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[ Desire, if not gratified, results in wrath. Thus say the commentators.]
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[ Prajahi is explained by both Sankara and Sreedhara as parityaja (cast off).]
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[ He is the Supreme Soul or Being.]
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[ There can be little doubt that what Krishna says here is that no form of worship is unacceptable to him. Whatever the manner of the worship, it is I who is worshipped. After K. T. Telang’s exhaustive and effective reply to Dr. Lorinser’s strange hypothesis of the Gita having been composed under Christian influences, it is scarcely necessary to add that such toleration would ill accord with the theory of the Christian authorship of the poem.]
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[ i.e., both inactive and undecaying. Work implies exertion, and, therefore, loss of energy. In me there is no action, no loss of energy and therefore, no decay.]