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Slogam 17

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Bhagavad Gita Chapter 5.17

tad-buddhayas tad-ātmānas

tan-niṣṭhās tat-parāyaṇāḥ

gacchanty apunar-āvṛttiḿ

jñāna-nirdhūta-kalmaṣāḥ

Translation

When one’s intelligence, mind, faith and refuge are all fixed in the Supreme, then one becomes fully cleansed of misgivings through complete knowledge and thus proceeds straight on the path of liberation.

Author Name:-Sri Ramanuja

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Sri Ramanuja

5.17 ‘Those whose intellects pursue It,’ i.e., those who have determined to have the vision of the self in this way; ‘those whose minds think about It,’ i.e., those whose minds have the self for their aim, those who undergo discipline for It, i.e., those who are devoted to the practices for Its attainment; ‘those who hold It as their highest object,’ i.e., those who consider It as their highest goal — such persons, having their previous impurities cleansed by the knowledge which is practised in this way, attain the self as taught. ‘From that state there is no return’ — the state from which there is no return means the state of the self. The meaning is that they attain the self which rests in Its own nature.

Author Name:-Sri Madhvacharya

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Sri Madhavacharya

Lord Krishna declares the means to attain that supra-conscious awareness that illuminates one’s intelligence and leads directly to moksa or liberation from material existence.

Author Name:-Sri Adi Shankaracharya

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Sri Adi Shankaracharya

5.17 Tat-buddhayah, those who have their intellect absorbed in That, [Here Ast. reads ‘tasmin brahmani, in that Brahman’.-Tr.] in the supreme Knowledge which has been revealed; tat-atmanah, whose Self is That, who have That (tat) supreme Brahman Itself as their Self (atma); tat-nisthah, who are steadfast in That-nistha is intentness, exclusive devotion; they are called tat-nisthah who become steadfast only in Brahman by renouncing all actions; and tat-parayanah, who have That as their supreme (para) Goal (ayana), who have That alone as their supreme Resort, i.e. who are devoted only to the Self; those who have got their ignorance destroyed by Knowledge-those who are of this kind-, they gacchanti, attain; apunaravrttim, the state of non-returning, non-association again with a body; jnana-nirdhuta-kalmasah, their dirt having been removed, destroyed, by Knowledge. Those whose dirt (kalmasa), the defect in the form of sin etc., which are the cause of transmigration, have been removed, destryed (nirdhuta), by the aforesaid Knowledge (jnana) are jnana-nirdhuta-kalmasah, i.e. the monks. How do those learned ones, whose ignorance regarding the Self has been destroyed by Knowledge, look upon Reality? That is being stated:

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Slogam 17

Bhagavad Gita Chapter 5.17

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