BHAGAVAD GEETA: 83 - Swami Advayananda.

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BHAGAVAD GEETA
Chapter - 2
Discourse – 2 (72 Slogas)
“Yoga of the SUPREME SELF”
Sri Veda Vyasaji

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Saturday 20, Jul 2024, 06:30.
Discourse 2 | Yoga of the Supreme Self  
2.12   THE MAN OF STEADY WISDOM 
(Slogas 54-67, 14 No.
Slogam - 59: Q3:   Overcoming the Inner “Relish” 
Post - 83.

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Slogam - 59: Q3:   Overcoming the Inner “Relish”: 


1.Vishayaah vinivartante = Actually, the Objects of the senses turn away

2. niraahaarasya dehinah; = from the man of abstinence; (and then) 

3.rasavarjam rasah api asya = even the inner Longing of such a man  

4. param drishtvaa nivartate. = turns away upon seeing the Supreme Being.

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 The tortoise example in the previous slogam suggests an effort on the part of the 

aspirant to withdraw from the sense objects. In actual fact, once the person is fairly well 

established in the practice of abstinence, it is the sense objects that keep away from him! 

The objects find that there is no point in lingering around a person who does not entertain 

them, and so they of their own accord they stop harassing him. 


The tortoise that withdraws its limbs represents one step in the response of the 

steady-minded sage. The work is not complete with just that single step, although it is by no 

means a small step. A second step is required. It is called Shama or control of the mind. 

The Inner Longing

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 If the inner longing is not removed, there is every possibility that the person’s 

restraint will “run out of stamina”, and the desire will soon find expression. To stop that 

happening, in Shama one clings to a higher ideal and upholds it. When our actions are 

dedicated to a higher altar, the lower desire loses its pull on us. That secures a more 

permanent freedom from the attraction of sense objects. 


The slogam could also mean that only by realizing the Self is it possible to become 

completely safe from the pull of the senses. Until such realization, there will always be a 

tinge of Rasa or taste for the enjoyment of the sense objects. This Rasa will tug at our senses 

relentlessly, needing us to be fully alert and attentive to withstand all temptations at any 

time. Only the “vision of the Self” can end the very source of the temptations. 


Hence, until the Rasa or Vasana has been removed, the aspirant needs to be vigilant. 

He has to be ever watchful against slipping into inadvertence. He is warned of the following 

danger to spiritual life . . . 

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Slogam: 60:  Q3: Even the Wise Can Succumb

Continued

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