Verse-65
Chapter 2 — Sānkhya Yog
Verse 65
🕉 Original Sanskrit Shloka
prasāde sarvaduhkhānāṁ hānirasyopajāyate
prasannacetaso hyāśu buddhiḥ paryavatiṣṭhate
🕉 English Translation
📜 Translation
English
On the felicity of the inner-self all his miseries cease to exist and the intellect of the seeker of a pure or blissful spirit soon becomes established in the Lord.
The senses imbued with likes and dislikes indulging in the enjoyment of the sensual objects accumulate impurities (impressions) on the innermost self. The inner-self gets vitiated. Where there is a desire due to past impression, there is agitation! And agitation is a source of all miseries. Moving amongst the sensual objects free from likes and dislikes, imbued with godly spirit, makes the inner-self pure. The more the spirit becomes pure the more tranquility there will be. On coming of sorrow also the effect of it is not there. When the effect of grief is not there then a straight fact is–'saravdukhanaam haani' (absence of all sorrows).
One more hint is given. With attachment and repulsion there is suitability and unsuitability. The apprehension of sorrow in favourable situations and in unfavourable situations there is sorrow in any case. The state of purity or the felicity of the inner spirit is beyond the two. Neither favourable nor unfavourable, balanced and serene;–therefore 'saravdukhanaam haani' freedom from all miseries. Everyone desires a life free from miseries. Nobody wants to be in a miserable state. But still in everybody's life sorrows are there. Understand these verses of the Gita and reflect on them and inspire yourself and try to comprehend the actual facts of life. The senses and sensual objects are not the origin of miseries, nothing else but the wandering of senses amongst the sensual objects with attachment and repulsion is the cause of it. Find out the ways and means to make the inner-self pure. Life devoid of miseries is possible only in this state.