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GITA-RAHASYA OR KARMA-YOGA
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$$ ज्ञानेन तु तदज्ञानं येषां नाशितमात्मनः।
तेषामादित्यवज्ज्ञानं प्रकाशयति तत्परम् ॥१६॥ तद्बुद्धयस्तदात्मानस्तनिष्ठास्तत्परायणाः।
गच्छन्त्यपुनरावृत्तिं ज्ञाननिषूतकल्मषाः ॥ १७॥ ६ विद्याविनयसंपन्ने ब्राह्मणे गवि हस्तिनि।।
शुनि चैव श्वपाके च पण्डिताः समदर्शिनः ॥ १८॥ इहैव तैर्जितः सर्गो येषां साम्ये स्थितं मनः। निर्दोषं हि समं ब्रह्म तस्माद्ब्रह्मणि ते स्थिताः ॥ १९ ॥
(16) But those, whose own such Ignorance has been destroyed by Knowledge, their knowledge throws light on the Highest Principle like the Sun ; (17) and those, whose Reason has become engrossed in this Highest Principle, whose Internal Sense (antahkarana) has found happiness in It, and become fixed on it, and devoted to It, their sin is entirely washed away by Knowledge; and they do not come to birth again.
[The Blessed Lord now gives a further description of the state of the 'brahma-bhūta' (merged in the Brahman) or jāvanmukta (Released in this lite) state of these KarmaYogins (not Samnyāsins), whose Ignorance has thus been destroyed-1
(18) Those who have become Pandits (that is, Jñānins), their vision is the same towards the Brahmin endowed with Knowledge and humility, as towards a cow, or an elephant, or a dog, or a caņdāla. (19) Those, whose Mind, has thus become steady in a state of Equability, conquer the mortal world, wherever they are that is, without having to wait for death); because, the Brahman is faultless and equable; therefore, these persons (with an equable Reason) are (always) merged in the Brahman (that is, they have become brahma-bhūta already in this world).
[ This is a repetition of the statement in the Upanisads that he, who has Realised that the Atman-formed Parameśvara is a Non-Doer, and that the entire activity is.
