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Gita Madhurya -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter II
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What will be the result of equanimity, O Lord? Wisemen endowed with equanimity, renouncing the fruit of actions and freed from the shackles of birth, attain the blissful supreme state.(51) When should I think that I have renounced the fruit of action? When your intellect transcends the mire of delusion, you will grow dispassionate to the pleasures heard and those yet to be heard (enjoyed and unenjoyed).(52) When shall I attain equanimity having become dispassionate? When your intellect, confused by hearing conflicting statements, has become poised and firmly fixed in equilibrium, you will attain Yoga (equanimity).(53) Arjuna said—"What is the mark of the soul, stable of mind and established equanimity?"' The Blessed Lord said—"When a man abandons all cravings of the mind and is satisfied in the self by the self, he is called a man of stable mind.(54-55) How does the man of stable mind speak? O brother, his speech instead of an act is in the form of emotion. He whose mind remains unperturbed in sorrows, who does not crave for happiness, who is free from passion, fear and anger, is called stable of mind. Such a man remains unattached everywhere. he is neither delighted nor dejected at meeting with good and evil. His intellect becomes stable viz., his determination for God-realization comes true.(56-57) |
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