2. Transcendental Knowledge

Sānkhya Yog

BG 2.70

Just as the ocean remains undisturbed by the incessant flow of waters from rivers merging into it, likewise the sage who is unmoved despite the flow of desirable objects all around him attains peace, and not the person who strives to satisfy desires.

आपूर्यमाणमचलप्रतिष्ठं
समुद्रमापः प्रविशन्ति यद्वत्
तद्वत्कामा यं प्रविशन्ति सर्वे
स शान्तिमाप्नोति न कामकामी



  • āpūryamāṇam — filled from all sides

  • achala-pratiṣhṭhaṁ — undisturbed

    • achala

    • pratiṣhṭhaṁ

  • samudram — ocean

  • āpaḥ — waters

  • praviśhanti — enter

  • yadvat — as

  • tadvat — likewise

  • kāmā — desires

  • yaṁ — whom

  • praviśhanti — enter

  • sarve — all

  • sa — that person

  • śhāntim — peace

  • āpnoti — attains

  • na — not

  • kāma-kāmī — one who fulfills desires

    • kāma — desires

    • kāmī — fulfiller, satisfier

...2.67

Therefore, one whose senses are restrained from the sense objects of their environment is fixed in steady wisdom.

[68]

What all beings consider as day is the night of ignorance for the wise, and what all creatures see as night is the day for the introspective sage.

[69]

Just as the ocean remains undisturbed by the incessant flow of waters from rivers merging into it, likewise the sage who is unmoved despite the flow of desirable objects all around him attains peace, and not the person who strives to satisfy desires.

[70]

That person, who gives up all material desires and lives free from a sense of greed, proprietorship, and egoism, attains perfect peace.

[71]

Such is the realization of Brahma. By attaining this, one attains freedom from delusion in life and liberation from reincarnation in death.

[72]

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Chapter 2, Verse 70