Chapter
2. Contents of the Gita Summarized
TEXT 59
visaya vinivartante
niraharasya dehinah
rasa-varjam raso 'py asya
param drstva nivartate
SYNONYMS
visayah--objects
for sense enjoyment; vinivartante--are practiced to be refrained
from; niraharasya--by negative restrictions; dehinah--for
the embodied; rasa-varjam--giving up the taste; rasah--sense
of enjoyment;api--although there is; asya--his; param--far
superior things; drstva--by experiencing; nivartate--ceases
from.
TRANSLATION
The
embodied soul may be restricted from sense enjoyment, though the taste for
sense objects remains. But, ceasing such engagements by experiencing a higher
taste, he is fixed in consciousness.
PURPORT
Unless one
is transcendentally situated, it is not possible to cease from sense enjoyment.
The process of restriction from sense enjoyment by rules and regulations is
something like restricting a diseased person from certain types of eatables.
The patient, however, neither likes such restrictions nor loses his taste for
eatables. Similarly, sense restriction by some spiritual process like astanga-yoga, in the
matter of yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, pratyahara,
dharana, dhyana, etc., is recommended for less intelligent persons who have no
better knowledge. But one who has tasted the beauty of the Supreme Lord Krsna,
in the course of his advancement in Krsna consciousness, no longer has a taste
for dead material things. Therefore, restrictions are there for the less
intelligent neophytes in the spiritual advancement of life, but such
restrictions are only good if one actually has a taste for Krsna consciousness.
When one is actually Krsna conscious, he automatically loses his taste for pale
things.
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