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Chapter 2
The Discipline of Knowledge, is somewhat difficult to practise, because the desire for pleasure may linger on in it. When a striver comes across pleasures, he deviates from his spiritual path and inclines towards them. But a striver who has the feeling for service to others, utilizes the material for the service of others, and thus his desire for pleasures perishes easily. Therefore, Lord Krsna has mentioned the Discipline of Disinterested Action, as superior to and easier than the Discipline of Knowledge (5/2-3) and by it a striver quickly reaches Brahma—the Absolute (5/6).
Tads gantasinirvedarir srotavyasya srvtasya ea:-The pleasure which men have enjoyed and heard* of and also the pleasures of heaven etc., which are yet to be heard of, are transient. So, how can they give peace and joy to the man's self which is permanent? Thus men become dispassionate. When intellect gets out of the mire of delusion, then acute discrimination is developed that the world is ephemeral while he (the self) is eternal and therefore, how could the kaleidoscopic world provide peace to him? With this attitude of mind, he automatically develops detachment, from the whole world.
Lord Krsna has used the term 'hear' instead of 'enjoy' because there is attraction for pleasure after hearing about it. Thus 'hearing' is an important factor for the attraction of pleasures. Hearing as a means occupies an important place in the Disciplines of Knowledge and Devotion for spiritual progress also.
The terms 'yada' (when) and 'tad"a' (then) have been used to emphasize the fact, that there is no rule that it will take so many years or months or days, to develop this acute dispassion. As soon as, your intellect crosses the mire of delusion, you will become. dispassionate. It involves no much delay.
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