(1) Satisfaction in the Self.
55. The Blessed Lord said: When a man expels, O
Partha, all desires from the mind, and is satisfied in the self by the self,
then is he called stable in intelligence.
(2) Equanimity in pleasure and pain.
56. He whose mind is undisturbed in the midst of
sorrows and amid pleasures is free from desire, from whom liking and fear and
wrath have passed away, is the sage of settled understanding.
(3) Absence of attachment, delight and aversion.
57. Who in all things is without affection though
visited by this good or that evil and neither hates nor rejoices, his
intelligence sits firmly founded in wisdom.
(4) Complete withdrawal of senses from objects.
58. Who draws away the senses from the objects of
sense, as the tortoise draws in his limbs into the shell, his intelligence sits
firmly founded in wisdom.
(5) Devotion to the Lord.
61. Having brought all the senses under control, he
must sit firm in Yoga, wholly given up to Me; for whose senses are mastered, of
him the intelligence is firmly established (in its proper seat).
69. That (higher being) which is to all creatures a
night, is to the selfmastering sage his waking (his luminous day of true being,
knowledge and power); the life of the dualities which is to them their waking
(their day, their consciousness, their bright condition of activity) is a night
(a troubled sleep and darkness of the soul) to the sage who sees.
(7) Subjugation of desire and personal self.
71. Who abandons all desires and lives and acts free
from longing, who has no "I" or "mine" (who has
extinguished his individual ego in the One and lives in that unity), he attains
to the great peace.
References:
Sri Aurobindo. Bhagavad Gita. Pondicherry. All India Books. 1986.
Sastry, Alladi Mahadeva. Bhagavad
Gita with the Commetary of Sri Sankaracharya. Madras. Samata Books. 1897/1979.
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