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Chapter 5
Link:—In the twenty fourth and twenty-fifth verses, the Lord explained, how a striver following the path of Sankhya (knowledge), can attain God. The Lord, In the next verse, explains the excellence of such God-realized souls.
kamakrodhaviyuktiin'ath yatinam yatacetasam
abhito brahmanirvanam vartate viditatmanam
To those wise, who are freed from desire and anger, who have subdued their minds and who have realized the self for them the
beatitude of God (Brahmic bliss) pervades on all sides. 26
Comment:
'lcamakrodhaviyuktanam yatmam'—The Lord declares, that in the God-realized souls, there remains no trace of evil propensities, such as desire and anger etc. Those evil propensities are born, when man has affinity for the unreal perishable objects (body, senses, mind and intellect etc.). But when he realizes his identity with God, he has no attraction at all for the entire world, including his body and mind etc. So, there is no question of the birth of evils, such as desire and anger, in him. If a striver has desire and anger even in subtle forms, he should not consider himself, a liberated soul.
Desire for perishable objects, is 'Kama'. A man, has a desire only when he lacks something. In Asat (unreal) always there is deficiency or lacking, while the real self is not wanting in anything. But, when he (the self) identifies himself with the unreal, he feels something lacking in him. This want, gives birth to desire. If desire is not satisfied, anger is born. Thus, there is no desire in the self, but when It identifies Itself with the unreal, It seems to have a desire. So how can those, who have no identity with the unreal and who have realized the self, experience privation?
Strivers, feel that they are not swayed so much by desire and anger now; because of their spiritual practice as they were influenced in the past, without spiritual practice. It shows, that these feelings have lessened through spiritual practice.
- It means, that they can be wiped out also, by spiritual practices. Strivers realize
- desire and anger are not so frequent as they were in the past,
- they are not so strong as they were, in the past,
- their duration is not so long as, it was in the past.
But, sometimes a striver feels otherwise i.e., he feels that they are more forceful now, than they were in the past.
- The reasons for that are
- through spiritual practice, attachment for pleasures is perishing, but perfection is not attained,
- because of the purity of heart and mind, a little desire or anger, seems too much to a striver,
- a striver, feels bad, if anything goes against his wish but he does not care about it. But this feeling accumulates. At last, the accumulated feelings blow up, even at the slightest provocation. Other people, are also surprised why he lost his temper, so easily.
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