Bhagavad Gita: With the Commentary of Shankaracharya by Swami Gambhirananda

Author:Swami Gambhirananda [Gambhirananda, Swami]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Advaita Ashrama
Published: 2018-09-29T18:30:00+00:00

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FOOTNOTES AND REFERENCES

[40] ‘From You have been heard the origin and dissolution of beings in You.’

[41] The power of accomplishing the impossible.—M.S.

[42] Hari: destroyer of ignorance along with its consequences.

[43] With abundant respect and devotion.

[44] ‘I do not see—because of Your all-pervasiveness.’

[45] Siddha: A semi-divine being supposed to be of great purity and holiness, and said to be particularly characterized by eight supernatural faculties called siddhis.—V.S.A.

[46] Sādhyas: A particular class of celestial beings.—V.S.A.

[47] M.S., Ś., and Ś.S. construe ‘completely...heat’ to qualify ‘fierce rays’ in the second sentence. However, the use of kim ca (moreover) in the Comm. suggests the translation as above.—Tr.

[48] Time: The supreme Bhagavān with His limiting adjunct of the power of action.

[49] Pravrddhah, mighty—according to Ś.—Tr.

[50] Atiratha—see note under 1.4–6.—Tr.

[51] i.e. not narrow-minded.

[52] See footnote 19 of Chapter 1.—Tr.

[53] Dissatisfaction with only a few salutations.

[54] Asṭ. reads ‘śatru-vadha-visaye, in the matter of killing an enemy’.—Tr.

[55] Walking, that is, sport or exercise.

[56] He is the Teacher since He introduced the line of teachers of what is virtue and vice, and of the knowledge of the Self. And He is greater than a teacher because He is the teacher even of Hiranyagarbha and others.

[57] The elision of a (in arhasi of priyāyārhasi) is a metrical licence.

[58] The word ātmanah (who am the Self) does not occur in some editions.—Tr.

[59] ‘By anyone who has not received My grace’.

[60] This separate mention of the study of sacrifices is necessary because the ancients understood the study of Vedas to mean learning them by rote.

[61] A religious observance or expiatory penance regulated by the moon’s phases. In it the daily quantity of food, which consists of fifteen mouthfuls at the full-moon, is curtailed by one mouthful during the dark fortnight till it is reduced to nothing at the new moon; and it is increased in a like manner during the bright fortnight.—V.S.A.

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