Sanskrit · Devanagari
अर्जुन उवाच। नष्टो मोहः स्मृतिर्लब्धा त्वत्प्रसादान्मयाच्युत। स्थितोऽस्मि गतसन्देहः करिष्ये वचनं तव ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
arjuna uvāca naṣṭo mohaḥ smṛtirlabdhā tvatprasādānmayācyuta sthito.asmi gatasandehaḥ kariṣye vacanaṃ tava
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Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882Destroyed is my delusion by your favour, O undegraded one! I (now) recollect myself. I stand freed from doubts. I will do your bidding.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।18.73।। -- नष्टः मोहः अज्ञानजः समस्तसंसारानर्थहेतुः? सागर इव दुरुत्तरः। स्मृतिश्च आत्मतत्त्वविषया लब्धा? यस्याः लाभात् सर्वहृदयग्रन्थीनां विप्रमोक्षः त्वत्प्रसादात् तव प्रसादात् मया त्वत्प्रसादम् आश्रितेन अच्युत। अनेन मोहनाशप्रश्नप्रतिवचनेन सर्वशास्त्रार्थज्ञानफलम् एतावदेवेति निश्चितं दर्शितं भवति? यतः ज्ञानात् मोहनाशः आत्मस्मृतिलाभश्चेति। तथा च श्रुतौ अनात्मवित् शोचामि (छा0 उ0 7।1।3) इति उपन्यस्य आत्मज्ञानेन सर्वग्रन्थीनां विप्रमोक्षः उक्तः भिद्यते हृदयग्रन्थिः (मु0 उ0 2।2।8) तत्र को मोहः कः शोकः एकत्वमनुपश्यतः (ई0 उ0 7) इति च मन्त्रवर्णः। अथ इदानीं त्वच्छासने स्थितः अस्मि गतसंदेहः मुक्तसंशयः। करिष्ये वचनं तव। अहं त्वत्प्रसादात् कृतार्थः? न मे कर्तव्यम् अस्ति इत्यभिप्रायः।।परिसमाप्तः शास्त्रार्थः। अथ इदानीं कथासंबन्धप्रदर्शनार्थं संजयः उवाच --,संजय उवाच --,
d24b65b55e5f…Rāmānuja
18.73 Arjuna said 'Delusion' or misapprehension is perverted knowledge. By Your grace it has been destroyed. 'Smrti' or memory is the knowledge of things as they really are. I have acired that. Misapprehension here is the misconception that the self is the Prakrti (body-mind) which is the non-self in reality. It consists in one not apprehending that all intelligent and non-intelligent entities, by reason of their forming the body of the Supreme Being, have Him as their Atman and are thus ensouled by Him. The misapprehension also consists in the lack of knowledge that actions, obligatory and occasional, do not cause bondage but actually form a means for the propitiation of the Supreme Being. All such misapprehensions are now destroyed. The various phases of knowledge that cleared the misunderstanding may be catalogued as follows: (1) The self is different from Prakrti and is therefore devoid of the alities of Prakrti. Its nature is that of the knower of Prakrti. (2) The self is a Sesa (sub-ordinate and servant) of the Supreme Person and is ruled by Him. The true knowledge about the Supreme Person is that He is what is signified by the expression Supreme Brahman. (3) He is the great ocean of all auspicious, excellent attributes such as knowledge, strength, glory, valour, power, brilliance etc., which are unbounded and natural. His essence consists solely of auspiciousness. He is antagonistic to all that is evil without exception. The origin, sustentation and dissolution of the entire universe are His sport. (4) You (Sri Krsna) are Vasudeva, the Supreme Person, known from the Vedanta, and who can be reached only by worship, which has taken the form of Bhakti. (5) Bhakti can be achieved by the control of the senses and the mind, the abandonment of prohibited acts and the performance of occasional and obligatory acts as solely intended for the goal of the satisfaction of the Supreme Person. Bhakti has to be developed day after day through the regular practice of the discriminatory knowledge of the higher and lower truths. All this has been attained by me (Arjuna). Therefore I stand steadfast, freed from the doubts and devoid of the depression rooted in perverted knowledge nourished by compassion and love for relatives. Now I shall fulfil Your words, concerned with fighting etc., which ought to be done by me. I shall fight as instructed by You. Such is the meaning. Sanjaya now relates to Dhrtarastra who had estioned him earlier as to what his sons and the Pandavas were doing in the battle:
f5a719aadafc…Swami Sivananda
18.73 नष्टः is destroyed? मोहः delusion? स्मृतिः memory (knowledge)? लब्धा has been gained? त्वत्प्रसादात् through Thy grace? मया by me? अच्युत O Krishna? स्थितः अस्मि I remain? गतसन्देहः freed from doubts? करिष्ये (I) will do? वचनम् word? तव Thy.Commentary Moha Delusion This is the strongest weapon of Maya to take the Jivas in Her clutch. It is born of ignorance. It is the cause of the whole evil of Samsara. It is as hard to cross as the ocean.Smritih I have attained knowledge of the true nature of the Self. The whole aim of Sadhana or spiritual practice and the study of scriptures is the annihilation of delusion and the attainment of the knowledge of the Self. When one gets it? the three knots or ties of ignorance? viz.? ignorance? delusion (desire) and action are destroyed? all the doubts are cleared? and all the Karmas are destroyed.To him who beholds the Self in all beings? what delusion is there? what grief (Isavasya Upanishad? 7)I shall do Thy word Arjuna means to say? I am firm in Thy ?nd. Through Thy grace I have achieved the end of life. I have nothing more to do.
c73091cf4cd6…These supplied texts come from the pinned VedicScriptures dataset under GPL-3.0 and await independent alignment review.