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Chapter 2
Link:-Lard Krsna explains in the next verse, that were withdrawal of the senses from sense-objects, is not the mark of a man of steadfast wisdom.
visaya vinivartante niraharasya dehinah
rasavarjam raso'pyasya param drstva nivartate
Sense-objects cease to exist for him, who does not enjoy them with his senses, but the taste for them may persist. This relish, also disappears from a man of stable mind, when he, realises the Supreme. 59
Comment:-
Visaya vinivartante niraharasya dehinah rasavarjam:- A man becomes an abstainer in two ways (i) Fasting by one's own will or owing to sickness. (ii) Abstaining from sense enjoyments. Here, the term has been used, to refer to a striver, who withdraws his senses from sense-objects.
The senses of a sick man become unfit for indulgence, but craving in them, for sense enjoyment persists. He hopes to enjoy these after recovery. Similarly, sense-objects cease for the abstinent striver, but the taste persists. It means that his body and senses come under restraint, but his mind wanders.
The dispassionate strivers who have instinctively no attachment for pleasure, become free from this taste. The striver who wants to follow the spiritual path but is not dispassionate, can restrain his body and senses by thinking of the adverse consequences of sense enjoyments, though his taste persists.
Raso'pyasya param drstva nivartate:-The relish of the man of steadfast wisdom, who realises the Supreme, disappears. It is a rule. But the contrary that with the disappearance (cessation) of relish, a striver attains steadfast wisdom, is not true.
'Raso'pyasya' means that a striver has feeling in his egoism viz., 'I ness'. This taste changes itself into attachment. Therefore, a striver should have determination that he as a striver has no attachment, no desire. This sort of determination (aim) frees him from relish, and after realizing God this relish disappears altogether.
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