Verse-21
Chapter 6 — Atma Sanyam Yoga
Verse 21
🕉 Original Sanskrit Shloka
sukhamātyantikam yattadbu-ddhigrāhyamatīndriyam
vetti yatra na chaivāyam sthitaścalati tattvataḥh
🕉 English Translation
Hain akshay anand indriyon se pare,
Shudh buddhi hee isko anubhav kare.
Jamm jaye vritti jo iss sukh mein hee,
Vichilit na ho tatva se veh kabhi.
📜 Translation
English
The boundless bliss, which transcends the senses, which can be grasped only by the purified, subtle intellect, the state in which one experiences this, established in that state, the yogi never swerves from the nature of the Supreme.
The words like excessive happiness, the lone happiness, endless bliss, eternal happiness, etc. and several others have been used in the Gita in the context of happiness. The state is one but the difference lies in the words used. The experience of bliss derived from the Divine principle is described by these words. Such bliss cannot be imagined to be do ed from worldly relations, a and prosperity. For this reason, the preacher of the Gita is describing this bliss as transcending the senses. Beyond the reach of the senses! There is a limit to the happiness which can be derived from the senses-only till such time these sensual objects are favorable or even when they are favorable as long as the senses are capable of enjoying them. If there are no teeth then how can one enjoy good food? If the vision has weakened then how can the beauty of the scenery be enjoyed? If the feet are not capable of walking then how will there be the pleasure in travelling...?
In any case the Supreme is not an object of the senses. Superior to the senses is the mind, superior to the mind is intellect, and superiormost or ahead of even intellect... that Self...Supreme Self (Gita 3/42). Therefore, here the sentence 'to be grasped by intellect' has been used.
When intellect is single-pointed-the experience of the Self takes place. When this goal is uppermost in our mind, then intellect becomes subtle. The worldly decisions make intellect gross and impure. The more one is resolute towards the goal of attaining the Supreme the more will be purity, subtlety and then there will be more natural intimacy with that essential Truth Principle!
Let such a thing happen once in life! So much has taken place; effort has been made, but there has been no gain. Now firmly resolve. Let there be a longing to have this experience! Once this happens, intellect will experience the utmost and inexhaustible bliss; from where there is no possibility of intellect to get deflected and on abidance in that state, such divine experience is had, which is being evidenced by the following
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