🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 2.62
Chapter 2 · सांख्ययोग · Sāṅkhya-Yoga · "The Yoga of Knowledge" · Verse 62 of 72
🪷 English Translations
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Shri Purohit Swami · Poetic English · 1935 · public domain · Cosmo Press tradition
2.62 When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them; attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
2.62 When a man thinks of the objects, attachment for them arises; from attachment desire is born; from desire anger arises.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
2.62 Pumsah, in the case of a person; dhyayatah, who dwells on, thinks of; visayan, the objects, the specialities [Specialities: The charms imagined in them.] of the objects such as sound etc.; upajayate, there arises; sangah, attachment, fondness, love; tesu, for them, for those objects. Sangat, from attachment, from love; sanjayate, grows; kamah, hankering, thirst. When that is obstructed from any arter, kamat, from hankering; abhijayate, springs; krodhah, anger. Krodhat, from anger; bhavati, follows; sammohah, delusion, absence of discrimination with regard to what should or should not be done. For, an angry man, becoming deluded, abuses even a teacher.
Sammohat, from delusion; (comes) smrti-vibhramah, failure of memory originating from the impressions acired from the instructions of the scriptures and teachers. When there is an occasion for memory to rise, it does not occur. Smrti-bhramsat, from that failure of memory; (results) buddhi-nasah, loss of understanding. The unfitness of the mind to discriminate between what should or should not be done is called loss of understanding. Buddhi-nasat, from the loss of understanding; pranasyati, he perishes. Indeed, a man continues tobe himself so long as his mind remains fit to distinguish between what he ought to and ought not do. When it becomes unfit, a man is verily ruined. Therefore, when his internal organ, his understanding, is destroyed, a man is ruined, i.e. he becomes unfit for the human Goal.
Thinking of objects has been said to be the root of all evils. After that, this which is the cause of Liberation is being now stated: [If even the memory of objects be a source of evil, then their enjoyment is more so. Hence, a sannyasin seeking Liberation cannot avoid this evil, since he has to move about for food which is necessary for the maintenance of his body. The present verse is an answer to this apprehension.]
Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school
2.62 Indeed, in respect of a person, whose attachment to sense-objects is expelled but whose mind is not focussed on Me, even though he controls the senses, contemplation on sense-objects is unavoidable on account of the impressions of sins from time immemorial. Again attachment increases fully in 'a man who thinks about sense-objects'. From attachment arises desire.' What is called 'desire' is the further stage of attachment. After reaching that stage, it is not possible for a man to stay without experiencing the sense-objects. 'From such desire arises anger.' When a desire exists without its object being nearby, anger arises against persons nearby under the following. 'Our desire is thwarted by these persons.'
'From anger there comes delusion'. Delusion is want of discrimination between what ought to be done and what ought not to be done. Not possessing that discrimination one does anything and everything. Then there follows the failure of memory, i.e., of the impressions of the earlier efforts of sense control, when one strives again to control the senses.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly
2.62. In a person, meditating on sense-objects, attachment or them is born in succession; from attachment springs passion; from passion arises wrath.
🪷 Hindi Translation · हिन्दी अनुवाद
For the Hindi-aware seer · Pūjya Swami Rāmsukhdās ji's translation · the highest-readability modern Hindi rendering · Gītā-Press Gorakhpur tradition.
🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Sādhaka-Sañjīvanī tradition · Gītā-Press Gorakhpur · highest modern Hindi reading
।।2.62 -- 2.63।। विषयोंका चिन्तन करनेवाले मनुष्यकी उन विषयोंमें आसक्ति पैदा हो जाती है। आसक्तिसे कामना पैदा होती है। कामनासे क्रोध पैदा होता है। क्रोध होनेपर सम्मोह (मूढ़भाव) हो जाता है। सम्मोहसे स्मृति भ्रष्ट हो जाती है। स्मृति भ्रष्ट होनेपर बुद्धिका नाश हो जाता है। बुद्धिका नाश होनेपर मनुष्यका पतन हो जाता है।
🪷 English Commentaries · The Ācārya Voices
The classical commentary tradition rendered in English · each ācārya speaks from their own sampradāya · the seer chooses the depth of darśana.
