The entire content of this mail is from Swami Chidbhavananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission.
1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 2 - Samkhya Yoga - Sloka 55
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| Krishna in Devaki's womb |
Prajahati yada kaman sarvan partha manogatan I
Atmanyevatman tushtah sthitapragyah tada uchyate II sloka 55
श्री भगवान उवाच
प्रजहाति यदा कामान् सर्वान पार्थ मनोगतान ।
आत्मन्येवात्मना तुष्टः स्थितप्रज्ञः तदा उच्यते ।। श्लोक ५५
The Blessed Lord said
When a man abandons, O Partha, all the desires of the heart and is satisfied in the self by the self, then he is said to be stable in wisdom
This is the answer to the 1st part of Arjuna's question.
Fire is hot; it need not go anywhere in search of warmth. Even so atman is Bliss. It imposes bliss within on objects outside and goes in search of those objects believing that with their acquisition happiness is gained. This search outside for happiness is kama. the grabbing modification of the mind is kama. The waves and ripples on the surface of water obscure the sight of the sand bed below. The ripples of the kama in the mind obstruct the vision of Atman, the bliss. All the same, the changeless bliss within reveals itself as the happiness coming from the sense objects outside. When the mind is pacified by relinquishing all the kamas, the blissful Atman is realised in its original glory. He is a Brahma jnani who intuits that the happiness he sought in the world outisde, is in its entirety is himself. He remains self-satisfied. The aspirant who seeks to wipe out all desires and to pacify the mind is the one who practices yoga.
He who is dead as it were when alive, that is to say, as desireless as a corpse, becomes competent for Brahma jnanam.
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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