When thy reason has crossed the entanglements of illusion, then shalt thou become
indifferent both to the philosophies thou hast heard and to those thou mayest yet hear.
When the intellect, bewildered by the multiplicity of holy scripts, stands unperturbed in
blissful contemplation of the Infinite, then hast thou attained Spirituality.
Arjuna asked: My Lord! How can we recognise the saint who has attained Pure Intellect,
who has reached this state of Bliss, and whose mind is steady? how does he talk, how does
he live, and how does he act?
Lord Shri Krishna replied: When a man has given up the desires of his heart and is satisfied
with the Self alone, be sure that he has reached the highest state.
The sage, whose mind is unruffled in suffering, whose desire is not roused by enjoyment,
who is without attachment, anger or fear – take him to be one who stands at that lofty
level.
He who wherever he goes is attached to no person and to no place by ties of flesh; who
accepts good and evil alike, neither welcoming the one nor shrinking from the other – take
him to be one who is merged in the Infinite.
He who can withdraw his senses from the attraction of their objects, as the tortoise draws
his limbs within its shell – take it that such a one has attained Perfection.
The objects of sense turn from him who is abstemious. Even the relish for them is lost in
him who has seen the Truth.
O Arjuna! The mind of him, who is trying to conquer it, is forcibly carried away in spite of
his efforts, by his tumultuous senses.
Restraining them all, let him meditate steadfastly on Me; for who thus conquers his senses
achieves perfection.
When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them; attraction
develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.
Anger induces delusion; delusion, loss of memory; through loss of memory, reason is
shattered; and loss of reason leads to destruction.
But the self-controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment
or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.
Having attained Peace, he becomes free from misery; for when the mind gains peace, right
discrimination follows.
Right discrimination is not for him who cannot concentrate. Without concentration, there
cannot be meditation; he who cannot meditate must not expect peace; and without peace,
how can anyone expect happiness?
As a ship at sea is tossed by the tempest, so the reason is carried away by the mind when
preyed upon by straying senses.
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