Swami Sivananda · Verse-by-verse word-keys with Sanskrit anchors
2.62 ध्यायतः thinking? विषयान् (on) objects of the senses? पुंसः of a man? सङ्गः attachment? तेषु in them? उपजायते arises? सङ्गात् from attachment? संजायते is born? कामः desire? कामात् from desire? क्रोधः anger? अभिजायते arises.Commentary When a man thinks of the beauty and the pleasant and alluring features of the senseobjects he becomes attached to them. He then regards them as something worthy of acisition and possession and hankers after them. He develops a strong desire to possess them. Then he endeavours his level best to obtain them. When his desire is frustrated by some cause or other? anger arises in his mind. If anybody puts any obstruction in his way of obtaining the objects he hates him? fights with him and develops hostility towards hi. (Cf.II.64).
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
2.62 Pumsah, in the case of a person; dhyayatah, who dwells on, thinks of; visayan, the objects, the specialities [Specialities: The charms imagined in them.] of the objects such as sound etc.; upajayate, there arises; sangah, attachment, fondness, love; tesu, for them, for those objects. Sangat, from attachment, from love; sanjayate, grows; kamah, hankering, thirst. When that is obstructed from any arter, kamat, from hankering; abhijayate, springs; krodhah, anger. Krodhat, from anger; bhavati, follows; sammohah, delusion, absence of discrimination with regard to what should or should not be done. For, an angry man, becoming deluded, abuses even a teacher.
Sammohat, from delusion; (comes) smrti-vibhramah, failure of memory originating from the impressions acired from the instructions of the scriptures and teachers. When there is an occasion for memory to rise, it does not occur. Smrti-bhramsat, from that failure of memory; (results) buddhi-nasah, loss of understanding. The unfitness of the mind to discriminate between what should or should not be done is called loss of understanding. Buddhi-nasat, from the loss of understanding; pranasyati, he perishes. Indeed, a man continues tobe himself so long as his mind remains fit to distinguish between what he ought to and ought not do. When it becomes unfit, a man is verily ruined. Therefore, when his internal organ, his understanding, is destroyed, a man is ruined, i.e. he becomes unfit for the human Goal.
Thinking of objects has been said to be the root of all evils. After that, this which is the cause of Liberation is being now stated: [If even the memory of objects be a source of evil, then their enjoyment is more so. Hence, a sannyasin seeking Liberation cannot avoid this evil, since he has to move about for food which is necessary for the maintenance of his body. The present verse is an answer to this apprehension.]
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
2.62 Indeed, in respect of a person, whose attachment to sense-objects is expelled but whose mind is not focussed on Me, even though he controls the senses, contemplation on sense-objects is unavoidable on account of the impressions of sins from time immemorial. Again attachment increases fully in 'a man who thinks about sense-objects'. From attachment arises desire.' What is called 'desire' is the further stage of attachment. After reaching that stage, it is not possible for a man to stay without experiencing the sense-objects. 'From such desire arises anger.' When a desire exists without its object being nearby, anger arises against persons nearby under the following. 'Our desire is thwarted by these persons.'
'From anger there comes delusion'. Delusion is want of discrimination between what ought to be done and what ought not to be done. Not possessing that discrimination one does anything and everything. Then there follows the failure of memory, i.e., of the impressions of the earlier efforts of sense control, when one strives again to control the senses.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship
2.62 See Comment under 2.63
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।2.62।। no commentary.
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🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Sādhaka-Sañjīvanī · Hindi vyākhyā · the modern bilingual anchor
2.62।। व्याख्या--'ध्यायतो विषयान्पुंसः सङ्गस्तेषूपजायते'-- भगवान्के परायण न होनेसे भगवान्का चिन्तन न होनेसे विषयोंका ही चिन्तन होता है। कारण कि जीवके एक तरफ परमात्मा है और एक तरफ संसार है। जब वह परमात्माका आश्रय छोड़ देता है तब वह संसारका आश्रय लेकर संसारका ही चिन्तन करता है क्योंकि संसारके सिवाय चिन्तनका कोई दूसरा विषय रहता ही नहीं। इस तरह चिन्तन करतेकरते मनुष्यकी उन विषयोंमें आसक्ति राग प्रियता पैदा हो जाती है। आसक्ति पैदा होनेसे मनुष्य उन विषयोंका सेवन करता है। विषयोंका सेवन चाहे मानसिक हो चाहे शारीरिक हो उससे जो सुख होता है उससे विषयोंमें प्रियता पैदा होती है। प्रियतासे उस विषयका बारबार चिन्तन होने लगता है। अब उस विषयका सेवन करे चाहे न करे पर विषयोंमें राग पैदा हो ही जाता है यह नियम है।
'सङ्गात्संजायते कामः'-- विषयोंमें राग पैदा होनेपर उन विषयोंको (भोगोंको) प्राप्त करनेकी कामना पैदा हो जाती है कि वे भोग वस्तुएँ मेरेको मिलें।
'कामात्क्रोधोऽभिजायते'-- कामनाके अनुकूल पदार्थोंके मिलते रहनेसे लोभ पैदा हो जाता है और कामनापूर्तिकी सम्भावना हो रही है पर उसमें कोई बाधा देता है तो उसपर क्रोध आ जाता है।
कामना एक ऐसी चीज है जिसमें बाधा पड़नेपर क्रोध पैदा हो ही जाता है। वर्ण आश्रम गुण योग्यता आदिको लेकर अपनेमें जो अच्छाईका अभिमान रहता है उस अभिमानमें भी अपने आदर सम्मान आदिकी कामना रहती है उस कामनामें किसी व्यक्तिके द्वारा बाधा पड़नेपर भी क्रोध पैदा हो जाता है।
कामना रजोगुणी वृत्ति है सम्मोह तमोगुणी वृत्ति है और क्रोध रजोगुण तथा तमोगुणके बीचकी वृत्ति है।
कहीं भी किसी भी बातको लेकर क्रोध आता है तो उसके मूलमें कहींनकहीं राग अवश्य होता है। जैसे नीतिन्यायसे विरुद्ध काम करनेवालेको देखकर क्रोध आता है तो नीतिन्यायमें राग है। अपमानतिरस्कार करनेवालेपर क्रोध आता है तो मानसत्कारमें राग है। निन्दा करनेवालेपर क्रोध आता है तो प्रशंसामें राग है। दोषारोपण करनेवालेपर क्रोध आता है तो निर्दोषताके अभिमानमें राग है आदिआदि।
'क्रोधाद्भवति सम्मोहः'-- क्रोधसे सम्मोह होता है अर्थात् मूढ़ता छा जाती है। वास्तवमें देखा जाय तो काम क्रोध लोभ और ममता इन चारोंसे ही सम्मोह होता है जैसे
(1) कामसे जो सम्मोह होता है उसमें विवेकशक्ति ढक जानेसे मनुष्य कामके वशीभूत होकर न करनेलायक कार्य भी कर बैठता है।
(2) क्रोधसे जो सम्मोह होता है उसमें मनुष्य अपने मित्रों तथा पूज्यजनोंको भी उलटीसीधी बातें कह बैठता है और न करनेलायक बर्ताव भी कर बैठता है।
(3) लोभसे जो सम्मोह होता है उसमें मनुष्यको सत्यअसत्य धर्मअधर्म आदिका विचार नहीं रहता और वह कपट करके लोगोंको ठग लेता है।
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- This is verse 62 of 72 in Chapter 2 · Sāṅkhya-Yoga (The Yoga of Knowledge)
- Chapter theme: Krishna's first teaching · the niṣkāma-karma sūtra · BG 2.47
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