BHAGAVAD-GITA 2:55

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 2:55

 

sri-bhagavan uvaca

prajahati yada kaman

sarvan partha mano-gatan

atmany evatmana tustah.

sthita-prajnas tadocyate

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

sri-bhagavan uvaca--the Supreme Personality of Godhead said;

prajahati--gives up; yada--when; kaman--desires for sense

gratification; sarvan--of all varieties; partha--O son of Prtha;

manah-gatan--of mental concoction; atmani--in the pure state of the

soul; eva--certainly; atmana--by the purified mind; tustah--satisfied;

sthita-prajnah--transcendentally situated; tada--at that time;

ucyate--is said.

 

TRANSLATION

 

The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O Partha, 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.

 

PURPORT

 

The Bhagavatam affirms that any person who is fully in Krsna

consciousness, or devotional service of the Lord, has all the good

qualities of the great sages, whereas a person who is not so

transcendentally situated has no good qualifications, because he is

sure to be taking refuge in his own mental concoctions. Consequently,

it is rightly said herein that one has to give up all kinds of sense

desire manufactured by mental concoction. Artificially, such sense

desires cannot be stopped. But if one is engaged in Krsna

consciousness, then, automatically, sense desires subside without

extraneous efforts. Therefore, one has to engage himself in Krsna

consciousness without hesitation, for this devotional service will

instantly help one onto the platform of transcendental consciousness.

The highly developed soul always remains satisfied in himself by

realizing himself as the eternal servitor of the Supreme Lord. Such a

transcendentally situated person has no sense desires resulting from

petty materialism; rather, he remains always happy in his natural

position of eternally serving the Supreme Lord.

 

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