Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 14, Verse 19
नान्यं गुणेभ्यः कर्तारं यदा द्रष्टानुपश्यति । गुणेभ्यश्च परं वेत्ति मद्भावं सोऽधिगच्छति
nānyaṃ guṇebhyaḥ kartāraṃ yadā draṣṭānupaśyati | guṇebhyaśca paraṃ vetti madbhāvaṃ so'dhigacchati
Translation
When the seer beholds not an agent other than the guṇas and knows Him who is higher than the guṇas, he attains to My being.
— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri
Word meanings
- na
- not
- anyam
- other
- guṇebhyaḥ
- than the qualities
- kartāram
- the doer
- yadā
- when
- draṣṭā
- the Seer
- anupaśyati
- sees
- guṇebhyaḥ
- than the qualities
- ca
- and
- param
- the highest
- vetti
- knows
- madbhāvam
- my, to being
- saḥ
- he
- adhigacchati
- goes
Śaṅkarācārya's commentary
When a man is enlightened and realises that there is no agent other than the guṇas which transform themselves into the bodies, senses and sense-objects, when he sees that it is the guṇas that in all their modifications constitute the agent in all actions; when he sees Him who is distinct from the guṇas, who is the Witness of the guṇas and of their functions, then he attains to My being: i.e., seeing that All is Vāsudeva, he becomes Vāsudeva.