Ramanuja's Gita Bhashyam - Chapter 2 - sloka 71

The entire content of this mail is from Swami Adidevananda's translation of Ramanuja's Gita Bhashya, published by Ramakrishna Mission.

The Enlightened Defined - 54-72

1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 2 - Samkhya Yoga - Sloka 71

Close up of Banke Bihari, Brindavan

Vihaya kaman yah sarvan puman charati nih spruhah I

Nirmamah nirahankaraah sah shantim adigachati II sloka 71

विहाय कामान यः सर्वान पुमान चरति निः स्पृहः ।

निर्ममः निरहङ्कारः  सः शान्तिं अधिगछति   ।।

That man who, abandoning all desires, abides without longing and possession and sense of "I" and "mine", wins peace.

What are desired, they are called the objects of desire. These are sound and other sense objects. The person, who wants peace must abandon all sense objects such as sound, touch, etc. He should have no longing for them. He should be without the sense of  "mineness" regarding them, as that sense arises from the misconception that the body is the self. He who lives in this way attains peace after seeing the self