Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 182

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

CHAPTER 2 Curiosity About Action या निशा सर्वभूतानां तस्यां जागर्ति सयंमी। यस्यां जाग्रति भूतानि सा निशा पश्यतो मुने:॥69॥ [ “The true worshipper (yogi) remains awake amidst what is night for all creatures, but the perishable and transient worldly pleasures amidst which all living creatures stay awake are like night for the sage who has perceived reality.” ] The transcendental Spirit is like night for living beings because he can be neither seen nor comprehended by thought. So he is like night, but it is in this night that the spiritually conscious man remains awake because he has seen the formless and known the incomprehensible. The seeker finds access to God through control of senses, peace of mind, and meditation. That is why the perishable worldly pleasures for which living beings toil day after day is night for God’s true worshipper. The sage alone, who beholds the individual Self and the Universal Self and is indifferent to desire, succeeds in his enterprise of God-realization. So he dwells in the world and is yet untouched by it. Let us now see what Krishn has to say on the way in which this realized sage conducts himself.