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Chapter 2
Link:-In the next two verses, Lord Krsna explains the steps to atain the blissful supreme state, which is free from blemish.
yada te mohakalilam buddhirvyatitarigyati
tads gantasi nirvedam srotavyasya srutasya ca
When your intellect crosses the mire of delusion, you will then acquire indifference, to what has been heard and what is yet to he heard, (about enjoyments of this world and the next). 52
Comment:-
Yada te mohakalilam buddhirvyatitarisyati:-The state which favours, egoism in this body and attachment for the body, family, kinsmen and objects, is called delusion. Actually, there is no egoism and attachment, for the body etc. They are merely assumed. Pleasure and displeasure, in favourable and unfavourable circumstances and evils, such as partiality, hatred, envy and jealousy etc., are a quagmire. When the intellect of a man gets entangled in this mire of delusion, he is perplexed and cannot think properly.
He, himself is sentient, but by accepting his affinity for the insentient body and things etc., he identifies himself with them. Thus by closing his eyes to the real goal, he-gets engrossed in worldly pleasure and prosperity. This is called, entanglement in the mire of delusion. But the intellect which takes the firm decision to be free from the worldly pleasures and prosperity and to attain salvation, is called the 'Intellect' transcending the mire of delusion.
There are two means to cross the swamp of delusion—discrimination (2/11—30) and selfless service. Acute discrimination between the real and the unreal, makes one indifferent to the unreal world, and a keen desire for selfless service for the welfare of others, enables one to renounce the desire for one's own pleasures. In the same way as when a disciple for his preceptor, a son for parents, a servant for his master develop a wish for providing all sorts of comforts to them, then their desire for comfort goes away automatically.
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