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BG II: Sh 59,60,61 - Ramanuja Bhasya
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Subject: BG II: Sh 59,60,61 - Ramanuja Bhasya
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From: lchiluku@ucsd.edu (R. & L. Chilukuri)
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Date: 13 May 1995 15:51:36 GMT
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From news@network.ucsd.edu Sat May 13 11: 40:28 1995
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Organization: Univ of California at San Diego
Ramanuja Bhasya, translated by M.R. Sampatkumaran
Gita II: Shlokas 59,60,61
59: Vishaya vinivartante niraharasya dehinah
rasavarjam rasopyasya param drishtva nivartate
The sense objects constitute the food of the senses. From an embodied
being who has no food, that is, from one who has withdrawn his senses from
sense-objects, (those) sense-objects, being turned away from him, go away,
save for the relish (for them). "Relish" (rasa) means longing. The meaning
is that longing for sense objects does not go away. But even this longing
goes away, on perceiving the essential nature of the Self, which is supreme
beyond the objects of the senses, being productive of greater happiness.
60: yatato hyapi kaunteya purushasya vipaschitah
indriyani pramathini haranti prasabham manah
Save through beholding the self, the longing for sense-objects does not go
away. When the longing for sense objects does not go away (and continues
to remain), the senses even of the wise man who strives (to control them),
prove rebellious, that is, (too) violent (to be controlled), and carry away
the mind after overcoming it by force. Thus, the conquest of the senses is
dependent on the conquest of the senses. Hence firm devotion to knowledge is
difficult to obtain.
61: tani sarvani samyamye yukta aseeta matparah
vashe he yasyendriyani tasya prajna pratishtita
With a view to avoiding all this (difficulty of reciprocal dependence
between the conquest of the senses and the vision of the self), he has to
subdue the senses, which are difficult to conquer on account of (their)
attachment to sense-objects. Then, having fixed the mind in Me, who am holy
and auspicious and the only object fit for meditation, he should remain calm
and collected. When the mind has Me for its subject, then such a mind
purified by the burning away of all impurities and free of all attachment to
the objects of the senses, brings the senses under its own control. Then the
mind, keeping the senses under its control, will be able to see the self.
What has been taught in (the passage), "In the manner in which fire united
with the wind burns with rising flames a forest of dry trees, the
All-pervading lord (Vishnu), enshrined in the hearts of the yogins, (burns
away) all sins", the same He (Sri Krsna) teaches here (by declaring): His
knowledge is well established whose senses are under subjection".
He (Sri Krsna) now says: "One who strives to conquer the senses, relying on
the weight of his own exertions and without fixing his mind on Me in this
manner, becomes lost."
