Quote from Abhinavagupta's Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita (Gitartha - Samgraha)
Abhinavagupta's Commentary on the Bhadavad Gita (Gitarthan - Samgraha)
Translated from Sanskrit with an Introduction by Boris Marjanovic
Rudra Press, Portland, Oregon, 2002. 378.Bhadavad Gita 3:1-2
Arjuna said:
1. If you consider that knowledge is better than action,
O'Janardana, why do you spur me to engage in this terrible deed, O Kesava?
2. With these apparently opposed statements you are confusing my intelligence. Tell me definitely once and for all your final decision by which I may attain the highest good.
Commentary
The Nature of knowledge and action has been previously explained. At that time it was rightly pointed out that, on the path of liberation, knowledge plays the dominate role. Having this in mind, Arjuna asks the following question: If we accept the principle that the result of both good and bad actions should be abandoned (as laid down in Chapter 2, verse 52), then why at all does one need to perform action?
This is how the Lord answers this question.
Bhadavad Gita 3:3
3. As taught by Me since ancient time, O Blamless One, there are in this world two kinds of disciplines: the Yoga of knowledge for Samkhyas and the Yoga of action for yogins.
Commentary
In this world there are two well-known paths (on the road to liberation), i.e., Samkhya and Yoga. Samkhya is the path of knowledge and Yoga is the path of action. The Lord combines and presents both of these paths in one because knowledge (jnana) and action (kriya) are the very nature of consciousness.
-- pages 59-60
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