Bhagavad-Gita As It Is. Text 2.54-2.57

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Bhagavad-Gita As It Is.Text 2.54-2.57

• Symptoms of
• Self realized soul.

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Text 54

• arjuna uväca
• sthita-prajïasya kä bhäñä
• samädhi-sthasya keçava
• sthita-dhéù kià prabhäñeta
• kim äséta vrajeta kim
• Arjuna said O Kåñëa, 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?

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Symptoms

• How does he Speak? His Language and what does he
  speak?
• How does he walk?
• How does he sit?
• These are very intelligent questions.

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Text 55

• çré-bhagavän uväca
• prajahäti yadä kämän
• sarvän pärtha mano-gatän
• ätmany evätmanä tuñöaù
• sthita-prajïas tadocyate
• The Blessed Lord said O Pärtha, 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.

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Krsna begins describing the symptoms of self
realized soul.

• One who has given up all the desires of sense
  gratification.
• Creation of polluted mind Sense Gratification.
• E.g. enjoying food or sex pleasure.

• Satisfied within.
• Search of happiness outside
• Real happiness within.
• Realizing ones constitutional position in
  relation to Supreme Lord brings complete
  satisfaction.

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Text 56
duùkheñv anudvigna-manäù sukheñu
vigata-spåhaù véta-räga-bhaya-krodhaù sthita-dhér
munir ucyate 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.
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Symptoms cont

• Not disturbed by misery and not elated by
  happiness.
• Free from attachment, Fear and Anger.
• Muni What is muni? And what is Sthita-dhir
  Muni?
• Upon meeting good/evil doesnt praise or despise,
  but remains equiposed fixed in transcendental
  Knowledge. (Text 57)