Chapter
2. Contents of the Gita Summarized
TEXT 62
dhyayato visayan pumsah
sangas tesupajayate
sangat sanjayate kamah
kamat krodho 'bhijayate
SYNONYMS
dhyayatah--while
contemplating; visayan--sense objects; pumsah--of
the person; sangah--attachment; tesu--in
the sense objects;upajayate--develops; sangat--attachment; sanjayate--develops;kamah--desire; kamat--from
desire; krodhah--anger; abhijayate--becomes
manifest.
TRANSLATION
While
contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them,
and from such attachment lust develops, and from lust anger arises.
PURPORT
One who
is not Krsna conscious is subjected to material desires while contemplating the
objects of senses. The senses require real engagements, and if they are not
engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord, they will certainly
seek engagement in the service of materialism. In the material world everyone,
including Lord Siva and Lord Brahma--to say nothing of other demigods in the
heavenly planets--is subjected to the influence of sense objects, and the only
method to get out of this puzzle of material existence is to become Krsna
conscious. Lord Siva was deep in meditation, but when Parvati agitated him for
sense pleasure, he agreed to the proposal, and as a result Kartikeya was born.
When Haridasa Thakura was a young devotee of the Lord, he was similarly allured
by the incarnation of Maya-devi, but Haridasa easily passed the test because of
his unalloyed devotion to Lord Krsna. As illustrated in the above-mentioned
verse of Sri Yamunacarya, a sincere devotee of the Lord shuns all material
sense enjoyment due to his higher taste for spiritual enjoyment in the
association of the Lord. That is the secret of success. One who is not,
therefore, in Krsna consciousness, however powerful he may be in controlling
the senses by artificial repression, is sure ultimately to fail, for the
slightest thought of sense pleasure will agitate him to gratify his desires.
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