BHAGAVAD GITA STUDY 35

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C .II V.71

 

" He attains peace who abandons all desires, acting without attachment, free from

'I' or 'mine'.

 

Comment: Bhagavan has taken us back to Chapter 2 again to emphasise the

necessary need to abandon (evil) desires. In Padamalai P.240 51. we read 'Evil

desire, a pit that can never be filled, is what plunges your life into a poverty

that can never be overcome.'In 54 we read that 'the six enemies are desire,

anger, greed, delusion, intoxication, and envy'. In the same verse he says'

freedom from passions is the essential prerequisite. When that is accomplished,

all else is accomplished.'

 

Padamalai is a wonderful book and contains the advanced teaching for mature

sadhaks which Bhagavan gave to Murunagar, who eventually Self Realised. It is

available from the Ashram Book Depot on application.

 

The second part of V.35 advises acting without attachment. That is being free

from the ignoble sense of possession which claims ownership on what it has

received as a gift, as mine, when it really comes from Divine Providence. The

sense of personal Doership, 'I do this' and 'I did that' is also undermined in

this verse.

 

Comments and questions are invited.