Bhagavad Gita Bhasya of Sri Sankaracarya (Shankaracharya)Description. From the Jacket : Srimad Bhagavad Gita is now widely recognized as a Scriptural Text of worldwide importance. It was Sri Sankaracharya who first brought it out into prominence from the vast mass of Mahabharata literature, fixed its contents to the seven hundred verses that now constitute it, and produced the first extant commentary on it. Not only that, he gave it the status of one of the Prasthanas (Foundation Texts) of Vedanta, and the lead he thus gave has been accepted by all succeeding Acharyas of even schools of Vedanta that are opposed to his school. Therefore, for all lovers of the Gita the interpretation that the great Acharya gave to this Text is of great importance. The present work, giving both the Sanskrit text of Sankara's commentary and its exact but lucid English translation by Dr. Original Sanskrit Brahma Sutra Bhashya by Adi Shankaracharya.Telugu » adi shankaracharya. Pravachanas in Adi Shankaracharya. Speakers Audio Files# Pravachanams#. Adi Sankara’s and Ramanujacharya’s Gita Bhashya Online. Adi Sankara’s and Ramanujacharya’s Gita Bhashya Online. Bhagavad Gita Bhashya of Sri Adi Shankaracharya. Presented here is the Bhagavad Gita with the commentary of Sri Adi Sankaracharya translated by Swami. Sringeri Sharada Peetham. Works of Sri Adi Shankaracharya. Prasthanatraya Bhashyam; Prakarana Granthas. Bramha Sutra and Srimad Bhagavat Gita. Bhagavad Gita Bhasya of Sri Sankaracarya (Shankaracharya). Shri Shankaracharya's Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, Brahma Sutras and the Upanishads. Krishna Warrier, is an attempt to meet the needs both of Sanskrit scholars, and of those who can approach the contents of the commentary only through the help of the English language. About the Author . The translator, Dr. Krishna Warrier, is a retired Professor of Sanskrit and Tagore Professor of the Kerala University. He is an accomplished scholar in Vedanta Philosophy as well as in modern Western Philosophy. He has to his credit several books on Vedanta, two of the most important of them being 'Concept of Mukti in Advaita' and 'God in Advaita'. He was for some time a Visiting Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study. Preface. There has been persistent demand from our readers from an edition of Srimad Bhagavad Gita Containing Sri Samkaracarya’s commentary on it in the original with a lucid translation in English. We have therefore great pleasure in presenting this volume with the Sanskrit original edited and translated into English by Dr. Krishna Warrier Curator, Adayar Library, Madras, Dr. Warrier who is an accomplished Sanskrit scholar and also well versed in philosophy both eastern and western has worked in several centers of learning and has to his credit a number of outstanding works like God in Advaita concept of Mukti in Advaita and a Malayalam rendering of Sri Sankara’s Brahmasutra Bhashya. The discerning reader will not how the English translation in this book makes pleasant reading without loss of precision or fidelity to the original. We are extremely grateful to Dr. Warrier for this labor of love. This however poses a problem to most of the readers who cannot be expected to be familiar with the intricacies of Sanskrit grammar and so are put to the trouble of having to delink the words carefully in order to understand their purport. We have therefore thought it expedient to split the long phrases, so that each word stands by itself as in English and other modern languages. We crave the indulgence of the sticklers fro Paninian grammar for this innovation meant for the convenience of the many. After long fought battle among them there is a sort of consensus among scholars today that the text of the Bhagavad Gita Samkara fixed long ago, viz 7. Some modern scholars both Indian and foreign as a matter of course pay tribute to Samkara’s scholarship intellectual power and supreme insight they hope thus to make their attack on his commentary look as if it is their scrupulous regard for objective facts that has obliged them to indulge in it. For instance Tilak observes Sri Samkara was an extraordinary power established the system of atavistic thought on the firm foundation of the religion of the Vedas. It is no exaggeration to say that the world has not known a sage and philosopher as eminent as Samkara. He remarks that Jnanesvara has written his celebrated commentary on the Bhagavad Gita in Marathi in the light of Samkara’s Advaitic doctrines. Nevertheless Tilak rejects Samkara’s interpretation of it as sectarian and deems as objective his own view that the Gita establishes the preeminence of Karma as an independent means to win moksa or the summum bonum. Hill a much admired translator of the Gita writes. The famous of the Advaita School of Vedanta philosophy Samkara was a brilliant scholar gifted with one of the acutest intellects in history. His Gita bhasya is full of keen argument but not even the subtely of a samkara can conceal the fact that the Advaita and the Gita systems are not at one. Nor is he able, in face of plain texts to the contrary, to make good his claim that the Git. But it may be noted that Hill refuses to face the force of texts. BG. 4. 3. 7 and 3. He concludes his critical remarks thus: The Philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita more nearly approximates to that of the Visistadvaita, though he demurely protests in the words, . Zaehner, Spalding professor, who succeeded Dr. Radhakrishnan in that chair. He talks of the founder of the extreme school of Vedantic non- dualism, Samkara, and of the commentary of the “modified non- dualist R. The present situation as regards Git. Witness Samkara’s remarks in the introduction to his commentary on the Gita but its sense is difficult to grasp. Many have striven to elucidate its words their imports and their totality as a reasoned treatise. The public however has got it as a mass of self contradictory ideas. Noting their plight I shall set forth its contents briefly elucidating the text with due discrimination. Therefore now as in Samkara’s days the discriminating student has no option but to turn to the guidance offered by him. Hence it is of the utmost importance to follow Samkara’s subtle has no option but to turn to the guidance offered by him. Hence it is of the utmost importance to follow Samkara’s subtle arguments as painstakingly as loyally as possible to get at the heart of the perennial philosophy embodied in the Gita. Note that in contrast Tilak writes that the aim of the Gita is to set forth Karma yoga which is rooted in Jnana in which Bhakti is dominant and which ultimately lead to moksa Jnanamulaka bhaktipradhana karmayoga. Tilak does not seem to have attempted a formal definition of Moksa though he has devoted several pages in his Gitarahasya to the repudiation of Samkara’s ideas on this pivotal concept. We shall examine briefly in due course Samkara’s attempts to substantiate his well though out doctrine of Moksa in the light of Gita statements on it. An elaborate elucidation of it may be found in B. S. B whose upshot is that he alone is eligible of Moksa who is equipped with the Sadhana catustayam or fourfold discipline. In its briefest form adhikara is that state of mind which wholeheartedly prays asato ma sadgamaya tamaso ma jyotirgamaya mrtyorma amrtam gamaya. Lead me from the false to the true from darkness to light and from death to immortality. That the Gita seeks to liberate man to make him free by revealing the light of truth is indisputably clear from its carama sloka or valedictory verse whose climax is moksayisyami I shall liberate you. Whether this verse is taken to stress bhakti or jnana is a matter of detail it points to emancipation or Brahmabhava or attaining the nature of Brahman. CONTENTS. Introduction. List of Abbreviations. Gita Dhyanam. Commentator's Introduction.
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