नान्यं गुणेभ्यः कर्तारं यदा द्रष्टाऽनुपश्यति ।
गुणेभ्यश्च परं वेत्ति मङ्गावं सोऽधिगच्छति ॥ १९ ॥
गुणेभ्यश्च परं वेत्ति मङ्गावं सोऽधिगच्छति ॥ १९ ॥
nānyaṃ guṇebhyaḥ kartāraṃ yadā draṣṭā’nupaśyati .
guṇebhyaśca paraṃ vetti maṅgāvaṃ so’dhigacchati .. 19 ..
When the seer beholds not an agent other than the gunas and knows Him who is higher than the gunas, he attains to My being.
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When a man is enlightened and realises that there is no agent other than the gunas which transform themselves into the bodies, senses and sense-objects, when he sees that it is the gunas that in all their modifications constitute the agent in all actions; when he sees Him who is distinct from the gunas, who is the Witness of the gunas and of their functions, then he attains to My being: i.e., seeing that All is Vasudeva, he becomes Vasudeva.*
Then his identity with Brahman becomes manifest.—A.