Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Verses 59-63 from the second chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of "The song of God".

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🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2, Verse 59:

विषया विनिवर्तन्ते निराहारस्य देहिन: |

रसवर्जं रसोऽप्यस्य परं दृष्ट्वा निवर्तते || 59||

viṣhayā vinivartante nirāhārasya dehinaḥ

rasa-varjaṁ raso ’pyasya paraṁ dṛiṣhṭvā nivartate

🔴 Objects, but not the taste for them, fall off as regards the man who feeds not on them. When he intuits the supreme (Reality), even this taste wanes.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2, Verse 60:

यततो ह्यपि कौन्तेय पुरुषस्य विपश्चित: |

इन्द्रियाणि प्रमाथीनि हरन्ति प्रसभं मन: || 60||

yatato hyapi kaunteya puruṣhasya vipaśhchitaḥ

indriyāṇi pramāthīni haranti prasabhaṁ manaḥ

🔴 The impetuous senses, Arjuna! of even a learned man who strives, forcibly drive the mind astray.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2, Verse 61:

तानि सर्वाणि संयम्य युक्त आसीत मत्पर: |

वशे हि यस्येन्द्रियाणि तस्य प्रज्ञा प्रतिष्ठिता || 61||

tāni sarvāṇi sanyamya yukta āsīta mat-paraḥ

vaśhe hi yasyendriyāṇi tasya prajñā pratiṣhṭhitā

🔴 Controlling them all, one should sit integrated, deeming Me supreme. Stable is his wisdom who has brought his senses under control.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2, Verse 62:

ध्यायतो विषयान्पुंस: सङ्गस्तेषूपजायते |

सङ्गात्सञ्जायते काम: कामात्क्रोधोऽभिजायते || 62||

dhyāyato viṣhayān puṁsaḥ saṅgas teṣhūpajāyate

saṅgāt sañjāyate kāmaḥ kāmāt krodho ’bhijāyate

🔴 Attachment to objects is born when one ponders on them. Of attachment is born desire, and of desire, wrath.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2, Verse 63:

क्रोधाद्भवति सम्मोह: सम्मोहात्स्मृतिविभ्रम: |

स्मृतिभ्रंशाद् बुद्धिनाशो बुद्धिनाशात्प्रणश्यति || 63||

krodhād bhavati sammohaḥ sammohāt smṛiti-vibhramaḥ

smṛiti-bhranśhād buddhi-nāśho buddhi-nāśhāt praṇaśhyati

🔴 From wrath arises delusion; from delusion, failure of memory. Due to this latter, intelligence perishes, and from its loss total destruction ensues.

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