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Gita II: Sh 62,63,64 Sankara Bhasya
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Subject: Gita II: Sh 62,63,64 Sankara Bhasya
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From: lchiluku@ucsd.edu (R. & L. Chilukuri)
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Date: 19 May 1995 13:10:57 GMT
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From news@network.ucsd.edu Fri May 19 08: 59:55 1995
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Bhagavad Gita Chapter II, Shlokas 62,63,64
dhyayato vishayan pumsah sangasteshuupajayate
sangatsanjayate kamah kamatkrodhobhijayate
krodhatbhavati smamohah sammohatsmritivibhramah
smritibhramshatbuddhinashah buddhinashatpranashyati
ragadveshaviyuktaistu vishayanidriyaishcharan
atmavashyaivudheyatma prasadamadhigacchati
Sankara Bhasya
Shloka 62
In the case of the man who "ponder on" i.e. who thinks of or
contemplates, particular objects like sounds, "attachment to them",
pleasures in them, arises. Of that pleasure is born desire or craving.
>From this craving, when obstructed somehow, wrath arises.
Shloka 63
>From wrath arises delusion or lack of discrimination between what
ought and what ought not to be done. Indeed an angry man, being
deluded, rails even at his teacher. Due to delusion confusion of
memory results, i.e. the fading of those impressions constituting
memory which the sastras and the instructions of teachers have
engendered. In other words even when the causes of its appearence
are present, that memory fails to arise. due to this failure, Buddhi,
the competence of the mind to discriminate between right and
wrong, perishes. Through loss of this discrimination, one is wholly
destroyed; for a man retains self-identity only as long as he retains
hos power to discriminate between right and wrong. Where this
power fails, the man in question perishes, indeed. The sense is that
with the destruction of the organ of discrimination man perishes; he
becomes unfit to realise the ends of life.
The contemplation of objects (of desire) has been pointed out as the
root of all evil. Now is pointed out the cause of liberation.
Shloka 64
Indeed, the normal activities of the senses are impelled by
'attachment and aversion'. One who seeks liberation, however,
approaches unavoidable objects by means of his senses, ear, eye
etc., which are free from attachment and aversion. Besides, these
senses are under the sway of the disciplined mind. He whose self,
the inner sense or mind, has been disciplined, attains serenity, which
is placidity or Self-abidance.
