Bhagavad Gita Chapter 5 - Sanyasa Yoga - Sloka 23

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Bliss of Brahman Different from Sense Pleasure 20-29

1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 5 -Sanyasa Yoga - Sloka 23

Jadabharathar carrying the King

Shaknoti iha eva yah sodhum prak sharira vimokshanat I

Kam krodh udbhavam vegam sah yuktah sah sukhi narah II sloka 23

शक्नोति इह एव यः सोढुं प्राक् शरीर विमोक्षणात   ।

कां क्रोध् उद्भवं वेगं सः युक्तः सः सुखी नरः ।। श्लोक २३

He who is able to resist the impulse of desire and anger even here before he quits the body - he is a yogi, he is a hppy  man.

Desire or its counterpart anger is bound to make its appearance as long as life  lasts in the body. They are capable of raising their hoods even while man is at the point of death. It is in & through indulgence, indulgent observation covetous imagination that  desire thrives. Anger its negative expression, sprouts when sense objects prove themselves unpleasant. Desire fostered in the mind expresses itself in the physique by directing the senses covetously on their objects; there is then a longing for them visible in countenance. Anger has its physical expression as perspiration, throbbing of the body, quivering  of the lip and reddening of the eyes. A yogi is he who has quelled the impulses of desire and anger. This done, the bliss of the self becomes tangible to him.

Lust and greed have immersed people in sin. If you behold women as the embodiments of the Divine Mother, you will escape from the snares of lust and its aftermath, misery. God vision is impossible until desire is vanquished.

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa