5.21 बाह्यस्पर्शेष्वसक्तात्मा विन्दत्यात्मनि यत्सुखम्। स ब्रह्मयोगयुक्तात्मा सुखमक्षयमश्नुते
bāhya
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bāhya-sparśheṣhu—external sense pleasure;asakta-ātmā—those who are unattached;vindati—find;ātmani—in the self;yat—which;sukham—bliss;saḥ—that person;brahma-yoga yukta-ātmā—those who are united with God through yog;sukham—happiness;akṣhayam—unlimited;aśhnute—experiences
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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He who, with his mind not attached to external contacts, finds happiness in the Self—that person, with his mind engaged in Yoga, easily pervades the Brahman, suffering no loss.
He finds happiness in his own Self, and enjoys eternal bliss, whose heart does not yearn for the contacts of earth and whose Self is one with the Everlasting.
He whose mind is detached from external contact, and finds happiness in the self - he has his mind engaged in the contemplation of Brahman and he enjoys undecaying bliss.
With his heart unattached to external objects, he gets the bliss that is in the Self. With his heart absorbed in meditation on Brahman, he acquires undecaying Bliss.
With the self unattached to the external contacts he discovers happiness in the Self; with the self engaged in the meditation of Brahman he attains to the endless happiness.
5.23 शक्नोतीहैव यः सोढुं प्राक्शरीरविमोक्षणात्। कामक्रोधोद्भवं वेगं स युक्तः स सुखी नरः
śaknot
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śhaknoti—is able;iha eva—in the present body;yaḥ—who;soḍhum—to withstand;prāk—before;śharīra—the body;vimokṣhaṇāt—giving up;kāma—desire;krodha—anger;udbhavam—generated from;vegam—forces;saḥ—that person;yuktaḥ—yogi;saḥ—that person;sukhī—happy;naraḥ—person
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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Whosoever, right here, before abandoning the body, is capable of bearing the force sprung from desire and wrath—he is considered to be a man of Yoga and a happy man.
He who, before he leaves his body, learns to surmount the promptings of desire and anger is a saint and is happy.
He who is able, even here, before he is released from the body, to bear the impulse generated by desire and wrath, he is a Yogin (competent for self-realisation); he is the happy man.
One who can withstand here itself-before departing from the body-the impulse arising from desire and anger, that man is a yogi; he is happy.
He who is able, while still here in this world to withstand, before the liberation from the body, the impulse born of desire and anger–he is a Yogi, he is a happy man.
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कर्मसंन्यासयोग
Chapter 5: Renounce Through Works
karmasaṃnyāsayoga
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5.22 ये हि संस्पर्शजा भोगा दुःखयोनय एव ते। आद्यन्तवन्तः कौन्तेय न तेषु रमते बुधः
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Word meanings
ye—which;hi—verily;sansparśha-jāḥ—born of contact with the sense objects;bhogāḥ—pleasures;duḥkha—misery;yonayaḥ—source of;eva—verily;te—they are;ādya-antavantaḥ—having beginning and end;kaunteya—Arjun, the son of Kunti;na—never;teṣhu—in those;ramate—takes delight;budhaḥ—the wise
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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The enjoyments that arise from contact [with objects] are nothing but sources of misery, having both a beginning and an end. Therefore, an intelligent person does not take delight in them, O son of Kunti!
The joys that spring from external associations bring pain; they have their beginning and their endings. The wise man does not rejoice in them.
For those pleasures that are born of contact are wombs or pain. They have a beginning and an end, O Arjuna. The wise do not rejoice in them.
Since enjoyments that result from contact (with objects) are verily the sources of sorrow and have a beginning and an end, (therefore) O son of Kunti, the wise one does not delight in them.
The enjoyments that are born of contacts are generators of pain only, for they have a beginning and an end, O Arjuna! The wise do not rejoice in them.
