Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 178

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

CHAPTER 2 Curiosity About Action Possessed of the means of spiritual realization, the sage who has experienced an intuitive perception of the identity of Self and the Supreme Spirit achieves the state of the most sublime peace, because he has subdued his senses, and therefore remained untouched by their objects even though he may be wandering in their midst. No prohibitions are needed for such a man. There is for him nothing unpropitious anywhere against which he should fight and defend himself. There is also for him no good for which he should yearn. प्रसादे सर्वदु:खानां हानिरस्योपजायते। प्रसन्नचेतसो ह्राशु बुद्धि: पर्यवतिष्ठते॥65॥ [ “After realizing the ultimate repose, all his (the seeker’s) sorrows disappear, and the blissful mind of such a man quickly grows in firmness.’’ ] Blessed with a vision of God’s ineffable glory and his divine grace, all the worshipper’s griefs-the temporal world and its objects which are the abode of all sorrows-vanish and his power of discrimination grows strong and steady. Hereafter, Krishn dwells upon the lot of those who have not achieved the saintly condition: