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Chapter 15
Vimudha nanupaiyanti:- As, we remain the same, while performing different actions, so does the self (soul), remain the same while giving up one body, acquiring another body and enjoying the objects of senses. But he, who having identified the self with the body, thinks he is a doer (3/27) is a deluded one, who does not behold reality.
The deluded are so much attached to pleasure and prosperity that they do not realize the fact, that mundane objects, such as body etc., are perishable. Moreover, they do not think, that sensual pleasures, are sources of sorrow. While describing the food of three kinds in the seventeenth chapter, which are dear to the good, the passionate and the ignorant, the Lord, first has given the effect of food liked by me good (Sattvika), the effect of the food liked by the passionate (Rajasika), has been given afterwards, while no remark has been given, of the food, which is dear to the ignorant (Tamasika) (Gita 17/8—10). Why? The reason is, that a good person thinks of the fruit, before performing an action, the passionate first performs the action and then reaps its fruit, while the ignorant person, does not think of the result at all. So the Lord here, means to say, that the deluded (delusion is a trait of the ignorant) while enjoying objects of senses, do not think, of the result, of sensual enjoyment. They remain, engrossed in pleasure and prosperity. Their knowledge remains veiled, by the mode of ignorance and therefore they cannot distinguish, the soul from the body.
Pasyanti jnanacakguuah:- All the beings, objects, incident and circumstances, are kaleidoscopic i.e., the seen, is changing, into the unseen. This is known as beholding with an eye of wisdom. The unchanging (permanent), can perceive the changing.
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