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BG II: Shlokas 56,57,58: Swami Chinmayananda
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Subject: BG II: Shlokas 56,57,58: Swami Chinmayananda
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From: lchiluku@ucsd.edu (R. & L. Chilukuri)
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Date: 13 May 1995 04:20:43 GMT
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From news@network.ucsd.edu Sat May 13 00: 09:32 1995
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Organization: Univ of California at San Diego
BG II: Shloka's 56, 57, 58
Interesting excerpts from Swami Chinmayananda's commentary:
Shloka 56:
a man of steady wisdom is not distressed by calamities such as (a) those
that may arise from disorders of the body (Adhyatmika), (b) those arising
from external objects, such as tigers etc.,(Adhibhautika); and (c) those
arising from unseen causes such as cosmic forces causing rains, storms
etc. (adhidaivika).
Shloka 57:
To live in attachment is to live in slavery to things of the world. A
mere detachment in itself is not the way of perfect life, inasmuch as it
is only a negative existence of constantly escaping from life. Detachment
from the world outside must equally be accompanied by a growing balance
in ourselves to face all the challenges in life - auspicious and
inauspicious.The perfect man-of wisdom sees things AS THEY ARE, uncolored
by his mental moods.
Shloka 58:
This capacity in an individual to withdraw his senses at will from the
fields-of-objects is called as Pratyahara.. To a devotee this comes
naturally, because he has eyes and ears only for the forms and stories of
his beloved lord. To the vedantin, this (uparati) comes from his well
developed and sharpened discriminative faculty, with which his intellect
makes his mind understand the futility of ... sensuousness.
