Bhagavad Gita 2.52यदा ते मोहकलिलं बुद्धिर्व्यतितरिष्यति।तदा गन्तासि निर्वेदं श्रोतव्यस्य श्रुतस्य च ॥
yadā te moha-kalilaṁ buddhir vyatitariṣhyati
tadā gantāsi nirvedaṁ śhrotavyasya śhrutasya cha
Sanskrit recitation
Act without clinging to the fruit · 2.47–2.53 · Teaching
Translation
When your intellect passes beyond the mire of delusion, then you will attain indifference to what has been heard and what has yet to be heard.
Hindi translation
जिस समय तेरी बुद्धि मोहरूपी दलदलको तर जायगी, उसी समय तू सुने हुए और सुननेमें आनेवाले भोगोंसे वैराग्यको प्राप्त हो जायगा।
Meaning
The mire of delusion is the identification of the Self with the notself. The sense of discrimination between the Self and the notSelf is confounded by the mire of delusion and the mind runs towards the sensual objects and the body is takes as the pure Self. When you attain purity of mind, you will attain to indifference regarding things heard and yet to be heard. They will appear to you to be of no use. You will not care a bit for them. You will entertain disgust for them. (Cf.XVI.24).
After Swami Sivananda
Act without clinging to the fruit· 2.47–2.53→
Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.
- 2.47Your right is only to work, but not to its results; do not let the results of action be…
- 2.48Perform action, O Arjuna, being steadfast in Yoga, abandoning attachment and balanced in…
- 2.49Far lower than the Yoga of wisdom is action, O Arjuna. Seek thou refuge in wisdom;…
- 2.50Endowed with wisdom and evenness of mind, one casts off in this life both good and evil…
- 2.51The wise, possessing knowledge, having abandoned the fruits of their actions, and being…
2.52When your intellect passes beyond the mire of delusion, then you will attain indifference…
- 2.53When your intellect, which is perplexed by the Vedic texts you have read, stands immovable…
Word-by-word→
- te
- your
- cha
- and
- moha
- delusion
- tadā
- then
- yadā
- when
- kalilam
- quagmire
- gantāsi
- you shall acquire
- nirvedam
- indifferent
- buddhiḥ
- intellect
- śhrutasya
- to what has been heard
- śhrotavyasya
- to what is yet to be heard
- vyatitariṣhyati
- crosses
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