THE HOLY GITA, CHAPTER 5, SANYASA YOGA OR THE RENUNCIATION, VERSE NUMBER 26

THE HOLY GITA

CHAPTER 5

SANYASA YOGA OR THE RENUNCIATION:

VERSE NUMBER 26

Text in Transliteration:

kaama krodha viyuktaanaam yateenaam yatachetasaam

abhito brahmanirvaanam varate viditaatmanaam

Text in English:

The Beatitude of Brahman is both here and hereafter fro those Sanyasins who have shed lust and anger, subdued their minds and realized the Self.

COMMENTARY BY SWAMI SIDBHAVANANDA:

Nyasa is sumlimation; Samyasa or Sanyasa is total sumblimation. This is positive meaning of the word Sanyasa. Negating the phenomenon is its negative meaning. In whichever way Sanyasa is practised, the attainment of the Beatitude of Brahman is the result. The Sanyasin is no more conscious of the body than the ordinary people are of their shadows. He is therefore liberated even while in the body. The here and hereafter become one endless Brahmaavastha to the Sanyasin.

Mind has to be vanquished fr the attainment of Beatitude. The process is delineated in the next stanza.

COMMENTARY BY DR.S.RADHAKRISHNAN:

They live in the consciousness of Spirit. The possibility of blessed existence in this world is indicated here.

COMMENTARY BY SWAMI SIVANANDA:

Those who renounce all actions and practise Sravana(hearing of the Scriptures), Manana (reflection), and Nididhyasana (meditation), who are established in Brahman or who are steadily devoted to knowledge of the Self attain liberation or Moksha instantaneously (Kaivalya Moksha), Karma yoga leads to Koksha step by step (Krama mukti). First comes purification of the mind, then knowledge, then renunciation of all actions and eventually Moksha.

Comments by the blogger:

Subduing mind is a feat in itself. Mind is likened to a monkey. It never stays put even for a even a second. Only he who is free of illusions of the world and comes to think of the whole Universe as a beautiful thought can subdue his mind as his mind and senses do not have kama or desire; and where there is nill personal desire then the mind becomes totally subdued.

Such a man is a sanyansin and it is his priority to have no lust or anger and always enjoys the Beatitude of Brahman.

Thus the Hinduism alone, as we have seen earlier, gives hope of total emancipation here itself which enures to hereafter also.