Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 18, Verse 14

Contents

• 1 अधिष्ठानं तथा कर्ता करणं च पृथग्विधम् |
• 2 विविधाश्च पृथक्चेष्टा दैवं चैवात्र पञ्चमम् ||
• 3 भावार्थ:
• 4 Translation

अधिष्ठानं तथा कर्ता करणं च पृथग्विधम् |

विविधाश्च पृथक्चेष्टा दैवं चैवात्र पञ्चमम् ||

adhiṣhṭhānaṁ tathā kartā karaṇaṁ cha pṛithag-vidham
vividhāśh cha pṛithak cheṣhṭā daivaṁ chaivātra pañchamam

भावार्थ:

इस विषय में अर्थात कर्मों की सिद्धि में अधिष्ठान (जिसके आश्रय कर्म किए जाएँ, उसका नाम अधिष्ठान है) और कर्ता तथा भिन्न-भिन्न प्रकार के करण (जिन-जिन इंद्रियादिकों और साधनों द्वारा कर्म किए जाते हैं, उनका नाम करण है) एवं नाना प्रकार की अलग-अलग चेष्टाएँ और वैसे ही पाँचवाँ हेतु दैव (पूर्वकृत शुभाशुभ कर्मों के संस्कारों का नाम दैव है) है॥14॥

Translation

The body, the doer, the various senses, the many kinds of efforts, and Divine Providence—these are the five factors of action.

English Translation Of Sri Shankaracharya’s Sanskrit Commentary By Swami Gambirananda

18.14 Adhisthanam, the locus, the body, which is the seat, the basis, of the manifestation of desire, hatred, happiness, sorrow, knowledge, etc.; tatha, as also karta, the agent, the enjoyer [The individual Self which has intelligence etc. as its limiting adjuncts, due to which it appears to possess their characteristics and become identified with them.] who has assumed the characteristics of the limiting adjuncts; prthak vidham, the different kinds of; karanam, organs, the ears etc. which, twelve [The five organs of knowledge (eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin), the five organs of actions (hands, feet, speech, organ of excertion and that of generation), the mind and the intellect.] in number, are of different kinds for the experience of sound etc.; the vividhah, many; and prthak, distinct; cesta, activities connected with air-exhalation, inhalation, etc.; ca eva, and; daivam, the divine, i.e. the Sun and the others who are the presiding deities of the eye etc.; is atra, here, in relation to these four; pancamam, the fifth-completing the five.

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