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Bhagavad Gita Bhashya (Adi Shankaracharya) 18.22

Bhagavad Gita Bhashya (Adi Shankaracharya) 18.22 · 18 · Verse 22

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।।18.22।। --,यत् (तु गी0 में) ज्ञानं कृत्स्नवत् समस्तवत् सर्वविषयमिव एकस्मिन् कार्ये देहे बहिर्वा प्रतिमादौ सक्तम् एतावानेव आत्मा ईश्वरो वा? न अतः परम् अस्ति इति? यथा नग्नक्षपणकादीनां शरीरान्तर्वर्ती देहपरिमाणो जीवः? ईश्वरो वा पाषाणदार्वादिमात्रम्? इत्येवम् एकस्मिन् कार्ये सक्तम्? अहैतुकं हेतुवर्जितं निर्युक्तिकम्? अतत्त्वार्थवत् अयथाभूतार्थवत्? यथाभूतः अर्थः तत्त्वार्थः? सः अस्य ज्ञेयभूतः अस्तीति तत्त्वार्थवत्? न तत्त्वार्थवत् अतत्त्वार्थवत् अहैतुकत्वादेव अल्पं च? अल्पविषयत्वात् अल्पफलत्वाद्वा। तत् तामसम् उदाहृतम्। तामसानां हि प्राणिनाम् अविवेकिनाम् ईदृशं ज्ञानं दृश्यते।।अथ इदानीं कर्मणः त्रैविध्यम् उच्यते --,

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18.22 But tat, that knowledge; is udahrtam, said to be; tamasam, born of tamas; yat, which is; saktam, confined; ekasmin, to one; karye, from, to one body or to an external image etc., krtsnavat, as though it were all, as though it comprehended everything, thinking, 'The Self, or God, is only this much; there is nothing beyond it,'-as the naked Jainas hold that the soul conforms to and has the size of the body, or (as others hold) that God is merely a stone or wood-, remaining confined thus to one form; ahaitukam, which is irrational, bereft of logic; a-tattvarthavat, not concerned with truth-tattvartha, truth, means some-thing just as it is; that (knowledge) which has this (truth) as its object of comprehension is tattvarthavat; that without this is ; a-tattvarthavat-; and which, on account of the very fact of its being irrational, is alpam, trivial, because it is concerned with trifles or is productive of little result. This kind of knowledge is indeed found in non-discriminating creatures in whom tamas predominates. Now is being stated the threehold division of action: