Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2- Samkhya Yoga - Sloka 14

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Feelings pertain to Body - Sloka 14 - 15

1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 2 - Samkhya Yoga - Sloka 14

 

Matra sparshah t

u kaunteya  shita ushna sukha dukha dah I

Agama apayinah anityah tan titikshasva bharata II sloka 14

मात्रा स्पर्शाः तु कौन्तेय शीत उष्ण सुख दुख दाः ।

आगम अपायिनः अनित्याः तान् तितिक्षस्व भारत ।। श्लोक १४ 

The contacts of the senses with their objects create, O son of Kunti, feelings of heat and cold, of pain and pleasure. They come and go and are impermanent. Bear them patiently, O Bharata.

The sense organs such as the eye and the ear contact their objects which are form, sound etc. The sensations caused this way are both favourable and un

favourable. The former feelings lead to  pleasure and latter to pain. These feelings come along with sense contacts and disappear when the senses do not function. A sense object that gives pleasure at one time gives pain to another time. Heat and cold maybe cited as examples. The food that is delicious and inviting while one is in health turns loathsome when in sickness. Pleasure and pain are therefore transitory. He who remains unaffected by them becomes firm in life. Practise of titiksha or forbearance is  a sure means to healthy-mindedness. the practiser thereof is not affected by pleasure and pain; he becomes competent for enlightenment. 

But then how does such a one become fit 

 

for enlightment ? The answer comes in the next sloka