Commentary
Each man, devoted to his own duty, attains perfection. How he attains perfection while being engaged in his own duty, hear now.
Within the power of our nature, we must live up fully to our duty. By thus working in the field ordered by one’s own vasanas, renouncing ego and its desires and with a spirit of dedication and total surrender to the Infinite, mind’s evolution starts. How this is achieved is explained in the following verses.
PERFECTION THROUGH PERFORMANCE OF DUTY
Swami Chinmayananda
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Adi Sankara Commentary
Sve sve karmani abhiratah, being devoted to his own duty, which has different characteristics as stated above; narah, man, the person qualified therefor; labhate, attains; samsiddhim, complete success, characterized as the ability for steadfastness in Knowledge, which follows from the elimination of the impurities of body and mind as a result of fulfilling his own duty. Does the complete success follow merely from the fulfilment of one’s own duty? No. How then? Srnu, hear; tat, that; yatha, as to how, through what means; sva- karma-niratah, one devoted to his own duty; vindati, acheives; siddim, success.
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