Verse 65
Prasaade sarvaduhkhaanaam
Haanir asyopajaayate;
Prasannachetaso hyaashu
Buddhih paryavatishthate.
In that peace all pains
are destroyed,
for the intellect of the
tranquil-minded soon becomes steady.
Lord Krishna now explains that when the mind is placid and
pure, it has enacted for itself the cessation of all miseries arising from
conjunction with prakriti materialism.
Prasanna-chetah refers to that delightful one whose mind
is expunged of all impediments that hinders it from realizing the eternal soul
while bestowing the spiritual intelligence needed for illumination. Thus, when
the mind has been purified, all sorrow is terminated.
When one strives for pleasure, he undergoes lot of pain /
lot of struggle for getting that pleasure, when he gets it, there is a pain /
fear of losing it, when he actually loses it, then it is again lot of pain.
And, if he does not get at all in the first instance,
there is pain from the very beginning.
Non-attachment is the key by which we can dilute the
harmful effects of desire and hatred and we can escape from vicious cycle
towards destruction of mind.
Just this awareness, the discrimination, the
understanding in mind that I am unattached with outer world, I am in control of
the self or supreme self, I am with ‘him’, can lower the power of the
overpowered senses, it can eliminate desire and hatred and then even though we
interact with the senses, we attain peace.
In peace, all
sorrows are withdrawn from oneself. And mind becomes clear. He who is clear
minded, intelligence immediately becomes steady.
Verse 66
Naasti buddhir ayuktasya
Na chaayuktasya bhaavanaa;
Na chaabhaavayatah
shaantir
Ashaantasya kutah sukham.
There is no knowledge of
the Self to the unsteady,
and to the unsteady no
meditation is possible;
and to the un-meditative
there can be no peace;
and to the man who has no
peace,
how can there be happiness?
Lord
Krishna now reveals the controlling of the senses as a means of attaining
spiritual intelligence in a converse way. The Lord states that one with an
uncontrolled mind can never possess spiritual intelligence even if well versed
in the Vedic scriptures and is taught by a Realized master.
Why
is this true? Because with an uncontrolled mind it is not possible to have
spiritual intelligence, without spiritual intelligence one cannot meditate and
without meditation it is not possible to realize the Ultimate Truth.
So,
one who has an uncontrolled mind is bereft of this, for one who cannot
meditate, who is unable to enlighten themselves within there is no peace and
where there is no peace, how can there be happiness?
There
are various manifestations of a mind which is uncontrolled like Anger, Greed,
Envy, Worldly ambition etc. They are all different but when one transcends all
these, the peace experienced is the same
Shanti
or peace refers also to liberation. Shanti, moksha or liberation and nirvana
all have a similar meaning denoting termination of the samsara or worldly
existence.
Swami says,
"Once
a man is free from undue attachment to the body and its appurtenances (things
attached to "the body"), he is liberated also from the pulls of joy /
grief / bad / pleasures / pain etc. He is firmly established in equanimity,
fortitude and undisturbed balance" - (Message of the Lord).
Love.
