Bhagavad Gita Bhashya (Sri Madhvacharya) 8.12
Bhagavad Gita Bhashya (Sri Madhvacharya) 8.12 · 8 · Verse 12
Sanskrit Original
।।8.12 -- 8.13।।ब्रह्मनाडीं विना यद्यन्यत्र गच्छति तर्हि विना मोक्षं स्थानान्तरं प्राप्नोतीति सर्वद्वाराणि संयम्यनिर्गच्छंश्चक्षुषा सूर्यं दिशः श्रोत्रेण चैव हि इत्यादिवचनात् व्यासयोगे मोक्षधर्मे च। हृदि नारायणे।ह्रियते त्वया जगद्यस्माद्धृदित्येवं प्रभाषसे इति पाद्मे। नहि मूर्धनि प्राणे स्थिते हृदि मनसः स्थितिः सम्भवति।यत्र प्राणो मनस्तत्र तत्र जीवः परस्तथा इति व्यासयोगे। योगधारणामास्थितः योगभरण एवाभियुक्त इत्यर्थः।
If one departs by any other channel than the Brahma-nadi, then one attains another place rather than liberation — this is established by scriptural statements like 'if one controls all the gates and departs, by the eye he goes to the sun, by the ear to that realm,' and by the teaching in Vyasa-yoga and the doctrine of moksha. "In the heart is Narayana" — 'you are said to dwell at the heart of the world' (Padma). If the life-principle is at the crown, the mind cannot be established in the heart. "Where prana is, there the mind; where the mind is, there the jiva," says Vyasa-yoga. Being established in yoga-holding means the yoga-covered one is firmly attached — that is the intended meaning.