Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 173

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

CHAPTER 2 Curiosity About Action That was why he had to go through yet another birth. And in this birth within a limited time God had freed him from all his passions, rendered him two resounding slaps as it were by providing him with all sights and sounds, and made him a true sadhu. Krishn means precisely the same when he proclaims that although a man’s association with objects of sense ends when he restrains them from reacting to these objects, he is rid of desire for these objects only when he knows his own Self as the identical God through meditation. So we have to act until we have achieved this perception. Goswami Tulsidas has also said that at first there are passions in the heart, which are swept away only by true devotion to God. Krishn speaks about how difficult it is to withdraw the senses from their objects: