Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-2
Sankhya and Yoga
52. when your mind passes beyond the maze of delusion, then you will become indifferent to what has been heard and what is yet to be heard. You will reach this state, when you will get rid of delusion and make room for dispassion in your mind (276-280). Then you will attain spotless and deep knowledge of the self and your mind will become desireless of its own accord. Then O Arjuna, your desire for more and more knowledge or the need to remember to your former knowledge will come to an end. 53. When your mind, bewildered by hearing, will become unshakeable and steady in contemplation then you will attain to Yoga.Then the mind which wanders after the senses becomes steady in the contemplation of the self. When your intellect becomes steady in the joy of contemplation, you will achieve this full yogic state. Arjuna said: 54. What is the mark of sthitaprajna steadfast in samadhi, O Krishna, how does a person of steady wisdom talk, how does he sit, how does he walk? There upon Arjuna said, ‘I am going to ask you what is in my mind, O compassionate Lord, please reply to it (281-285)’. Krishna replied, ‘Arjuna please be free to ask whatever thoughts occur in your mind’. Hearing these words Arjuna asked, O Krishna, please tell me how one should recognise a person of steady wisdom. Who is said to be a man of steady wisdom? By what marks is he to be known, who constantly enjoys the joy of contemplation? In what state does he remain? How does he appear? O Lord of wealth, tell me all this. Then Lord Krishna, who is God incarnated and the ground of the four virtues, began to speak (286–290).
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