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।।15.20।। -- इति एतत् गुह्यतमं गोप्यतमम्? अत्यन्तरहस्यं इत्येतत्। किं तत् शास्त्रम्। यद्यपि गीताख्यं समस्तम् शास्त्रम् उच्यते? तथापि अयमेव अध्यायः इह शास्त्रम् इति उच्यते स्तुत्यर्थं प्रकरणात्। सर्वो हि गीताशास्त्रार्थः अस्मिन् अध्याये समासेन उक्तः। न केवलं गीताशास्त्रार्थ एव? किंतु सर्वश्च वेदार्थः इह परिसमाप्तः। यस्तं वेद स वेदवित् (गीता 15।1) वेदैश्च सर्वैरहमेव वेद्यः (गीता 15।15) इति च उक्तम्। इदम् उक्तं कथितं मया हे अनघ अपाप। एतत् शास्त्रं यथादर्शितार्थं बुद्ध्वा बुद्धिमान् स्यात् भवेत् न अन्यथा कृतकृत्यश्च भारत कृतं कृत्यं कर्तव्यं येन सः कृतकृत्यः विशिष्टजन्मप्रसूतेन ब्राह्मणेन यत् कर्तव्यं तत् सर्वं भगवत्तत्त्वे विदिते कृतं भवेत् इत्यर्थः न च अन्यथा कर्तव्यं परिसमाप्यते कस्यचित् इत्यभिप्रायः। सर्वं कर्माखिलं पार्थ ज्ञाने परिसमाप्यते (गीता 4।33) इति च उक्तम्। एतद्धि जन्मसामग्र्यं ब्राह्मणस्य विशेषतः। प्राप्यैतत्कृतकृत्यो हि द्विजो भवति नान्यथा (मनुस्मृति 12।93) इति च मानवं वचनम्। यतः एतत् परमार्थतत्त्वं मत्तः श्रुतवान् असि? अतः कृतार्थः त्वं भारत इति।।इति श्रीमत्परमहंसपरिव्राजकाचार्यस्य श्रीगोविन्दभगवत्पूज्यपादशिष्यस्य,श्रीमच्छंकरभगवतः कृतौ श्रीमद्भगवद्गीताभाष्येपञ्चदशोऽध्यायः।।

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15.20 Thus, this Sastra, the most mysterious of all mysteries and which teaches My aspect as the Supreme Person, has been imparted to you by Me, as you are worthy to receive it because you are sinless. By understanding this, a man will become truly wise and will have fulfilled his duty. Whatever wisdom has to be cultivated for attaining Me, all that should be taken as cultivated and that whatever duty has to be fulfilled in that connection - all that is to be taken as fulfilled by knowing this (the Purusottama Vidya). He gets all spiritual fulfilment by this knowledge, except the direct vision of Purusottama. [Probably the idea is that direct vision comes only when the body falls at the end of the antum of Karma that has brought it into existence. Before that only the state of the Sthitaprajna can be attained. The thin veil of residual Karma still stands in the way.]

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15.20 इति thus? गुह्यतमम् most secret? शास्त्रम् science (teaching)? इदम् this? उक्तम् has been taught? मया by Me? अनघ O sinless one? एतत् बुद्ध्वा knowing this? बुद्धिमान् wise? स्यात् will become? कृतकृत्यः (who has) accomplished all the duties? च and? भारत O Bharata.Commentary Guhyatamam Most profound secret.Buddhiman means here a knower of the Self or Atmart.The knowledge of the Self which gives emancipation from the round of birth and death? and freedom from the bonds of Karma is eulogised in this verse. If this most profound teaching is rightly understood? known or realised? it makes a man wise and gives him illumination. After this there is nothing left for him to know or strive for. He has reached the goal of life or the aim of human existence. He has arrived at the end of his journey. His endeavour for Selfrealisation is over. He has attained perfection. He has complete knowledge of the Supreme Being. He gets Brahma Jnana. He moves in the consciousness of the Divine. He beholds the Self everywhere. He lives in Brahman. He regards all activities as His divine play.When one realises Brahman? he has discharged all the duties of life. He is liberated from the bonds of Karma. He becomes a Jivanmukta or illumined sage who has transcended the bodyconsciousness? the three alities of Nature? the three states of consciousness (wakeful state? dream and deep sleep)? the pairs of opposites and the cycle of birth and death. He knows fully well that rirth has been destroyed? that what has to be done has been accomplished? that lifes highest goal has been reached and that he has nothing more to do or to learn. He has understood the profound mystery of life -- the riddle of this universe. He is a Sarvavit or allknower.The whole of the Gita is called science? yet the fifteenth discourse alone is here declared as the science for the sake of eulogising it. The fifteenth discourse contains the intessence of the Gita? the Upanishads and the Vedas. This is the butter churned from the milk of the Vedas. It has been said that? He who knows the peepul tree knows the Veda (XV.1). The Lord has also said? It is I Who am to be known by all the Vedas (XV.15). Only when a man knows this science as taught above does he become wise -- but not otherwise. Whatever duty a Brahmana of the highest birth has to do? all that has been doen when one attains the knowledge of the Self. All actions in their entirety culminate in knowledge (IV.33). This is the fulfilment of the birth? particularly of a Brahmana because the twicorn accomplishes all his duties only by attaining to this? but not otherwise? says Manu Smriti.As you have heard from Me this truth about the Supreme Being? you are a happy man and you have done all your duties you have attained Selfrealistion.By using the words Anagha and Bharata? Lord Krishna hints that even when an ordinary man who knows this fifteenth discourse can attain knowledge of the Self and become a Kritakritya? then what to say of Arjuna who was sinless and who was born in a noble family with divine attributes The Lord? by using the word Anagha? also indicates that the Guru who is a knower of Brahman should instruct the most profound secret (the science of the Self) only to alified persons who are free from impurities of the heart or tossing of the mind? who are calm and endowed with the four means of salvation. The man of impure mind will not be able to grasp the truth. The sinful man with his perverted intellect will distort the truth and thus pave the way for the destruction of himself and his followers.Thus in the Upanishads of the glorious Bhagavad Gita? the science of the Eternal? the scripture of Yoga? the dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjuna? ends the fifteenth discourse entitledThe Yoga of the Supreme Spirit. ,,

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