2.71 विहाय कामान्यः सर्वान्पुमांश्चरति निःस्पृहः। निर्ममो निरहंकारः स शांतिमधिगच्छति
vihāya kāmān
Word meanings
vihāya—giving up;kāmān—material desires;yaḥ—who;sarvān—all;pumān—a person;charati—lives;niḥspṛihaḥ—free from hankering;nirmamaḥ—without a sense of proprietorship;nirahankāraḥ—without egoism;saḥ—that person;śhāntim—perfect peace;adhigachchhati—attains
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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That person, who, by abandoning all desires, consumes [objects] without longing, without a sense of ownership, and without egotism, attains peace.
He attains Peace who, giving up desire, moves through the world without aspiration, possessing nothing which he can call his own, and free from pride.
The man who, abandoning all desires, abides without longing and possession and the sense of 'I' and 'mine', wins peace.
That man attains peace who, after rejecting all desires, moves about free from hankering, without the idea of ('me' and) 'mine', and devoid of pride.
The man attains peace, who, abandoning all desires, moves about without longing, without the sense of mine and without egoism.
अर्जुन उवाच
3.1 ज्यायसी चेत्कर्मणस्ते मता बुद्धिर्जनार्दन। तत्किं कर्मणि घोरे मां नियोजयसि केशव
arjuna uvāca
jyāyasī cet
Word meanings
jyāyasī—superior;chet—if;karmaṇaḥ—than fruitive action;te—by you;matā—is considered;buddhiḥ—intellect;janārdana—he who looks after the public, Krishna;tat—then;kim—why;karmaṇi—action;ghore—terrible;mām—me;niyojayasi—do you engage;keśhava—Krishna, the killer of the demon named Keshi
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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Arjuna said, "O Janardana, if you hold knowledge to be superior to action, then why do you engage me in such terrible action, O Kesava?"
"Arjuna questioned: My Lord! If Wisdom is above action, why dost Thou advise me to engage in this terrible fight?
Arjuna said If, O Krsna, you consider that Buddhi (knowledge) is superior to works, why do you engage me in this terrible deed?
Arjuna said O Janardana (krsna), if it be Your opinion that wisdom is superior to action, why they do you urge me to horrible action, O Kesava ?
If it be thought by Thee that knowledge is superior to action, O Krishna, why then, O Kesava, dost Thou ask me to engage in this terrible action?
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सांख्ययोग
Chapter 2: Sankhya Yoga
sāṃkhyayoga
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2.72 एषा ब्राह्मी स्थितिः पार्थ नैनां प्राप्य विमुह्यति। स्थित्वाऽस्यामन्तकालेऽपि ब्रह्मनिर्वाणमृच्छति
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Word meanings
eṣhā—such;brāhmī sthitiḥ—state of God-realization;pārtha—Arjun, the son of Pritha;na—never;enām—this;prāpya—having attained;vimuhyati—is deluded;sthitvā—being established;asyām—in this;anta-kāle—at the hour of death;api—even;brahma-nirvāṇam—liberation from Maya;ṛichchhati—attains
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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O son of Prtha! This is the Brahmanic state; having attained this, one never gets deluded again. Even by remaining in this [state] for a while, one attains at the time of death the Brahman, the Transcendent One.
O Arjuna! This is the state of the Self, the Supreme Spirit, to which if a man once attain, it shall never be taken from him. Even at the time of leaving the body, he will remain firmly enthroned there, and will become one with the Eternal."
This is the Brahmi-state, O Arjuna. None attaining to this is deluded. By abiding in this state even at the hour of death, one wins the self.
O Partha, this is the state of being established in Brahman. One does not become deluded after attaining this. One attains identification with Brahman by being established in this state even in the closing years of one's life.
This is the Brahmic seat (eternal state), O son of Pritha! Attaining to this, none is deluded. Being established therein, even at the end of life one attains to oneness with Brahman.
