Sanskrit · Devanagari
असक्तबुद्धिः सर्वत्र जितात्मा विगतस्पृहः। नैष्कर्म्यसिद्धिं परमां संन्यासेनाधिगच्छति ॥
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asaktabuddhiḥ sarvatra jitātmā vigataspṛhaḥ naiṣkarmyasiddhiṃ paramāṃ saṃnyāsenādhigacchati
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882One who is self-restrained, whose understanding is unattached everywhere, from whom affections have departed, obtains the supreme perfection of freedom from action by renunciation.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।18.49।। -- असक्तबुद्धिः असक्ता सङ्गरहिता बुद्धिः अन्तःकरणं यस्य सः असक्तबुद्धिः सर्वत्र पुत्रदारादिषु आसक्तिनिमित्तेषु? जितात्मा जितः वशीकृतः आत्मा अन्तःकरणं यस्य सः जितात्मा? विगतस्पृहः विगता स्पृहा तृष्णा देहजीवितभोगेषु यस्मात् सः विगतस्पृहः? यः एवंभूतः आत्मज्ञः सः नैष्कर्म्यसिद्धिं निर्गतानि कर्माणि यस्मात् निष्क्रियब्रह्मात्मसंबोधात् सः निष्कर्मा तस्य भावः नैष्कर्म्यम्? नैष्कर्म्यं च तत् सिद्धिश्च सा नैष्कर्म्यसिद्धिः? निष्कर्मत्वस्य वा निष्क्रियात्मरूपावस्थानलक्षणस्य सिद्धिः निष्पत्तिः? तां नैष्कर्म्यसिद्धिं परमां प्रकृष्टां कर्मजसिद्धिविलक्षणां सद्योमुक्त्यवस्थानरूपां संन्यासेन सम्यग्दर्शनेन तत्पूर्वकेण वा सर्वकर्मसंन्यासेन अधिगच्छति प्राप्नोति। तथा च उक्तम् -- सर्वकर्माणि मनसा संन्यस्य नैव कुर्वन्न कारयन्नास्ते (गीता 5।13) इति।।पूर्वोक्तेन स्वकर्मानुष्ठानेन ईश्वराभ्यर्चनरूपेण जनितां प्रागुक्तलक्षणां सिद्धिं प्राप्तस्य उत्पन्नात्मविवेकज्ञानस्य केवलात्मज्ञाननिष्ठारूपा नैष्कर्म्यलक्षणा सिद्धिः येन क्रमेण भवति? तत् वक्तव्यमिति आह --,
5f6cb2eb228a…Rāmānuja
18.49 He whose understanding is, on all sides, without attachments, concerning fruits etc., whose 'self is conered,' i.e., who has conered his mind; who, by contemplating on the agency of the Supreme Person, is free from the habit of attributing agency to the self; and who is thus eipped with Sannyasa which has been positively determined to be the same as Tyaga - such a man, performing actions, attains supreme perfection which is free from all activities. The meaning is that he attains devotion to Dhyana which is the consummation of even Jnana Yoga; he attains Dhyana Yoga (Yoga of meditation) consisting in the complete cessation of sensory activity, which is going to be described hereafter.
03d4aab6af42…Swami Sivananda
18.49 असक्तबुद्धिः whose intellect is unattached? सर्वत्र eveywhere? जितात्मा who has subdued his self? विगतस्पृहः whose desire has fled? नैष्कर्म्यसिद्धिम् the perfection consisting in freedom from action? परमाम् the supreme? संन्यासेन by renunciaion? अधिगच्छति (he) attains.Commentary The mind of one who is free from attachment to wife? son? body and property? who has controlled his senses and the mind? who has no desire for the body? for life and for sensual pleasure? turns inwards towards God or the immortal Self. It is not attracted by the sensual objects of the world. It is filled with dispassion and discrimination.He gradually gets himself established in his own Self which is of the nature of ExistenceKnowledgeBliss. Such a person who has knowledge of the Self attains to the highest perfection? to pefect freedom from action by renunciation.Ignorance is destroyed by the attainment of the knowledge of the Self. There is cessation of activity. One may perform actions for the solidarity of the world and yet he will not be bound by actions as he has attained absolute freedom from action through the knowledge of the Self. The fire of knowledge has burnt the fruitbearing effects of Karmas or actions. He has no idea of agency as he is absolutely free from egoism? as he has identified himself with the Supreme Being.Naishkarmya siddhi may also mean the attainment of the state of Naishkarmya. In this exalted? magnanimous? ineffable state of divine splendour and glory? one remains as the actionless Self. This is the state of immediate liberation of the Vedantins (Kaivalya Moksha or Sadyomukti). This marvellous state is attained by renunciation or right knowledge or by the renunciation of all actions brought about by the attainment of the knowledge of the Self. Mentally renouncing all actions and selfcontrolled? the embodied one rests happily in the ninegated? city? neither acting nor causing others to act. (Cf.V.13)Now the Lord teaches in the next verse how a man who? having attained perfection as described above in verse 46? by doing his duty in the service of the Lord can attain perfect freedom from action. He gets discrimination? practises constant meditation and rests in the knowledge of the immutable Self.,(Cf.III.4and19)
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