नान्यं गुणेभ्यः कर्तारं यदा द्रष्टानुपश्यति ।
गुणेभ्यश्च परं वेत्ति मद्भावं सो’धिगच्छति ॥
nānyaṁ guṇebhyaḥ kartāraṁ yadā draṣṭānupaśyati |
guṇebhyaś ca paraṁ vetti mad-bhāvaṁ so’dhigacchati ||
(Śrīmad Bhagavad-gītā: 14.19)
“When a seer perceives
No doer other than the guṇas
And knows that which is beyond the guṇas,
One attains my state.”
Commentary
tad evaṁ prakṛti-guṇa-saṅga-kṛtaṁ saṁsāra-prapañcam uktvā idānīṁ tad-vivekato mokṣaṁ darśayati—nānyam iti | yadā tu draṣṭā vivekī bhūtvā buddhy-ādy-ākāra-pariṇatebhyo guṇebhyo’nyaṁ kartāraṁ nānupaśyati, api tu guṇā eva karmāṇi kurvantīti paśyati | guṇebhyaś ca paraṁ vyatiriktaṁ tat-sākṣiṇam ātmānaṁ vetti | sa tu mad-bhāvaṁ brahmatvam adhigacchati prāpnoti ||
(Subodhinī-ṭīkā)
“Thus, in this way having described the manifoldness of saṁsāra produced by contact with the guṇas of prakṛti, he now shows mokṣa as a result of discernment thereof: nānyam … [i.e., Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa states this verse]. When, on the contrary, being a seer (draṣṭā), that is, a discerner (vivekī), one perceives no doer other than the guṇas, which are transformed into the forms of the intellect and so forth, rather sees that only the guṇas perform actions, and knows that which is beyond (param) the guṇas, that is, the witness (sākṣī) thereof, the self (ātmā), one attains (adhigacchati) ‘my state’ (mad-bhāvam), that is, Brahman-ness (Brahmatva).”