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Chapter 18
Atmabuddhiprasadajam:- The mind, instead of attaching importance to honour, praise, pleasure and prosperity, thinks only of God. This thinking gives placidity of mind [1]. From placidity of mind accrues sattvika happiness. It means that when a man being totally detached from mundane contact born pleasure, gets his mind, merged in meditation on God, the happiness experienced is said to be sattvika.
Yattadagre visamiva:- By the terms 'Yat' (which) and 'tat' (that), the Lord means to convey, that Sattvika happiness, has not yet been experienced or felt. A striver, has the only aim, to gain it, but he experiences rajasika and tamasika pleasures. So he faces difficulty in abandoning rajasika and tamasika pleasure, because he has been enjoying these, since several births. But, he has not yet relished Sattvika happiness. So having no real experience of Sattvika happiness, he initially finds it most unpleasant, like poison.
In fact, Sattvika happiness initially, is not like poison, but it is unpleasant like poison, to abandon rajasika and tamasika pleasure. As a boy, takes more interest in play and recreation, than in studies in the beginning, because he does not know the importance of studies. But, when he goes on studying and gets success in examination, he becomes interested in studies, and then he attaches more importance to it. Similarly, people, who are attached to tamasika and rajasika pleasure feel sattvika happiness, like poison. But to those strivers, who are not attached to mundane pleasure, who have an inclination for the study of scriptures, for good company, loud chanting of divine name, meditation and adoration etc., and whose knowledge, actions, intellect and firmness, are sattvika, this happiness is like nectar, to them from the very beginning. It is not unpleasant, taxing and irksome to them.
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