karma-jam buddhi-yukta hi
phalam tyaktva manisinah:। janma-bandha-vinirmuktah padam gacchanty anamayam॥ 2.51 ॥ |
By thus engaging in devotional service to the God, great sages or devotees free themselves from the results of work in the material world. In this way they become free from the cycle of birth and death and attain the state beyond all miseries.
yada te moha-kalilam
buddhir vyatitarisyati। tada gantasi nirvedam srotavyasya srutasya cha॥ 2.52 ॥ |
When your intelligence has passed out of the dense forest of delusion, you shall become indifferent to all that has been heard and all that is to be heard.
shruti-vipratipanna te
yada sthasyati nischala। samadhav achala buddhis tada yogam avapsyasi॥ 2.53 ॥ |
When your mind is no longer disturbed by the flowery language of the Vedas, and when it remains fixed in the trance of self-realization, then you will have attained the divine consciousness.
Arjuna Uvacha। |
sthita-prajnasya ka bhasa
samadhi-sthasya keshava। sthita-dhih kim prabhaseta kim asita vrajeta kim॥ 2.54 ॥ |
Arjuna said: O Lord, what are the symptoms of one whose consciousness is thus merged in transcendence? How does he speak, and what is his language? How does he sit, and how does he walk?
Sri Bhagavan Uvacha। |
prajahati yada kaman
sarvan Arjuna mano-gatan। atmany evatmana tustah sthita-prajnas tadocyate॥ 2.55 ॥ |
Sri Bhagavan said: O Arjuna, when a man gives up all varieties of desire for sense gratification, which arise from mental concoction, and when his mind, thus purified, finds satisfaction in the self alone, then he is said to be in pure transcendental consciousness.
duhkhesv anudvigna-manah
sukhesu vigata-sprhah:। vita-raga-bhaya-krodhah sthita-dhir munir ucyate॥ 2.56 ॥ |
One who is not disturbed in mind even amidst the threefold miseries or elated when there is happiness, and who is free from attachment, fear and anger, is called a sage of steady mind.