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Chapter 15
If he renounces the desire to acquire the object he cannot feel happy on getting the object or sad on not getting that object.
In fact, mundane objects have no independent existence, as they are perishing all the time. So how the desire for such transitory objects can remain lasting? Thus all strivers, can be freed from desires.
Dvandvairvimuktah sukhaduhkhasanjfiaih:- Devotees are liberated from contrary experiences, known as pleasure and pain, attachment and aversion, because according to them, all the favourable and unfavourable circumstances, are regarded as God's gift, presented to them, by Him. They have an eye on God's grace, rather than on desirable or undesirable circumstances. So they are easily liberated from the pairs of opposites.
God is a disinterested friend, of all beings (Gita 5129). So He never think, of evil of His fragment, the soul (self). Whatever, He does, is only for the welfare, of beings. So devotees, ever remain pleased, with His will. Though their senses, mind and intellect, know of desirable and the undesirable circumstances, yet they themselves, are free from the pairs of opposites.
An Important Fact
This contrary experience (of attachment and aversion etc.,) is the root of sins. In order, to renounce such experience a striver, should not attach importance to perishable objects. This opposite feeling is of two kinds
(1) Gross (practical) contrary experience between pleasure and pain, a agreeable and disagreeable etc. Beings, including men, birds, beasts and even trees etc., desire the agreeable and have an aversion for the disagreeable.
(2) Subtle (Spiritual) opposite feelings. It is essential and useful, to regard one's own way of adoration, and one's own favourite Deity, as supreme. But the sentiment in which a striver, honours and praises his method of worship, and his favourite deity, regarding them as superior, to the worship and deity of others whom he discredits and blames, by considering them, inferior, is harmful for a striver.
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