Learnings from Bhagavad Gita Part 7 of 24

Qualities of Sthitaprajna (Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 Verse 54-72):

Arjuna said: O Krishna! What are the characteristics of a man of steady wisdom? How does the man merged in the super-conscious state, sit and move? (2.54)

The Blessed Lord said: When a man renounces completely all the desires of the mind, and when he is fully satisfied with his mind fixed in Atma, then he is declared to be a man of steady wisdom. (2.55)

He whose mind is not troubled in sorrow, who does not hanker after pleasures and is free from attachment fear and hatred, is called the sage of steady wisdom. (2.56)

He who has no attachment to anything anywhere, who does not rejoice and hate when good and bad things happen, his wisdom is fixed and steady. (2.57)

When the yogi, like the tortoise drawing back its limbs into its own shell, withdraws all the senses from the sense objects, his wisdom is firmly fixed. (2.58)

When a man rejects the sense objects by withdrawing the senses, he becomes free from the sense world only. The longing or taste for them still remains in the mind. Even this longing is removed when the self is perceived. (2.59)

O Arjuna! The turbulent senses carry away the mind even of the learned man though he is striving to control them.(2.60)

Having restrained all the senses the harmonized should sit intent on me. His wisdom is steady whose senses are under control. (2.61)

As a man contemplates sense-objects, attachment for them arises, from attachment, desire for them will be born, from desire arises anger, from anger comes delusion, from delusion, comes loss of memory, from loss of memory, comes destruction of discrimination, and from destruction of discrimination he perishes.(2.62 & 2.63)

But the self-controlled man free from attraction and repulsion, with his senses under restraint though moving among objects, attains peace. (2.64)

When a man attains peace, all sorrow and suffering caused by the unbalanced mind and rebellious senses come to an end. By peace and purity, the mind is soon fixed in the Self. (2.65)
The man whose mind is not under his control has no Self-knowledge and no contemplation either. Without contemplation he can have no peace; and without peace, how can he have happiness? (2.66)

As a strong wind sweeps away a boat on the water, even one of the senses on which the mind focuses can carry away the discrimination. (2.67)

Therefore, O Arjuna! his knowledge is steady whose senses are completely restrained from all sense objects. (2.68)

That which is, night to all beings, in it the sage is awake; where all beings are awake, that is the night for the sage who sees (the Self). (2.69)

As the ocean is filled with water flowing into it from all sides and remains immovable, so the man into whom all desires flow, but is not a bit affected attains peace and not the man who craves the desires. (2.70)

That man who lives completely free from desires, without longing, devoid of the sense of “I” and “mine,” attains peace.(2.71)

Having obtained this Brahmi state man is not deluded. Being established in this even at the end of life man attains oneness with Brahman (Moksha). (2.72)

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