Chapter 2, Verse 54. Arjuna said: What are the symptoms of one whose consciousness is thus merged in Transcendence? How does he speak, and what is his language? How does he sit, and how does he walk? Chapter 2, Verse 55. The Blessed Lord said: O Partha, when a man gives up all varieties of sense desire which arise from mental concoction, and when his mind finds satisfaction in the self alone, then he is said to be in pure transcendental consciousness. Chapter 2, Verse 56. One who is not disturbed in spite of the threefold miseries, who is not elated when there is happiness, and who is free from attachment, fear and anger, is called a sage of steady mind. Chapter 2, Verse 57. He who is without attachment, who does not rejoice when he obtains good, nor lament when he obtains evil, is firmly fixed in perfect knowledge. Chapter 2, Verse 58. One who is able to withdraw his senses from sense objects, as the tortoise draws its limbs within the shell, is to be understood as truly situated in knowledge. Chapter 2, Verse 59. 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. Chapter 2, Verse 60. The senses are so strong and impetuous, O Arjuna, that they forcibly carry away the mind even of a man of discrimination who is endeavoring to control them. Chapter 2, Verse 61. One who restrains his senses and fixes his consciousness upon Me, is known as a man of steady intelligence. Chapter 2, Verse 62. While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust develops, and from lust anger arises. Chapter 2, Verse 63. From anger, delusion arises, and from delusion bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered, intelligence is lost, and when intelligence is lost, one falls down again into the material pool. Chapter 2, Verse 64. One who can control his senses by practicing the regulated principles of freedom can obtain the complete mercy of the Lord and thus become free from all attachment and aversion. Chapter 2, Verse 65. For one who is so situated in the Divine consciousness, the threefold miseries of material existence exist no longer; in such a happy state, ones intelligence soon becomes steady. Chapter 2, Verse 66. One who is not in transcendental consciousness can have neither a controlled mind nor steady intelligence, without which there is no possibility of peace. And how can there be any happiness without peace? Chapter 2, Verse 67. As a boat on the water is swept away by a strong wind, even one of the senses on which the mind focuses can carry away a mans intelligence. Chapter 2, Verse 68. Therefore, O mighty-armed, one whose senses are restrained from their objects is certainly of steady intelligence. Chapter 2, Verse 69. What is night for all beings is the time of awakening for the self-controlled; and the time of awakening for all beings is night for the introspective sage. Chapter 2, Verse 70. A person who is not disturbed by the incessant flow of desires--that enter like rivers into the ocean which is ever being filled but is always still--can alone achieve peace, and not the man who strives to satisfy such desires. Chapter 2, Verse 71. A person who has given up all desires for sense gratification, who lives free from desires, who has given up all sense of proprietorship and is devoid of false ego--he alone can attain real peace. Chapter 2, Verse 72. That is the way of the spiritual and godly life, after attaining which a man is not bewildered. Being so situated, even at the hour of death, one can enter into the kingdom of God.
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