Bhagavad Gita Bhashya (Adi Shankaracharya) 14.5
Bhagavad Gita Bhashya (Adi Shankaracharya) 14.5 · 14 · Verse 5
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।।14.5।। -- सत्त्वं रजः तमः इति एवंनामानः। गुणाः इति पारिभाषिकः शब्दः? न रूपादिवत् द्रव्याश्रिताः गुणाः। न च गुणगुणिनोः अन्यत्वमत्र विवक्षितम्। तस्मात् गुणा इव नित्यपरतन्त्राः क्षेत्रज्ञं प्रति अविद्यात्मकत्वात् क्षेत्रज्ञं निबध्नन्तीव। तम् आस्पदीकृत्य आत्मानं प्रतिलभन्ते इति निबध्नन्ति इति उच्यते। ते च प्रकृतिसंभवाः भगवन्मायासंभवाः निबध्नन्ति इव हे महाबाहो? महान्तौ समर्थतरौ आजानुप्रलम्बौ बाहू यस्य सः महाबाहुः? हे महाबाहो देहे शरीरे देहिनं देहवन्तम् अव्ययम्? अव्ययत्वं च उक्तम् अनादित्वात् (गीता 13.31) इत्यादिश्लोकेन। ननु देही न लिप्यते इत्युक्तम्। तत कथम् इह निबध्नन्ति इति अन्यथा उच्यते परिहृतम् अस्माभिः इवशब्देन निबध्नन्ति इव इति।।तत्र सत्त्वादीनां सत्त्वस्यैव तावत् लक्षणम् उच्यते --,
14.5 O mighty-armed one-who are possessed of hands which are great and mighty, and extend upto the knees, gunah, the alities are named sattva, rajas and tamas. And they, prakrti-sambhavah, born of Nature, born of Maya which belongs to God; nibadhnanti, bind, as it were; the avyayam, immutable-the immutability has been spoken of in the verse, 'Being without beginning৷৷.,' etc. (13.31); dehinam, embodied being; dehe, to the body. The word guna is a technical term, and is not a ality like colour etc. which inhere in some substance. Nor is it meant here that ality and substance are different. Therefore they are ever dependent on the Knower of the field, just as alities are dependent (on some substance). Being of the nature of ignorance, they bind the Knower of the field, as it were. They come into being, making That (Knower) their sustainer. In this sense it is said that they bind. Objection; Was it not said that the embodied one does not become defiled (see 13.31-2)? So, why as it contrarily said here that 'they bind'? Reply: We have rutted this objection by using the word iva (as it were) in 'they bind, as it were'.