[Advaita-l] Fwd: 'Jīvo Brahmaiva' eminently endorsed in the Bhagavad Gita

[V Subrahmanian]

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In the 15th chapter of the Bh.Gita we have this verse:

उत्क्रामन्तं स्थितं वापि भुञ्जानं वा गुणान्वितम् ।
विमूढा नानुपश्यन्ति पश्यन्ति ज्ञानचक्षुषः ॥ १० ॥ 15.10

Persons who are diversely deluded do not see* It even when It is leaving* *or
residing (in this body), or experiencing, or in association* *with the
qualities*. Those with the eye of knowledge see.

The verse occurs in the context of the jiva experiencing the outside
objects and thereby, samsara (verse 9). The verse prior to that is about
the jiva exiting this body to take up another body, after death (verse 8).
In the 7th verse Bhagavan says that the jiva is an 'amsha' of Brahman and
is endowed with sense, motor organs and the mind (inner organ).
Bhagavatpada in the Bhashyam has clarified that the 'amsha - part' is not
to be literally taken as Brahman does not have parts and hence is to be
seen as 'imagined' to be a jiva, owing to the body-mind-complex upadhis, as
a part of Brahman.