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Bhagavad Gita · Karma Sannyasa YogaChapter 5, Shloka 19 (5.19)

Original Sanskrit · श्रीभगवान्

इहैव तैर्जितः सर्गो येषां साम्ये स्थितं मनः
निर्दोषं हि समं ब्रह्म तस्माद् ब्रह्मणि ते स्थिताः
॥ 5.19 ॥

ihaiva tairjitaḥ sargo yeṣāṃ sāmye sthitaṃ manaḥ
nirdoṣaṃ hi samaṃ brahma tasmād brahmaṇi te sthitāḥ

Translation

"Those whose mind is established in equality have conquered the world here itself (in this very life); for Brahman is flawless and the same — therefore they are established in Brahman."

Interpretation

Shankaracharya — liberation while living, and the question of fault. Iha eva jīvadbhir eva — while still alive; jitaḥ vaśīkṛtaḥ sargaḥ janma — they have conquered birth. Nirdoṣam — yadyapi doṣavatsu śvapākādiṣu mūḍhaiḥ tad-doṣair doṣavat iva vibhāvyate tathāpi tad-doṣair aspṛṣṭam — deluded people think Brahman too is faulty because of the "faults" of the shvapaka and others, but Brahman is untouched by them. Here Shankara answers the objection of 5.18: na doṣa-gandha-mātram api tān spṛśati — not even a whiff of fault touches those of equal vision; the smriti rule on worship is dehādi-saṅghātātma-darśanābhimānavad-viṣayam — only for those who identify with the body.

Acharya Ramanuja — "brahma" = the pure self. Nirdoṣaṃ hi samaṃ brahma prakṛti-saṃsarga-doṣa-viyuktatayā samam ātma-vastu hi brahma — here "Brahman" is the self, which is equal once free of the fault of contact with prakriti; ātma-sāmye sthitāḥ ced brahmaṇi sthitā eva te — if they are established in the equality of selves, they are established in Brahman itself; brahmaṇi sthitiḥ eva hi saṃsāra-jayaḥ. And iha eva sādhanānuṣṭhāna-daśāyām eva — already in the stage of spiritual practice.

The difference: "Brahman" — for Shankara, the one non-dual supreme reality; for Ramanuja, here the pure nature of the self (all selves being equal in the form of knowledge).

AI-assisted draft translation — under review.

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