70. Bhagavad Gita | Chapter 5 Verse 24-29 | Swami Sarvapriyananda
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🗓️ 18 April 2021
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| 0:00.0 | O'm, Vasudeva, suttam-devim, Kamsachanurramadanam, |
| 0:08.0 | Devaki, Paramanandandam, Krishna, Vandha, Gura. |
| 0:18.0 | We are almost at the end of the fifth chapter. |
| 0:23.6 | And we saw in the verses, we're going to do verse number 24 today. |
| 0:31.6 | Before that, we saw Baha'i as per sheshwasaatatat verse number 21. |
| 0:40.3 | Vindati Atman yat suhgham. |
| 0:43.3 | So this tendency we have of flowing outwards of trying to attain satisfaction of fulfillment from |
| 0:53.3 | external objects, from the other so from taste and |
| 1:00.8 | smell and sight and touch sense pleasures and never works no amount of it |
| 1:07.8 | will will satisfy you it just increases restlessness So the person who is who withdraws from trying to get |
| 1:16.5 | pleasure from external, you know, from sense pleasures, that that person is fit for |
| 1:23.5 | enjoying the bliss of the Atman. What is meant by the bliss of the Atman is the very infinitude of the Atman, this unlimited being, |
| 1:32.3 | unlimited awareness. |
| 1:34.3 | This is the source of fulfillment. |
| 1:36.3 | And it is experienced not as an object. |
| 1:40.3 | So it is the source of all joy. |
| 1:43.3 | All of our joy is because of the Atman. |
| 1:47.0 | And the enlightened person also experiences joy, fulfillment in the mind. |
| 1:54.0 | So it's not that the one who has become enlightened will certainly stop having any kind of objective mental happiness, the kind we are |
| 2:02.6 | accustomed to. That question arises, you know, as people think that you are sort of sidestepping, |
| 2:07.6 | they should tell us directly. Is the enlightened person happy or not? Yes, very happy. And continuously so. |
| 2:15.6 | But again, we must remember that happiness is also reflected, is an arising in the mind, |
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