Commentary on the Bhagavadgita - 12- 4. Swami Krishnananda.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, September 10, 2021. 9:10. PM. Discourse 12 : THE FIFTH CHAPTER CONTINUES : THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A PERFECTED PERSON : 4. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gita- Ch-5, Slo-17. Tadbuddhayastadātmānastanniṣṭhāstatparāyaṇāḥ gacchantyapunarāvṛttiṃ jñānanirdhūtakalmaṣāḥ One can attain to this state of utter perfection free from the goodness or the badness of things, or the qualities of prakriti, by intense concentration on the transcendence which is God. God is untarnished because of there being no change, no mutation, no difference, no physicality, and no externality in God. Meditation is to be conducted by the consciousness of the seeker on a universal transcendence of its own self, freed from the clutches of whatever the world may appear to be. Tadbuddhayah : T...