THE BHAGAVAD GITA

Chapter 2.3

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The three qualities of nature are described in the Vedas. O Arjuna! Rise above these three qualities and settle in pure spiritual consciousness. Having freed yourself from duality, fixed in eternal truth and freed from the concern of material gain and security, be fixed in the SOUL.

All the purposes which are served by a small well are naturally fulfilled by large reservoirs. In exactly the same way, for one who has realised the supreme truth all the purposes of vedas are fulfilled.

You have the right to do your due KARMA but you have no right to the fruits of your KARMA. You will never consider yourself to be the cause of the fruits of your actions and will never be attached to inaction.

O Arjuna! Abandoning all attachment to SUCCESS and FAILURES, be steadfast in the observance of your deeds. Such equanimity is called SAMATVA YOGA.

O Arjuna! Take refuge in divination and insight; also give up attachment based actions, which are decidedly inferior to actions performed with wisdom based in divyajnana. They have a narrow mind, who want to enjoy the fruits of their actions.

Those who thoughtfully practice the science of non-attachment karma become free from both good and bad reactions in this life. So strive for yoga, which is the art of skill-fully doing actions in right consciousness.

Arjuna said: What is the nature of those who are conscious human(śṭh̤it-prajñà)beings? How does a lay person talk ? How does it sit? How does it go?

Purna Purushottam Parameshvara spoke: O Parth! When a human being abandons all kinds of selfish desires and sensual carvings that torment the mind and become satisfied with self-realisation, then that human being can be called a śṭh̤it-prajñà.

A person who is not distracted by sorrows. who doesn't crave for pleasures and who is free from attachment, fear and anger is called a stable-minded sage.

A person who remains unattached to all situations and who is not delighted by auspiciousness and is not disgusted by calamities is full of knowledge.

Just as a tortoise encloses all it's limbs in its shell, so a human being who withdraws his senses from objects become fixed in divine knowledge.

M̐umuķshúṣ may keep the senses away from their objects, but the interest in the objects of the senses remains intact.

O Kuntiputra Arjuna! The senses are so strong and restless that they overpower the mind of a man endowed with full knowledge and self-control.

Those who have subdued their senses and absorbed the mind in me, are situated in perfect knowledge.

Contemplation of sense objects creates attachment to them. Attachment leads to lust and lust leads to anger.

Anger impairs decision-making, leading to amnesia. When amnesia occurs intelligence is lost and the loss of intelligence leads to the destruction of a human being.

But one who regulates the mind and remains free from anger and hatred even while consuming the objects of the senses attains the grace of gods.

By divine grace peace is attained, there by ending all miseries. The intellect of such a calm minded person becomes firmly fixed in god.

But an undisciplined man, who has no control over his mind and senses, has neither a firm intellect nor a steady contemplation of god. A man whose mind is not connected with god has no peace anywhere. And those who lacks peace. how they can be happy?

Just as a mighty wind overturns a boat floating on water from its fixed course, so even a single sense on which the mind is concentrated takes away the intelligence of man.

So O Dhanurdhara Arjuna! A man who senses are restrained to their subjects, is firmly situated in supernatural knowledge.

What all living being regard as day is the night of ignorance for wise man and what all living beings see as night is day for introspective sages.

Just as the ocean is not disturbed by the incessant flow of the water of the saritas entering the ocean, so the man who remains un disturbed despite the incessant flow of lusts around him: he attains peace not the one who beguiles man for the fulfilment of desires.

A person who renounce all material desires and lives free from greed, possessiveness and ego attains complete peace.

Hey Parth! A Bhagavad-realised person is in such a state that after attaining it one does not get deluded again. Being situated in this same consciousness even at the time of death, man is freed from the cycle of birth and death and enters the supreme abode of god.

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So this is last part of the Chapter 2
(Àdhýay 2)
Of the Bhagavad Gita.

Hope you all learned something great from this great book of life lessons.

🙏🙏JAY SHREE KRISHNA🙏🙏