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Bhagavad Gita II: Shloka 56
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To: alt-hindu@uunet.uu.net
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Subject: Bhagavad Gita II: Shloka 56
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From: lchiluku@ucsd.edu (R. & L. Chilukuri)
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Date: 26 Apr 1995 13:03:38 GMT
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From news@network.ucsd.edu Wed Apr 26 08: 52:49 1995
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Newsgroups: alt.hindu
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Organization: Univ of California at San Diego
Thanks for all the response to BG 54 and 55. Please do post
your responses to alt.hindu, in addition to e-mailing them
to me. Thanks again....
I have decided against typing in the translations of
M.R.Sampatkumaran and A.G. Krishna Warrier, since they are
not "original" Ramanuja or Sankara.
BG As It Is, Srila Prabhupada:
dukhesv anudvigna-manah
sukhesu vigata sprhah
vita raga bhaya krodhah
sthita-dhir munir ucyate
One who is not disturbed in mind even amidst the threefold
miseries or elated when there is happiness, and who is free
from attachment, fear and anger, is called a sage of steady
mind.
Swami Chinmayananda:
He whose mind is not shaken by adversity, and who in
prosperity does not hanker after pleasures, who is free from
attachment, fear and anger, is called a sage-of-steady-
wisdom.
Highlights from various commentaries:
Srila Prabhupada:
The word muni means one who can agitate his mind without
coming to factual conclusion. It is said that every muni has
a different angle of vision, and unless a muni differs from
others, he cannot be called a muni in the strict sense of
the word....
A sthita-dhir muni is always in Krishna conciousness, for he
has exhausted all his business of creative speculation.
Ramanujacharya:
Longing is the desire for things not yet attained: he is
devoid of this. Fear is the misery arising fromthe
perception of causes which will bring about separation from
what is beloved or meeting wiht what is undesireable: he is
free from this. Anger is an agitated state ...... directed
against another sentient being who has been instrumental in
bringing about separation from what is beloved or meeting
with what is undesireable...
Adi Sankara:
When pleasures come, he does not crave for them, his mind
being unlike the fire fed on fuel..
Swami Chinmayananda:
similar to Ramanuja and Sankara.
Comments/Questions:
Ramanuja's commentary gives a foretaste of shloka's 62 and
63.
Dukhesv anudvigna manah ...etc: It is possible to misapply
these phrases in daily life. One may become so desensitized
to pleasure and pain that he no longer cares about his
actions. For example, an evil man may continue to be evil,
because he has become deadened to ill-repute. He no longer
cares what others think of him!
The shloka has a superior meaning, but the inferior meaning
may surreptitiously take hold.
Hari Om
Krish
