The Bhagavadgîtâ, with the Sanatsugâtîya and the Anugîtâ — SBE Vol. 8 (trans. K. T. Telang, 1882)
The translator’s English as printed (K. T. Telang). The original-language text is not held; names are romanised as the translator printed them.
* Scil. regarding family-rites, &c., for, says Nîlakaṇṭha, they indicate knowledge of soul as distinct from body.
* A common word in the Gita, that which presides over each individual body.
* Scil. with external objects. * Le. the ‘contacts.’
* The sense is this—there are two things apparently, the soul which is indestructible, and the feelings of pain &c. which ‘come and go. The true philosopher knows that the former only is real and exists; and that the latter is unreal and non-existent. He therefore does not mind the latter.
* Scil. by those who are possessed of true knowledge.
* That is, regarding family-rites, &c., for, says Nîlakaṇṭha, they indicate knowledge of soul as distinct from body.
* A common word in the Gita, meaning that which presides over each individual body.
* That is, with external objects. * That is, the 'contacts.'
* The meaning is this: there are apparently two things—the soul, which is indestructible, and feelings such as pain, which come and go. The true philosopher knows that only the former is real and exists, and that the latter is unreal and non-existent. He therefore pays no attention to the latter.
* That is, by those who are possessed of true knowledge.