Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 - Samkhya Yoga - Sloka 72

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The Enlightened Defined - 54-72

1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 2 - Samkhya Yoga - Sloka 72

Esha brahmi  sthitih partha nainam prapya vumhyati I

Sthitva asyam antakale api brahma nirvanam rucchati II sloka 72

एषा ब्राह्मी स्थितिः पार्थ न एनां प्राप्य विमुह्यति ।

स्थित्वा अस्यां अन्तकाले अपि ब्रह्म निर्वाणं ऋच्छति  ।। श्लोक ७२ 

This, O Partha, is the Brahman state. Attaining this, none is bewildered. Being established in it even at the death hour, a man gets into oneness with Brahman.

 Objects seen in dream have their value as long as that dream lasts. Pleasure and pain experienced  in it have also their importance. But on coming to wakefulness, the dream dream world is rejected as delusion. Brahma nirvanam  is the highest state of existence, getting into  which the ordinary wakefulness itself is equated with dream and set aside as valueless. Mundane existence no more deludes the Brahma jnani.

Brahma nirvanam is also designated as  Aparoksha anubhuti. It transcends the mind and the intellect. An individual short of this illumination is called jivatman.  If he holds on to the body after intuiting it, he is classified as jivan mukta - freed  while in the body. As all rivers re-enter the ocean and become one with it, all jivas re-enter the ocean and become one with it, all jivas re-enter Brahman and get identified with the Absolute. This is the goal of life. If this state can be attained even at the last moment when the body is about to drop, the man enters Brahma nirvanam. He no more embodies.

The newly married daughter in law is given plenty of domestic work by the mother in law. But as she advances in pregnancy her work is reduced. After the birth of the child she is permitted to be busy all the while caressing the baby. Attainment of Brahman jnanam is analogous to this. Through the devout discharge of one's duty one's mind gets purified and comes to know of the presence of the Lord in one's heart. Then work is steadily abandoned and constant communion resorted to until atonement is reached

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

 

इति श्रीमद भगवद गीतासु उपनिशदसु ब्रह्मविद्यायां योगशात्स्त्रे श्रीकृष्ण अर्जुन संवादे सांख्या योगो नाम द्वितीय अध्यायाः 

In the Upanishads of the Bhagavad Gita, the knowledge of Brahman, the Supreme, the science of Yoga and the dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjuna, this is the 2nd discourse deisgnated as THE YOGA  OF KNOWLEDGE