Chapter
2. Contents of the Gita Summarized
TEXT 71
vihaya kaman yah sarvan
pumams carati nihsprhah
nirmamo nirahankarah
sa santim adhigacchati
SYNONYMS
vihaya--after
giving up; kaman--all material desires for
sense gratification; yah--the person; sarvan--all; puman--a
person; carati--lives; nihsprhah--desireless; nirmamah--without
a sense of proprietorship; nirahankarah--without
false ego; sah--all; santim--perfect
peace; adhigacchati--attains.
TRANSLATION
A
person who has given up all desires for sense gratification, who lives free
from desires, who has given up all sense of proprietorship and is devoid of
false ego--he alone can attain real peace.
PURPORT
To
become desireless means not to desire anything for sense gratification. In
other words, desire for becoming Krsna conscious is actually desirelessness. To
understand one's actual position as the eternal servitor of Krsna, without
falsely claiming this material body to be oneself and without falsely claiming
proprietorship over anything in the world, is the perfect stage of Krsna
consciousness. One who is situated in this perfect stage knows that because
Krsna is the proprietor of everything, therefore everything must be used for
the satisfaction of Krsna. Arjuna did not want to fight for his own sense
satisfaction, but when he became fully Krsna conscious he fought because Krsna
wanted him to fight. For himself there was no desire to fight, but for Krsna
the same Arjuna fought to his best ability. Desire for the satisfaction of
Krsna is really desirelessness; it is not an artificial attempt to abolish
desires. The living entity cannot be desireless or senseless, but he does have
to change the quality of the desires. A materially desireless person certainly
knows that everything belongs to Krsna (isavasyam idam sarvam), and
therefore he does not falsely claim proprietorship over anything. This
transcendental knowledge is based on self-realization--namely, knowing
perfectly well that every living entity is the eternal part and parcel of Krsna
in spiritual identity, and therefore the eternal position of the living entity
is never on the level of Krsna or greater than Him. This understanding of Krsna
consciousness is the basic principle of real peace.
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