Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 171

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

CHAPTER 2 Curiosity About Action विषया विनिवर्तन्ते निराहारस्य देहिन:। रसवर्जं रसोऽप्यस्य परं दृष्ट्वा निवर्तते॥59॥ [ “While objects of sensual pleasure cease to be for the man who withdraws his senses from them, his desire for these objects yet remains; but the desires of the man of discrimination are completely erased by his perception of God.’’ ] The objects of sense come to an end for the man who has rejected them because his senses no longer perceive them, but his desires yet survive. The feeling of attachment lives on. But the passions of the yogi, the doer of selfless action, are annihilated by his perception of the ultimate essence that is God. The accomplished, or enlightened, sage does not, like the turtle, re-extend his senses to objects which are pleasing to them. When once his senses have shrivelled, all the influences and impressions (sanskar) he has carried with him from a previous existence are irrevocably dead. His senses do not then return to life. By apprehending God through the observance of the Way of Selfless Action, even the attachments to objects of sensual pleasure become extinct.