| 55. The Lord
said:When a man, satisfied in the Self alone by himself, completely casts
off all the desires of the mind, then is he said to be one of steady knowledge.When
a man completely abandons all the various desires that enter the heart and
is satisfied with the True Innermost Self (Pratyagatman) in himself, without
longing for external possessions, averse to everything else because of his
acquisition of the immortal nectar,i.e,, his realization of the Supreme
Truth,then he is said to be a wise man (vidvan), one whose knowledge arising
from the discrimination of the Self and the notSelf has been steadied. If,
on his abandoning of all desires, nothing should be found to cause satisfaction
while the cause of the embodied state still operates, it would follow that
his behaviour would be like that of a mad man or a maniac. Hence the words
satisfied in the Self etc. That is to say, he who has abandoned all desires
connected with progeny, possessions and the world, who has renounced (all
worlds), who delights in the Self and plays with the Self; he is the man
whose Knowledge is steady.(2) Equanimity in pleasure and pain. |
