Bhagavadgeeta – Sattva-Rajas-Tamas & Their Transcendence Ch.14 - Day 4

(From the discourse series titled: Bhagavad Gita – A comprehensive guide for living, given by Nutan Swamiji during the Jamshedpur Retreat in Oct-Nov 2013)

Nutan Swamiji begins the discourse revealing Arjuna’s desire-motivated mindset which is in stark contrast to a yoga-oriented mindset. He explains how to do through karma i.e. doing work to express joy and not to get joy. Such an attitude requires a free mind merged with seeking.

Swamiji reinforces the definition of Stitha Prajna – the Samadhi state of a knower. There is no Subject-Object division in such a state, and the individuality is dissolved in consciousness. Such a seeker has renounced all desires, even the desire for self-realisation. He has an impersonal association with both sukha and dukha. He does not cling to anything in this world at all. When he interacts, he does so with a yoga attitude in mind and intelligence, what the Gita calls the samatva-yoga.

Slokas chanted in the track:

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येनाहं नामृता स्यां किमहं तेन कुर्याम्।
yenāhaṃ nāmṛtā syāṃ kimahaṃ tena kuryām।
(Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 2.4.3)

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यो वा एतदक्षरं गार्ग्यविदित्वाऽस्माल्लोकात्प्रैति स कृपणः
yo vā etadakṣaraṃ gārgyaviditvā’smāllokātpraiti sa kṛpaṇaḥ
(Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 3.8.10)

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दूरेण ह्यवरं कर्म बुद्धियोगाद्धनञ्जय ।
बुद्धौ शरणमन्विच्छ कृपणाः फलहेतवः ॥
dūreṇa hyavaraṃ karma buddhiyogād-dhanañjaya ।
buddhau śaraṇam-anviccha kṛpaṇāḥ phalahetavaḥ ॥
(Bhagavad Gita 2.49)

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योगस्थः कुरु कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा धनञ्जय ।
सिद्ध्यसिद्ध्योः समो भूत्वा समत्वं योग उच्यते ॥
yogasthaḥ kuru karmāṇi saṅgaṃ tyaktvā dhanañjaya ।
siddhyasiddhyoḥ samo bhūtvā samatvaṃ yoga ucyate ॥
(Bhagavad Gita 2.48)

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न जायते म्रियते वा कदाचिन्
नायं भूत्वा भविता वा न भूयः ।
अजो नित्यः शाश्वतोऽयं पुराणो
न हन्यते हन्यमाने शरीरे ॥
na jāyate mriyate vā kadācin
nāyaṃ bhūtvā bhavitā vā na bhūyaḥ ।
ajo nityaḥ śāśvato’yaṃ purāṇo
na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre ॥
(Bhagavad Gita 2.20)

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नैनं छिन्दन्ति शस्त्राणि नैनं दहति पावकः ।
न चैनं क्लेदयन्त्यापो न शोषयति मारुतः ॥
nainaṃ chindanti śastrāṇi nainaṃ dahati pāvakaḥ ।
na cainaṃ kledayantyāpo na śoṣayati mārutaḥ ॥
(Bhagavad Gita 2.23)

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स्थितप्रज्ञस्य का भाषा समाधिस्थस्य केशव ।
स्थितधीः किं प्रभाषेत किमासीत व्रजेत किम् ॥
sthitaprajñasya kā bhāṣā samādhisthasya keśava ।
sthitadhīḥ kiṃ prabhāṣeta kimāsīta vrajeta kim ॥
(Bhagavad Gita 2.54)

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प्रजहाति यदा कामान्सर्वान्पार्थ मनोगतान् ।
आत्मन्येवात्मना तुष्टः स्थितप्रज्ञस्तदोच्यते ॥
prajahāti yadā kāmānsarvānpārtha manogatān ।
ātmanyev-ātmanā tuṣṭaḥ sthitaprajñas-tadocyate ॥
(Bhagavad Gita 2.55)

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दुःखेष्वनुद्विग्नमनाः सुखेषु विगतस्पृहः ।
वीतरागभयक्रोधः स्थितधीर्मुनिरुच्यते ॥
duḥkheṣv-anudvignamanāḥ sukheṣu vigataspṛhaḥ ।
vītarāga-bhaya-krodhaḥ sthitadhīr-munirucyate ॥
(Bhagavad Gita 2.56)