BHAGAVAD-GITA 15:5

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 15:5

 

nirmana-mohajita-sanga-dosa

adhyatma-nitya vinivrtta-kamah

dvandvair vimuktah sukha-duhkha-samjnair

gacchanty amudhah padam avyayam tat

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

nih--without; mana--false prestige; mohah--and illusion; jita--having

conquered; sanga--of association; dosah--the faults; adhyatma--in

spiritual knowledge; nityah--in eternity; vinivrtta--disassociated;

kamah--from lust; dvandvaih--from the dualities; vimuktah--liberated;

sukha-duhkha--happiness and distress; samjnaih--named;

gacchanti--attain; amudhah--unbewildered; padam--situation;

avyayam--eternal; tat--that.

 

TRANSLATION

 

Those who are free from false prestige, illusion and false

association, who understand the eternal, who are done with material

lust, who are freed from the dualities of happiness and distress, and

who, unbewildered, know how to surrender unto the Supreme Person

attain to that eternal kingdom.

 

PURPORT

 

The surrendering process is described here very nicely. The first

qualification is that one should not be deluded by pride. Because the

conditioned soul is puffed up, thinking himself the lord of material

nature, it is very difficult for him to surrender unto the Supreme

Personality of Godhead. One should know by the cultivation of real

knowledge that he is not lord of material nature; the Supreme

Personality of Godhead is the Lord. When one is free from delusion

caused by pride, he can begin the process of surrender. For one who is

always expecting some honor in this material world, it is not possible

to surrender to the Supreme Person. Pride is due to illusion, for

although one comes here, stays for a brief time and then goes away, he

has the foolish notion that he is the lord of the world. He thus makes

all things complicated, and he is always in trouble. The whole world

moves under this impression. People are considering the land, this

earth, to belong to human society, and they have divided the land

under the false impression that they are the proprietors. One has to

get out of this false notion that human society is the proprietor of

this world. When one is freed from such a false notion, he becomes

free from all the false associations caused by familial, social and

national affections. These faulty associations bind one to this

material world. After this stage, one has to develop spiritual

knowledge. One has to cultivate knowledge of what is actually his own

and what is actually not his own. And when one has an understanding of

things as they are, he becomes free from all dual conceptions such as

happiness and distress, pleasure and pain. He becomes full in

knowledge; then it is possible for him to surrender to the Supreme

Personality of Godhead.

 

Copyright 1983 The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International. Used with

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