2. Transcendental Knowledge

Sānkhya Yog

BG 2.72

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

एषा ब्राह्मी स्थितिः पार्थ नैनां प्राप्य विमुह्यति
स्थित्वाऽस्यामन्तकालेऽपि ब्रह्मनिर्वाणमृच्छति

  • eṣhā — such

  • brāhmī — Brahma

  • sthitiḥ — realization

  • pārtha — Arjuna

  • naināṁ — never this

    • na — never

    • enām — this

  • prāpya — having attained

  • vimuhyati — is deluded

  • sthitvāsyām — being established in this

    • sthitvā — being established

    • asyām — in this

  • anta-kāle — at the time of death

    • anta — time of

    • kāle — death

  • ’pi — even

  • brahma-nirvāṇam — liberation from the material world

    • brahma — Brahma

    • nirvāṇam — highest realization

  • ṛichchhati — attains

...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]

Similar verses

Chapter 2, Verse 72