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Chapter 2
Link:-Now, Lord Krsna answers the third question, "How does an equanimous person sit?"
yada samharate cayam kurmo'nganiva sarvasah
indriyanindriyarthebhyastasya prajna pratisthita
When, like a tortoise, withdrawing its limbs from all sides, he detaches completely his senses from sense-objects, his wisdom is stable. 58
Comment:-
Yada samharate cayam kurmo'nganiva sarvasah indriyapindriyarthebhyastasya prajna pratisthita:-Here, the purpose of the illustration of the tortoise is, that as a tortoise withdraws its six limbs—four legs, a tail and a head—into the shell to protect itself against possible dangers, so does an enlightened one also withdraw his five senses and one mind from sense-objects. If he has the least affinity with senses, he cannot be a man of stable wisdom.
Here the verb 'sarbharate', has been used, to emphasize the fact, that he does not even think of worldly pleasures.
In this verse the term 'yada' has been used but 'tada is not used. The reason is, that when the senses are withdrawn from their sense-objects, the self which is axiomatic, is realized, because that is beyond the limit of time. So the word 'tada' which denotes time, has not been applied. Self-realization or God-realization is axiomatic, and is beyond the reach of senses, but we we veiled by the curtain of pleasures and thus cannot realize Him. He still exists. But as soon as that veil is removed viz., we renounce our affinity to the worldly pleasures, and He is revealed.
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