Bhagavad Gita, The Song of God - Chapter-2.52: Swami Mukundananda.

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Thursday 11, Jul 2024. 06:50.
Srimad Bhagavad Gita:
Chapter 2: Sankhya Yogam:52
The Yogam of Analytical Knowledge

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Slogam-52.

"yada te moha-kalilam buddhir vyatitarishyati

tada gantasi nirvedam shrotavyasya shrutasya cha."

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yada—when; 

te—your; 

moha—delusion; 

kalilam—quagmire; 

buddhih—intellect; 

vyatitarishyati—crosses; 

tada—then; 

gantasi—you shall acquire; 

nirvedam—indifferent; 

shrotavyasya—to what is yet to be heard; 

shrutasya—to what has been heard; 

cha—and.

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Translation:

BG 2.52: 

"When your intellect crosses the quagmire of delusion, you will then acquire indifference to what has been heard and what is yet to be heard (about enjoyments in this world and the next)."

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Commentary:

Shree Krishna had previously said that people who are attached to worldly enjoyment get attracted to the flowery words of the Vedas, which propagate ostentatious rituals for gaining worldly opulences and attaining the celestial abodes (Slogas 2.42–2.43). However, one whose intellect is illumined with spiritual knowledge no longer seeks material sense pleasures, knowing them to be harbingers of misery. Such a person then loses interest in Vedic rituals. 

“Realized sages go beyond Vedic rituals, after understanding that the pleasures one attains from fruitive karmas, in this life and in the celestial abodes, are temporary and mixed with misery.”


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Continued

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