Chapter
2. Contents of the Gita Summarized
TEXT 54
arjuna uvaca
sthita-prajnasya ka bhasa
samadhi-sthasya kesava
sthita-dhih kim prabhaseta
kim asita vrajeta kim
SYNONYMS
arjunah
uvaca--Arjuna
said; sthita-prajnasya--of one who is situated in
fixed Krsna consciousness; ka--what; bhasa--language;samadhi-sthasya--of
one situated in trance; kesava--O
Krsna; sthita-dhih--one fixed in Krsna
consciousness; kim--what; prabhaseta--speak;kim--how; asita--does
remain; vrajeta--walks; kim--how.
TRANSLATION
Arjuna
said: What are the symptoms of one whose consciousness is thus merged in
Transcendence? How does he speak, and what is his language? How does he sit,
and how does he walk?
PURPORT
As
there are symptoms for each and every man, in terms of his particular
situation, similarly one who is Krsna conscious has his particular
nature--talking, walking, thinking, feeling, etc. As a rich man has his
symptoms by which he is known as a rich man, as a diseased man has his
symptoms, by which he is known as diseased, or as a learned man has his
symptoms, so a man in transcendental consciousness of Krsna has specific
symptoms in various dealings. One can know his specific symptoms from the Bhagavad-gita. Most
important is how the man in Krsna consciousness speaks, for speech is the most
important quality of any man. It is said that a fool is undiscovered as long as
he does not speak, and certainly a well-dressed fool cannot be identified
unless he speaks, but as soon as he speaks, he reveals himself at once. The
immediate symptom of a Krsna conscious man is that he speaks only of Krsna and
of matters relating to Him. Other symptoms then automatically follow, as stated
below.
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