Ramanuja's Gita Bhashyam - Chapter 2 - sloka 59

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1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 2 - Samkhya Yoga - Sloka 59

Vishaya vinivartante niraharasya dehinah I

Rasavarjam rasopyasya param drishta nivartate II sloka 59

विषयाः   विनिवर्तन्ते  निराहारस्य देहिनः ।

रसवर्जं रसोप्यस्य परम् दृष्टा निवर्तते ।। श्लोक ५९

The sense objects excepting relish for the objects, turn away from  the abstinent dweller in the body. Even the relish turns away from him when what is supreme over the senses ie., the self is seen. 

The sense objects are the food for the senses. From the one who has withdrawn his senses from objects, these sense-objects, being rejected by him, turn away, but not the relish for them. Relish means hankering. The meaning is that hankering for the sense-objects does not go away by the abstinence alone. But even this hankering will go away, when one sees that the essential nature of the self is superior to the sense-objects and that the realisation of this self gives greater happiness than the enjoyment of sense-objects.