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Chapter 3
Appendix:-Here the Lord has mentioned senses, mind and intellect but He has not mentioned `ego'. Ego is greater than intellect. In the fourth verse of the seventh chapter also the Lord has mentioned ego after intellect—'bhumirapo'nalo vayuh khan mono buddhireva ca, ahankara itiyam me Therefore
here also the term `sat' should be interpreted as 'desire' which abides in ego.
Unless and until the self is realized, desire abides in ego. After Self-realization desire does not persist in ego—'param drstva nivartate' (Gita 2/59). Bliss abides in the self but a man by according reality and importance to non-self wants to derive pleasure from it. As long as there is affinity for the non-self, desire persists but when affinity for the non-self (inert matter) is renounced, then `Prema' (real love) ensues.
The desire is in the self—'raso'pyasya' (Gita 2/59). Being in the self it is an obstacle to Self-realization. If it is not in the self but is in senses-mind-intellect, how is it an obstacle to Self-realization by us? It is because of its abode in the self that the self feels happy and sad and becomes a doer and an enjoyer. In fact the desire does not abide in the self but it is merely an assumption and therefore it can be wiped out. Therefore desire is seated in the self only through assumption.
A man assumes a thing, which abides in ego, to be abiding in the self. Ego is identified with the self and desire abides in that ego. Therefore so long as ego persists, attraction viz., 'desire', which belongs to the same class to which ego belongs, persists and when ego perishes, then attraction viz., 'true love' belonging to the class of the 'self ensues. In desire there is attraction for the world while in true love there is attraction for God.
All the three worlds and endless universes are 'sense-objects'. Sense-objects are in one region of senses, senses are in one region of the mind, the mind is in one region of the intellect, the intellect is in one region of the ego and the ego is in one region of the self. Therefore the self is very huge within which there are all the three worlds and endless universes. But a man (the self) by assuming his affinity for ego, a fragment of lower (insentient) nature, feels himself very small (unipresent).
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