When such a person experiences sorrow of three types such as caused by phenomenal forces, from other beings and from one’s own body and mind in the form of unpleasant sensations, emotions and experiences, his mind does not get triggered with high amplitude oscillation.
In the same way, when he experiences joy too, there is no craving for more. Just as more firewood stoked into fire makes the fire burn brighter and bigger, he is free of attachment to joys and hence they do not have the power to flare up his mind into intense craving, Such a person is called as the one free of attachment. He is free of attachment, fear and anger. That person’s intellect is steady. Such a contemplative one is called a renunciate only then.
Avatarika: Introduction to the next verse: Furthermore…(..to be continued).
– Brahmacharini Sharanya Chaitanya.
Sankara Bhashya–Part 23
No shake when all shakes
Verse 2.55:
प्रजहाति यदा कामान् सर्वान् पार्थ मनोगतान्।
आत्मन्येवात्मना तुष्टः स्थितप्रज्ञस्तदोच्यते॥
prajahāti yadā kāmān sarvān pārtha mano-gatān|
ātmany evātmanā tuṣṭaḥ sthita-prajñas tadocyate||
A man of steady wisdom means the renunciate who has left his desires for maintaining a relationship with children, wealth and the world and blissful in the experience of the Self.
Verse 2.56:
वीतरागभयक्रोधः स्थितधीर्मुनिरुच्यते॥
vīta-rāga-bhaya-krodhaḥ sthita-dhīr munir ucyate||
In the same way, when he experiences joy too, there is no craving for more. Just as more firewood stoked into fire makes the fire burn brighter and bigger, he is free of attachment to joys and hence they do not have the power to flare up his mind into intense craving, Such a person is called as the one free of attachment. He is free of attachment, fear and anger. That person’s intellect is steady. Such a contemplative one is called a renunciate only then.
– Brahmacharini Sharanya Chaitanya.
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