| 68. Therefore,
O mightyarmed, his knowledge is steady whose senses have been entirely restrained
from senseobjects.It has been shown that evil arises from the senses pursuing
senseobjects. Wherefore, that devotees knowledge is steady whose senses
have been restrained from senseobjects (such as sound) in all forms, subjective
and objective.(6) The Universe, a mere dream to the Sage.In the case of
the man who possesses discriminative knowledge and whose knowledge has become
steady, his experience of all matters, temporal and spiritual (laukika and
vaidika, sensuous and supersensuous), ceases on the cessation of nescience
(avidya) ; for, it is the effect of nescience: and nescience ceases because
it is opposed to knowledge. To make this clear, the Lord proceeds: |
