Sanskrit · Devanagari
तत्रैवं सति कर्तारमात्मानं केवलं तु यः। पश्यत्यकृतबुद्धित्वान्न स पश्यति दुर्मतिः ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
tatraivaṃ sati kartāramātmānaṃ kevalaṃ tu yaḥ paśyatyakṛtabuddhitvānna sa paśyati durmatiḥ
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882who being of an unrefined understanding sees the agent in the immaculate self
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।18.16।। --,तत्र इति प्रकृतेन संबध्यते। एवं सति एवं यथोक्तैः पञ्चभिः हेतुभिः निर्वर्त्ये सति कर्मणि। तत्रैवं सति इति दुर्मतित्वस्य हेतुत्वेन संबध्यते। तत्र एतेषु आत्मानन्यत्वेन अविद्यया परिकल्पितैः क्रियमाणस्य कर्मणः अहमेव कर्ता इति कर्तारम् आत्मानं केवलं शुद्धं तु यः पश्यति अविद्वान् कस्मात् वेदान्ताचार्योपदेशन्यायैः अकृतबुद्धित्वात् असंस्कृतबुद्धित्वात् योऽपि देहादिव्यतिरिक्तात्मवादी आत्मानमेव केवलं कर्तारं पश्यति? असावपि अकृतबुद्धिः अतः अकृतबुद्धित्वात् न सः पश्यति आत्मनः तत्त्वं कर्मणो वा इत्यर्थः। अतः दुर्मतिः? कुत्सिता विपरीता दुष्टा अजस्रं जननमरणप्रतिपत्तिहेतुभूता मतिः अस्य इति दुर्मतिः। सः पश्यन्नपि न पश्यति? यथा तैमिरिकः अनेकं चन्द्रम्? यथा वा अभ्रेषु धावत्सु चन्द्रं धावन्तम्? यथा वा वाहने उपविष्टः अन्येषु धावत्सु आत्मानं धावन्तम्।।कः पुनः सुमतिः यः सम्यक् पश्यतीति? उच्यते --,
79a5372b2071…Rāmānuja
18.16 In fact, the agency of the individual self is subject to the consent of Supreme Self; such being the case, if the 'individual self regards Itself as the agent,' It is of wicked or perverse mind. For, It does not perceive the agent as It really is, since It possesses an 'uncultivated understanding,' namely, an understanding which does not reveal the real state of affairs.
06ee7635cb3a…Swami Sivananda
18.16 तत्र there (the case)? एवम् thus? सति being? कर्तारम् as the agent? आत्मानम् the Self? केवलम् alone? तु verily? यः who? पश्यति sees? अकृतबुद्धित्वात् owing to untrained understanding? न not? सः he? पश्यति sees? दुर्मतिः of perverted intelligence.Commentary The Self is always actionless. He is unattached like ether. He is always the silent witness. He is the spectator of activity. The egoistic man of little understanding only thinks that he is the real agent? and so he is bound by actions. He takes birth again and again to reap the fruits of his actions. For him who considers the body as consciousness? God or the Self? it naturally follows that the Self is the agent or the doer. He who identifies himself with the body? who has taken the body as the pure Self? has cast a net over himself? and he leads a deluded life of utter ignorance. He is bound by the fetters or bonds of Karma. He is ever shut up in the prisonhouse of this body.He who has not united himself with the Buddhi? who has got an impure or untrained understanding? who regards the Self as the actor or the agent is certainly a man of perverted intelligence. He is deluded. He is really a blind man. He sees not though he has eyes. He does not behold the essence of things. He has no idea of the supreme Principle (the Self) Which is Itself actionless? Which ever stands as a silent witness of the activities of all minds and all organs of all beings? Which moves the minds? organs and the lifeforce and the bodies to action? just as the magnet makes the iron pieces move. He does not behold the truth about the Self and action.Durmati Evilminded person A man of perverted intellect or undeveloped reason. He thinks that he alone is the doer or agent. He does not understand anything. He has no knowledge of the,actionless? pure? selfluminous Self.The ignorant man of untrained understanding identifies himself with the five causes and regards the pure actionless Self as the agent or doer of the actions which are really done by these five causes. What is the reason for this Why does he regard them so Because he is not endowed with a pure and subtle intellect his understanding (Buddhi) has not been trained in the practice of Vedanta he is not eipped with the four means of salvation his intellect has not been trained by the teachings of the preceptor or the spiritual teacher in the methods of logical reasoning.He who considers that the pure actionless Self is the agent or the doer is certainly a man of untrained understanding. He has no knowledge of the actionless Self and action. Therefore? he is a man of perverted intelligence. His intellect works or moves in the wrong direction. His intellect moves in the sensual grooves or avenues. It runs like the vicious horse and leads to birth and death. The technie of Buddhi Yoga taught in the Gita enables one effectively to prevent this.He does not perceive or cognise the Truth though he has eyes. Though he sees? he sees the external? gross? illusory? everchanging? perishable objects only. He does not behold the one immortal? unchanging? allblissful essence? which is the basis or substratum of everything. He is like the man with jaundiced eyes? who sees all objects tinged with yellow colur? or like the man suffering from diplopia who beholds many moons? or like the man who thinks that the moon moves when the clouds move? or like the man who? seated in a train? imagines that the trees are moving when it is the train that is really moving. (Cf.V.15XIII.30)
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