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Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya
Chapter-6 Dhyāna Yogaḥ
saṅkalpa prabhavān kāmāṃs-tyaktvā sarvān-aśeṣataḥ | CommentaryThere are two kinds of desires:— (1) those which arise from contact between the senses and their objects like heat, cold etc. and (2) those which are generated by the mind (sankalpa is the will or imagination) like those for offspring, property etc. Of these, the latter category, because of their nature, can easily be given up — one should mentally relinquish all these by contemplating on their lack of real connection with the Self. In respect of unavoidable desires resulting from contact with sense objects; relinquish the idea that pleasure and pain affect the Self; and withdraw all the senses from contact with their sense-objects — one should think of nothing else but the ātman. Little by little, through the power of discrimination, one should focus the mind on the ātman alone. |