देहबन्धनात् ऊर्ध्वं गताः प्राप्ताः।।अस्याश्च सिद्धेः ऐकान्तिकत्वं दर्शयति --,

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14.1 The word param should be connected with the remote word jnanam. Pravaksyami, I shall speak; bhuyah, again-even though spoken of more than once in all the preceding chapters; of the param, supreme-it is supreme because it is concerned with the supreme Reality;-which is that?-jnanam, Knowledge; uttamam, the best-since it has the best result; jnananam, of all knowledges-. 'Of all knowledges' does not mean 'of humility' etc. (13.7-11). What then? It means 'among knowledges of all knowable things like sacrifice etc.' They do not lead to Liberation, but this (Knowledge) leads to Liberation. Hence the Lord praises it with the words 'supreme' and 'best', so as to arouse interest in the intellect of the listener. Yat jnatva, by realizing which, by attaining which Knowledge; sarve, all; munayah, the contemplatives, the monks [But not those who espoused monasticsim as a formality in in the fourth stage of life.] gatah, reached, attained; itah, from here-when this bondage of the body had ceased; param, the highest; siddhim, Perfection, called Liberation. And the Lord shows the infallibility of this Perfection: