Sankhya Yoga

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51. For, men of wisdom cast off the fruit of action; possessed of knowledge

(and) released from the bond of birth, they go to the place where there is no

evil.

 

52. When thy mind shall cross beyond the mire of delusion, then wilt thou attain

to a disgust of what is yet to be heard and what has been heard.

 

53. When thy mind, perplexed by what thou hast heard, shall stand firm and

steady in the Self, then wilt thou attain Yoga.

 

ARJUNA SAID:

 

54. What, O Kesava! Is the description of one of steady knowledge, who is

constant in contemplation ? How does one of steady knowledge speak, how sit, how

move ?

 

THE LORD SAID:

 

55. The Lord said: When a man, satisfied in the Self alone by himself,

completely casts off all the desires of the mind, then is he said to be one of

steady knowledge.

 

56. He whose heart is not distressed in calamities, from whom all longing for

pleasures has departed, who is free from attachment, fear and wrath, he is

called a sage, a man of steady knowledge.

 

57. Whoso, without attachment anywhere, on meeting with anything good or bad,

neither exults nor hates, his knowledge becomes steady.

 

58. When he completely withdraws the senses from sense-objects, as the tortoise

(withdraws) its limbs from all sides, his knowledge is steady.

 

59. Objects withdraw from an abstinent man, but not the taste. On seeing the

Supreme, his taste, too, ceases.

 

60. The dangerous senses, O son of Kunti, forcibly carry away the mind of a wise

man, even while striving (to control them).

 

to be continued...