Sankhya Yoga
Chapter 2, Verse 66
nÄsti buddhir-ayuktasya
na cÄpyuktasya bhÄvanÄ
na cÄbhÄvayataįø„ ÅÄntir
aÅÄntasya kutaįø„ sukham
For one who is not in yoga, there is no intelligence, no concentration; for him without concentration, there is no peace; and for the restless, how can there be happiness?
The man lacking self-control can have no peace of mind and canāt think of God. Heās always running to the outside world; so how can he think and concentrate on the ocean of the supreme bliss? How can he become calm and tranquil? He will not be able to concentrate, because he doesnāt even know what peace is. The mind of the worldly man remains ever-distracted and his heart remains constantly burning and agitated under the impulse of love and hate. He canāt concentrate, because he is busy either loving or hating. He is always concentrating always on lust and anger, greed and jealousy.
Krishna says to Arjuna, āCentre yourself in equal-mindedness. Try your best to become equal-minded, so that you can free yourself.ā You can control your emotions. An uncontrolled mind has no peace and is always aggressive. Without peace of mind, there can be no true happiness. One can create a certain illusion of happiness and think that one is happy. How many people do that? Many! You ask people, āWhy are you happy?ā They say, āI donāt know why Iām happy. Iām happy because of this. Iām happy because of that.ā Anyone who doesnāt have spiritual knowledge, the knowledge of the Self, who is not on the way to loving God, doesnāt know real happiness.
When people talk about love, they have no clue what love is. What they call love is actually just infatuation. They long for caring or being looked after. When you look at how people love in the outside world, you see that all these relationships are fake! All this happiness which people create in the outside world is not true! Itās only true for the mind, because itās feeding the mind. It makes one feel happy: āOh I am happy, if someone is pleasing me to be happy. But if I am alone, I am depressed.ā Itās true! āOh, I am terrible Oh ohā¦ā Itās always about oneself, always about craving for attention! This is what people call happiness. These self-pitying people crave attention. The world revolves around this.
Krishna says to Arjuna, āDonāt feel sorry for yourself! What happiness can come of this? What true joy can come of it? This will reduce you to a very pitiful state, to an animal state! So donāt go into that. Be free from that!ā In that state, you will never have peace. You will be restless and unhappy! Even if you create an illusion of being happy, the moment this illusion is removed, you will again be unhappy. Wake up! God is the most important thing! He is the main object of enjoyment. He is the Ultimate ā not this illusion that you call happiness. When your heart itself is truly happy, then you will always be happy. But when your mind is happy, you should be careful!
NÄsti buddhir-ayuktasya: here Krishna says āThe stupid mind! It is not intelligent!ā People call this state of non-intelligence, intelligence.
Bhagavad Gita
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