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One develops attachment to sense objects by thinking
about sense objects. Desire for sense objects comes from attachment to
sense objects, and anger comes from unfulfilled desires. (2.62)
Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion.
Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down (from
the right path) when reasoning is destroyed. (2.63)
A disciplined person, enjoying sense objects with senses that are under
control and free from likes and dislikes, attains tranquillity. (2.64)
All sorrows are destroyed upon attainment of tranquillity. The intellect
of such a tranquil person soon becomes completely steady. (2.65)
There is neither Self-knowledge nor Self-perception to those whose
senses are not under control. Without Self-perception there is no peace;
and without peace there can be no happiness. (2.66)
The mind, when controlled by the roving senses, steals away the Prajna
as a storm takes away a boat on the sea from its destination, the
spiritual shore. (2.67)
Therefore, O Arjuna, one's Prajna becomes steady whose senses are
completely withdrawn from the sense objects. (2.68)
A yogi is aware of the thing (or Atma) about which others are unaware. A
sage who sees is unaware of the experience (of sense objects) about
which others are aware. (2.69)
One attains peace in whose mind all desires enter without creating any
disturbance, as river waters enter the full ocean without creating a
disturbance. One who desires material objects is never peaceful. (2.70)
One who abandons all desires and becomes free from longing and the
feeling of 'I' and 'my' attains peace. (2.71)
O Arjuna, this is the Braahmee or superconscious state. Attaining this
(state), one is no longer deluded. Gaining this state, even at the end
of one's life, a person attains oneness with the Supreme. (2.72)
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