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Chapter 2
Link:-In the next verse, Lord Krsna explains, how to control the turbulent senses, which forcibly carry away the mind of even a wise man, in whom the taste for sense-objects still persists.
tani sarväni sarityamya yukta dsita matparah
vase hi yasyendriyani tasya prajna pratisthita
Having controlled all the senses, a striver should engage in meditation, devoting himself heart and soul to Me. His wisdom (mind) is stable, (constant) whose senses are under control. 61
Comment:-
Tani sarvani samyamya yukta asita matparah:-By controlling the senses, a striver should devote himself, heart and soul to Me. Moreover, he should not feel proud of his sense-control, because pride goes before a fall. He should, rather, feel that it was only God's grace, which enabled him to control his senses. Generally, in a striver following the Discipline of Action, there is predominance of action. Therefore, he develops egoism. Due to this egoistic feeling, he pays little attention to the divine grace, though the endowment of human body, inclination, practice and success of this discipline, are all the result of divine grace. By His special divine grace, the Lord is exhorting the striver to be devoted to Him. Thus, he should devote himself heart and soul to Him, thinking that he is God's and God is his, while he is
neither of the world nor is the world his. He should infuse a sense of 'I' in only God, not in the world, at all.
This section deals with the Discipline of Disinterested Action. So, Lord Krsna should have told Arjuna some method of that discipline. But Lord Krsna time and again has laid great emphasis on devotion to Him, and has glorified it very much. So He declares— "Among all Yogis, he who worships Me with faith, his innermost self merged in Me, is considered by Me, to be the best Yogi—most devout (Gita 6/47)."
Vase hi yasyendriyani tasya prajna pratislhita:-In the fifty-ninth verse, Lord Krsna said, that even with the cessation of sense-objects, a striver does not become a man of steadfast wisdom. But, here he says that the wisdom of the striver who has controlled his senses, is stable. Why? The clarification is that, in 2159 even at the cessation of the sense-objects the taste (relish) for sense enjoyments persists. But here in this verse, the senses of the striver are controlled and his taste has also disappeared. Thus the striver becomes stable in wisdom, (mind) at the cessation of taste.
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