श्रद्धावाननसूयश्च शृणुयादपि यो नरः ।
सोऽपि मुक्तः शुभाँल्लोकान्प्राप्नुयात्पुण्यकर्मणाम् ॥ ७१ ॥
सोऽपि मुक्तः शुभाँल्लोकान्प्राप्नुयात्पुण्यकर्मणाम् ॥ ७१ ॥
śraddhāvānanasūyaśca śṛṇuyādapi yo naraḥ .
so’pi muktaḥ śubhā~llokānprāpnuyātpuṇyakarmaṇām .. 71 ..
And the man also who hears, full of faith and free from malice even he, liberated, shall attain to the happy worlds of the righteous.
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Even he : much more so he who understands the doctrine. Liberated : from sin. The righteous : those who have performed Agnihotra or such other sacrifices.
The Lord assured by Arjuna of his grasp of the Teaching.
The Lord now asks with a desire to know whether the pupil has understood or not the teaching of the sastra, the object of the question being that He might make the pupil understand the teaching by some other means, if the latter be found to have not understood it. And this is to show that it is the duty of the teacher to try again to make the pupil understand the teaching and enable him to attain his object,