BHAGAVAD GEETA: 89 - 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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Monday 09, September 2024, 06:01.
Discourse 2 | Yoga of the Supreme Self  
2.12   THE MAN OF STEADY WISDOM 
(Slogas 54-67, 14 No.
Slogam - 65: Q4:  The Interim Prize – A “TRANQUIL” Mind  
Post - 89.

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Slogam - 65: Q4:  The Interim Prize – A “TRANQUIL” Mind  

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Prasaade sarva-duhkhaanaam = In that ‘Prize’, all pains

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haanih asya upajaayate; =  of his get destroyed as they arise; 

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prasanna-chetasah hi aashu =  because of his Tranquil Mind (the Prize), soon 

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buddhih paryava-tishthate. =  his intellect becomes steady. 

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The Sadhaka’s progress towards Happiness continues. He receives an interim prize  for his trouble in controlling his senses and gaining an equipoised mind. 

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 What that ‘prize’ is we will know soon, but from it the Sadhaka is entitled to two 

distinct and separate results:  

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 i) Pains Get Destroyed: This is Step 4, and is due primarily to the absence of likes 

and dislikes in the mind. Likes and dislikes subject one to great pains in life. Their absence 

enables one to sail through life smoothly. Their absence cuts out the everyday disturbances 

such as emotional and mental stress, disappointments, failures, etc. 

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 ii) Intellect Gets Steady: This is Step 5. This is the second benefit bestowed upon 

the Sadhaka by the ‘prize’ resulting from sense-control. Once the intellect is rendered 

steady, it can easily be made one-pointed and concentrated for meditation on the Self for 

lengthy periods. This opens the door to Samadhi, the state of total abidance in the Self, 

which is called Self-realisation.  

Both these results come to one at the same moment – the moment one gains the 

‘prize’. The first detaches the mind from worldliness; the second attaches it to Godliness. 

This is what Swami Sivananda means when he teaches devotees to “Detach and Attach”.  

Now we come to the covetable PRIZE, which has been kept a ‘secret’ so far. 

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 Prasanna-Chetasah: “a tranquil or peaceful mind”. This is Step 3, the Prasad or 

prize of making the effort to keep our senses controlled. It is an interim gift that the mind 

gives to itself. A tranquil mind is a Sattwic mind. The Sattwic mind has sufficient purity and 

clarity to take one through the higher stages of Sadhana. However, it is not the goal yet.

 

Important Note: 

We take note that the ‘prize’ referred to here is the fruit gained 

through sense-control. It is not the Peace that is gained as a result of meditation on the Self. 

The tranquil mind has the peace that enables one to start meditation, and the word used for 

it is Prasaada, the ‘gift’ (of the mind to itself). The next verse unravels what the ultimate 

‘Prize’ is and the term used to describe it. It is this latter Peace that is referred to in the last 

two slogas of this Discourse.  

We have come up to Step 5, a steady intellect. How does it help to reach the Goal? 

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Slogam - 66: Q4: From Steady Intellect to Pure Happiness 

Continued

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