BHAGAVAD-GITA 2:70

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 2:70

 

apuryamanam acala-pratistham

samudram apah pravisanti yadvat

tadvat kama yam pravisanti sarve

sa santim apnoti na kama-kami

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

apuryamanam--always being filled; acala-pratistham--steadily situated;

samudram--the ocean; apah--waters; pravisanti--enter; yadvat--as;

tadvat--so; kamah--desires; yam--unto whom; pravisanti--enter;

sarve--all; sah--that person; santim--peace; apnoti--achieves;

na--not; kama-kami--one who desires to fulfill desires.

 

TRANSLATION

 

A person who is not disturbed by the incessant flow of desires--that

enter like rivers into the ocean, which is ever being filled but is

always still--can alone achieve peace, and not the man who strives to

satisfy such desires.

 

PURPORT

 

Although the vast ocean is always filled with water, it is always,

especially during the rainy season, being filled with much more water.

But the ocean remains the same--steady; it is not agitated, nor does

it cross beyond the limit of its brink. That is also true of a person

fixed in Krsna consciousness. As long as one has the material body,

the demands of the body for sense gratification will continue. The

devotee, however, is not disturbed by such desires, because of his

fullness. A Krsna conscious man is not in need of anything, because

the Lord fulfills all his material necessities. Therefore he is like

the ocean--always full in himself. Desires may come to him like the

waters of the rivers that flow into the ocean, but he is steady in his

activities, and he is not even slightly disturbed by desires for sense

gratification. That is the proof of a Krsna conscious man--one who has

lost all inclinations for material sense gratification, although the

desires are present. Because he remains satisfied in the

transcendental loving service of the Lord, he can remain steady, like

the ocean, and therefore enjoy full peace. Others, however, who want

to fulfill desires even up to the limit of liberation, what to speak

of material success, never attain peace. The fruitive workers, the

salvationists, and also the yogis who are after mystic powers are all

unhappy because of unfulfilled desires. But the person in Krsna

consciousness is happy in the service of the Lord, and he has no

desires to be fulfilled. In fact, he does not even desire liberation

from the so-called material bondage. The devotees of Krsna have no

material desires, and therefore they are in perfect peace.

 

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