Bhagavad Gita Chapter 5 - Sanyasa Yoga - Sloka 21

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Bliss of Brahman Different from Sense Pleasure 20-29

1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 5 -Sanyasa Yoga - Sloka 21

2 Birds in a Tree -  Bhagavatham

Bahya sparsheshu asakta atma vindati atmani yat sukham I

Sa brahma yoga yuktatma sukham akshayam ashnute II sloka 21

बाह्य  स्पर्शेषु असक्त आत्मा विन्दति आत्मनि यत् सुखं ।

स ब्रह्म योग युक्तात्मा सुखं अक्षयं अश्नुते ।। श्लोक २१

With the self detached from external contacts he realises the bliss in the self. Devoted as he is to the meditation of Brahman, he enjoys imperishable bliss.

Those pleasures are perishable which are born of contact with the objects outside. They are styled sense-pleasures. The purified mind enjoys the bliss of atman; and this bliss suffers no mutation. it is therefore held as being imperishable. 

Those are the signs of  the awakened ones. Those blessed ones are like the chakravakha  bird which, even when parched with thirst to the point of death, does not alight on earth full of water, but seeks to slake it only with rain water only if and when available up in the sky. The god-intoxicated ones revel only in Him and in nothing else. 

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa