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॥ श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता ॥ 18.16॥
_तत्रैवं सति
कर्तारमात्मानं केवलं तु यः ।_
_पश्यत्यकृतबुद्धित्वान्न
स पश्यति दुर्मतिः॥_
भावार्थ :
परन्तु ऐसा होने पर भी जो मनुष्य अशुद्ध बुद्धि (सत्संग और शास्त्र के
अभ्यास से तथा भगवदर्थ कर्म और उपासना के करने से मनुष्य की बुद्धि शुद्ध होती है, इसलिए जो उपर्युक्त साधनों से रहित है, उसकी बुद्धि अशुद्ध है, ऐसा समझना चाहिए।)
होने के कारण उस विषय में यानी कर्मों के होने में केवल शुद्ध स्वरूप आत्मा को
कर्ता समझता है, वह मलीन बुद्धि वाला
अज्ञानी यथार्थ नहीं समझता॥१६॥
Meaning:
This being the case, the
one who has an untrained intellect, sees the pure self as the doer. Indeed,
that person of perverted understanding sees not.
EXPLANATION:
We look at the clouds
moving in the sky, and we imagine that the moon is moving, though it is
stationary. We see other vehicles moving and think that our vehicle, which is
stationary, to be moving. The actions of one object can be superimposed on
another object due to optical illusion. Shri Shankaraachaarya provides these
examples in this commentary of this shloka to drive home the point that what we
see or experience may not really be the truth.
Shri Krishna says that our
entire life is steeped in the incorrect notion that we perform actions. With
regards to the analogies taken up, the self is stationary, and Prakriti is
moving. But we do not see this because our intellect is untrained. It is akrita
buddhi. We have not imbibed the knowledge that action is performed by the five
factors mentioned in the prior shlokas. The scriptures, and Shri Krishna, are
repeatedly informing us that ultimately Ishvara’s Prakriti is performing all
the actions, not our self, not the aatmaa, not the eternal essence. But we fail
to see this. We are durmati, we have a perverted understanding.
Unless someone hears this
statement from a teacher well versed in the scriptures, this ancient
misunderstanding never comes up for questioning. The most common understanding
is that the body is the self, the aatmaa. Some other people think that the
jeeva, the individualized soul, is the aatmaa. But both these schools of
thought attribute action to the aatmaa, which is incorrect. Furthermore, even
the results of the actions go to the Prakriti. They do not go to the self, the
aatmaa. The aatmaa is kevala, it is untainted, pure, and incapable of any
change, modification or action. So then, what is the correct understanding?
This is taken up next.
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Jai Shri Krishna 🙏
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