1 Gita Sloka Every Day - Chapter 13 - Kshetra Kshetrajna Yoga - Sloka 8

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1 Gita Sloka  Every Day - Chapter 13 - Kshetra Kshetrajna Yoga - Sloka 8

The Soul's journey from one body to the other

Indriya artheshu vairagyam anahankarah eva cha I

Janma mrityu jara vyadhi dukha dosha anudarshanam II sloka 8

इन्द्रिय अर्थेषु वैराग्यं अन्अहङ्कारः  एव च I 

जन्म मृत्यु जर व्याधि दुख दोष अनुदर्शनं  II श्लोक 8 

Dispassion towards the objects of the senses, and also absence of egoism; perception of evil in birth, death, old age, sickness and pain; 

Nature bears evidence to the truth that beings evolve surely, though slowly, from the low order of existence to the high. Evolution of the body is complete at the human level. But there are stages of mental evolution to be striven after. Man has to perfect his mind in ethical and spiritual discipline. He should not therefore stagnate at the physical plane. His ideal in life is to emerge from the earthly existence into the divine. This is best effected by detachment from the mundane and attachment to the supra-mundane. Craving for the objects of the senses gives place to holy hankering for the divine. It is egoism when man identifies himself with the body. Instead he strives himself as atman. Bodily existence is necessarily associated with birth, death, old age, sickness and pain. This evil is transcended by him who rises above body consciousness. It is in this wise that spiritual life commences for the aspirant. 

Man grows in devotion to the Lord in direct proportion to his detachment from the objects of senses

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa