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Chapter 2
Appendix:-By accepting the existence and attaching value to pleasures, in the mind there ensues a subtle attraction, lovability and sweetness for pleasures, it is named `Rasa' (relish). As a greedy man rejoices at heart by receiving money and a voluptuary is rejoiced at heart by coming in contact with a woman, it is called `Rasa'. After enjoying pleasure a man declares, "Oh! how much I relished!" This is recollection of that `Rasa' (relish). This relish abides in the assumed ego (I'ness) (cijjadagranthi). The gross form of this relish is attachment to pleasures.
So long as a man has relish for sense enjoyments, he has to depend on Prakrti (Matter) and its evolutes (actions, objects and persons). When he is free from this relish, his dependence totally perishes, his dependence on sense enjoyments stops and he is no longer a slave to them.
So long as a person accepts the existence of pleasures, attaches importance to them and has relish for them, the spiritual (unworldly) relish for God is not revealed. Not to speak of unworldly relish, he can't have the determinate intellect to attain Him (Gita 2/44). After merely withdrawing outwardly the senses from sense objects, the relish (taste) persists. By attaining Self-realization this taste disappears, this relish disappears-`parah drstva nivartate'. It means that when a striver realizes that he is different from the world and realizes his identity with God, then the perishable taste disappears. With the disappearance (cessation) of the perishable taste, imperishable (non-stop) relish is aroused.
After Self-realization this relish for pleasures certainly disappears but even before Self-realization by being indifferent to it, by reflection, by good company and by the grace of saints, a striver can be free from this relish. The company of the enlightened exalted souls can also free a striver from this taste (relish).
The three disciplines—Karmayoga, Jnanayoga and Bhaktiyoga can free a striver from the perishable relish. When a striver starts relishing the taste of service in Karmayoga, the taste of Self-realization in Jnanayoga and the taste of devotion (love) in Bhaktiyoga, his relish for the perishable pleasures starts disappearing. As a child in childhood relishes toys but when he grows up, he starts relishing wealth, then his relish for toys naturally disappears. Similarly when a striver relishes the spiritual discipline, the relish for mundane pleasures naturally disappears.
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