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52.yadhaa the mohakalilam budDhih vyathitharishyathi

thadhaa ganthaasi nirvedham Srothavyasya Sruthasya cha.

 

When your intellect crosses over the mire of delusion then you will get detachment from

both what is heard and what is to be heard.

 

It is the ignorance of one's real nature that creates the identification with the body mind and intellect and he is deluded into believing the sense experiences as real and gets affected by the joy and sorrow through them. When the intellect is cleared of this delusion through knowledge one gets detachment from the sense experience which is indicated by srothvya and srutha. This means what is heard and what is to be heard which includes the seen and unseen and likewise all sense experiences, that were already experienced and that to be experienced.

 

 

53. Sruthiviprathipanna the yadhaa sThaasyathi nischalaa

samaaDhou achalaaa budDhIh thadhaa yogam avaapsyasi

 

You will attain yoga when your intellect which has been perplexed by what you have heard so far, now becomes clear and firm by right knowledge and concentrates on the absolute.

 

 

When the mind gets free from delusion which is the cause of joy and sorrow by wrong identification of oneself with the body there is no more confusion of conflicting thoughts and the intellect comes to rest, steady, and with no distractions, in the absolute reality and one attains Samaadhi realization. Krishna has thus skillfully maneuvered the conversation to a point in order to make Arjuna ask the question Sthithaprajnasya kaa bhaasha. Then He starts the description of the man of realization.