Sāṅkhya Yoga

2.72

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Sanskrit · Devanagari

एषा ब्राह्मी स्थितिः पार्थ नैनां प्राप्य विमुह्यति। स्थित्वास्यामन्तकालेऽपि ब्रह्मनिर्वाणमृच्छति ॥

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eṣā brāhmī sthitiḥ pārtha naināṃ prāpya vimuhyati sthitvāsyāmantakāle.api brahmanirvāṇamṛcchati

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Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882
This, O son of Pṛthā! is the Brahmic state attaining to this, one is never deluded and remaining in it in (one's) last moments, one attains ( brahma - nirvāṇa ) the Brahmic bliss.

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Commentary · Sanskrit

Śaṅkarācārya

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।।2.72।। एषा यथोक्ता ब्राह्मी ब्रह्मणि भवा इयं स्थितिः सर्वं कर्म संन्यस्य ब्रह्मरूपेणैव अवस्थानम् इत्येतत्। हे पार्थ न एनां स्थितिं प्राप्य लब्ध्वा न विमुह्यति न मोहं प्राप्नोति। स्थित्वा अस्यां स्थितौ ब्राह्म्यां यथोक्तायां अन्तकालेऽपि अन्त्ये वयस्यपि ब्रह्मनिर्वाणं ब्रह्मनिर्वृतिं मोक्षम् ऋच्छति गच्छति। किमु वक्तव्यं ब्रह्मचर्यादेव संन्यस्य यावज्जीवं यो ब्रह्मण्येव अवतिष्ठते स ब्रह्मनिर्वाणमृच्छति इति।।इति श्रीमत्परमहंसपरिव्राजकाचार्यस्य श्रीगोविन्दभगवत्पूज्यपादशिष्यस्य श्रीमच्छंकरभगवतः कृतौ श्रीमद्भगवद्गीताभाष्येद्वितीयोऽध्यायः।।

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Rāmānuja

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2.72 This state of performing disinterested work which is preceded by the knowledge of the eternal self and which is characterised by firm wisdom, is the Brahmi-state, which secures the attainment of the Brahman (the self). After attaining such a state, he will not be deluded, i.e., he will not get again the mortal coil. Reaching this state even during the last years of life, he wins the blissful Brahman (the self) i.e., which is full of beatitude. The meaning is that he attains the self which is constituted of nothing but bliss. Thus in the second chapter, the Lord wanted to remove the delusion of Arjuna, who did not know the real nature of the self and also did not realize that the activity named 'war' (here an ordained duty) is a means for attaining the nature of Sankhya or the self. Arjuna was under the delusion that the body is itself the self, and dominated by that delusion, had retreated from battle. He was therefore taught the knowledge called 'Sankhya' or the understanding of the self, and Yoga or what is called the path of practical work without attachment. These together have as their objective the attainment of steady wisdom (Sthitaprajnata) This has been explained in the following verse by Sri Yamunacarya: Sankhya and Yoga, which comprehend within their scope the understanding of the eternal self and the practical way of disinterested action respectively, were imparted in order to remove Arjuna's delusion. Through them the state of firm wisdom can be reached.

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Commentary · English

Swami Sivananda

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2.72 एषा this? ब्राह्मी of Brahmic? स्थितिः state? पार्थ O Partha? न not? एनाम् this? प्राप्य having obtained? विमुह्यति is deluded? स्थित्वा being established? अस्याम् in this? अन्तकाले at the end of life? अपि even? ब्रह्मनिर्वाणम् oneness with Brahman? ऋच्छति attains.Commentary The state described in the previous verse -- to renounce everything and to live in Brahman -- is the Brahmic state or the state of Brahman. If one attains to this state one is never deluded. He attains Moksha if he stays in that state even at the hour of his death. It is needless to say that he who gets establised in Brahman throughout his life attains to the state of Brahman or,BrahmaNirvana (Cf.VIII.5?6).Maharshi Vidyaranya says in his Panchadasi that Antakala here means the moment at which Avidya or mutual superimposition of the Self and the notSelf ends.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 second discourse entitledThe Sankhya Yoga.,

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