Commentary on the Srimad Bhagavad Gita- Discourse 5.10. - Swami Krishnananda.

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Sunday, November 08, 2020. 10:59. AM.

Discourse 5: The Second Chapter Concludes – The Establishment of the Soul in Universality - 10.

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In a cloth shop, we can get cloth. In a cutlery shop, we can get cutlery. In a grocery shop, we can get groceries. But we cannot get what is not there. 

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This world is the shop where there is sorrow—# duhkhalayam—and, therefore, we will reap only sorrow if we are tethered to the demands of the sense organs. The whole of yoga is nothing but the restraining of the powers of the sense organs, which compel us to think in terms of the anatman, and centring it in the Atman. It is a movement from the centrifugality of the sensory activity to the centripetality of the soul’s contemplation on itself.

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# "Tada drastuh svarūpe avasthanam; vrtti sarupyam itaratra (Y.S. 1.3-4)."

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These are Patanjali’s sutras : 

When you are established in your own Self, the vrittis of the mind cease; but when you are not established in the Self, the mind operates in terms of the vrittis and compels you to know the world as an outside object, and at the same time compels you to want it or not want it. 

Apuryamanam acalapratistham samudram apah pravisanti yadvat, tadvat kama yam pravisanti sarve sa santim apnoti na kamakami (2.70).. 

Who will have peace in this world? Only that person can have peace into whom all desires conceivable in the world enter, like rivers enter into the ocean. “Let there be millions of desires; I shall absorb them into myself, into the Universality that I am, like the ocean.” Any number of rivers can touch the ocean, and the ocean is not tired of absorbing them. All the desires, together with the objects of desire, are melted down into this oceanic consciousness of the realisation of the sthitaprajnata. As the ocean is filled with the waters of all the rivers, so is the sthitaprajna filled with all the values that we can think of, earthly or heavenly. Most blessed is this state of being a realised soul—that is to say, a soul that has established itself in its own Universality, and therefore wants nothing, and therefore is the happiest person.

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End.

NEXT : The Third Chapter Begins: The Relation Between Sankhya and Yoga

To be continued 

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