Category: Bhagavad Gita

We can be “nirahankār” i.e. free of sense if I-ness, free of egoism. Why can be free of sense of I-ness? Because we are free of sense of I-ness, free of egoism. In Gita, God also tells us to be desireless (nishkām), free of mine-ness (nirmamoha) and free of I-ness (nirahankār). “Vihaaya kaamaanyah sarvaan pumaamscarati […]

यं लब्ध्वा चापरं लाभं मन्यते नाधिकं ततः । यस्मिन्स्थितो न दुःखेन गुरुणापि विचाल्यते ॥२२॥ yaṁ labdhvā cāparaṁ lābhaṁ manyate nādhikaṁ tataḥ yasmin sthito na duḥkhena guruṇāpi vicālyate And having attained that state, he does not reckon any other gain greater than that, established therein he is not shaken even by the heaviest affliction.   22 Comment […]

एषा ब्राह्मी स्थितिः पार्थ नैनां प्राप्य विमुह्यति । स्थित्वास्यामन्तकालेऽपि ब्रह्मनिर्वाणमृच्छति ॥७२॥ eṣā brāhmī sthitiḥ pārtha, naināṁ prāpya vimuhyati sthitvāsyām anta-kāle ’pi, brahma-nirvāṇam ṛcchati O Partha (Arjuna), such is the state of a God realized soul.  Attaining to this state no one gets deluded. Being established in this state even at the hour of death, one […]

या निशा सर्वभूतानां तस्यां जागर्ति संयमी । यस्यां जाग्रति भूतानि सा निशा पश्यतो मुनेः ॥६९॥ yā niśā sarva-bhūtānāṁ, tasyāṁ jāgarti saṁyamī yasyāṁ jāgrati bhūtāni, sā niśā paśyato muneḥ That, which is night to all beings (who are turned away from God), in that state, the disciplined Yogī keeps awake. And that in which all beings […]

रागद्वेषवियुक्तैस्तु विषयानिन्द्रियैश्चरन् । आत्मवश्यैर्विधेयात्मा प्रसादमधिगच्छति ॥६४॥ प्रसादे सर्वदुःखानां हानिरस्योपजायते । प्रसन्नचेतसो ह्याशु बुद्धिः पर्यवतिष्ठते ॥६५॥ rāga-dveṣa-vimuktais tu, viṣayān indriyaiś caran ātma-vaśyair vidheyātmā, prasādam adhigacchati prasāde sarva-duḥkhānāṁ, hānir asyopajāyate prasanna-cetaso hy āśu, buddhiḥ paryavatiṣṭhate But a self-controlled yogi (Karmayoga aspirant), freed from attraction and aversion (Rāga-Dveṣau), with his senses under control though moving about amongst the […]

तानि सर्वाणि संयम्य युक्त आसीत मत्परः । वशे हि यस्येन्द्रियाणि तस्य प्रज्ञा प्रतिष्ठिता ॥६१॥ tāni sarvāṇi saṁyamya, yukta āsīta mat-paraḥ vaśe hi yasyendriyāṇi, tasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā The aspirant of Karmayoga, having controlled all the senses, should sit for meditation, devoting heart and soul to Me. Because, whose senses are under control, his wisdom is steady.   […]