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Chapter 15
In fact, all spiritual practices, aim at a total renouncement of affinity, for the world. Spiritual practices (disciplines), may differ according to tastes, faiths, beliefs and qualifications of each devotee but their aim is the same. So a striver, instead of having an eye on, the difference of spiritual practices, should have an eye on the aim and be devoted to his spiritual practice. By doing so his subtle opposite feeling comes to an end.
In the Gita, the gross is called 'Mohakalilam' (mire of delusion) (2/52) while subtle is called 'Srutivipratipanna (bewildered by the Vedic text)[1] (2/53). So long as a striver, is attached to the world or attaches importance, to the world, this opposite experience exists. So it is necessary to root out this.
So long as, there is delusion, contrary experiences exist? He who perceives pair of opposites in the self is deluded. This contrary experience of attachment and aversion, pleasure and pain, happiness and sadness etc., abides in the mind rather than in the self. The mind is insentient, while the self is sentient and is an illuminator of the insentient. Therefore, the self has no affinity for the mind, this affinity is merely assumed.
Everybody knows, that he remains the same, in the pairs of opposites, such as pleasure and pain etc. But out of delusion, by identifying the self with these, he becomes happy and sad. If he remains established in the self, whichever remains, the same without assuming that the pairs of opposites (such as pleasure and pain) are in him, he will be liberated from the duality of pleasure and pain etc.
The Lord, has pointed out an easy way, to be liberated from the dualities of attachment and aversion etc., by declaring "Attachment and aversion of man abide in sense objects through the feeling of pleasantness and unpleasantness; let, none come under their sway" (Gita 3/34). It means, that a striver, should not act by coming under their sway, because they are strengthened by doing so.
Gacchantyamudhah padamavyayam tat:- He, who desires perishable objects, who makes efforts to acquire them, and feels happy or sad by acquiring them, or without acquiring them, is deluded. In fact, the world is kaleidoscopic while God is eternal, and it is because of His existence that the world, seems to exist. lie, who accepts the existence of the world, is deluded.
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