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Bhagavad Gita · 3.34 · Path of Selfless Service·34 of 43

इन्द्रियस्येन्द्रियस्यार्थे रागद्वेषौ व्यवस्थितौतयोर्न वशमागच्छेत्तौ ह्यस्य परिपन्थिनौ

indriyasyendriyasyārthe rāga-dveṣhau vyavasthitau

tayor na vaśham āgachchhet tau hyasya paripanthinau

Sanskrit recitation

Your work, not someone else’s · 3.30–3.35 · Teaching

Translation

Attachment and aversion for the objects of the senses abide in the senses; let no one come under their sway; for, they are his enemies.

Meaning

Each sense has got attraction for a pleasant object and aversion for a disagreeable object. If one can control these two currents, viz., attachment and aversion, he will not come under the sway of these two currents. Here lies the scope for personal exertion or Purushartha. Nature which contains the sum total of ones Samskaras or the latent selfproductive impressions of the past actions of merit and demerit draws a man to its course through the two currents, attachment and aversion. If one can control these two currents, if he can rise above the sway of love and hate through discrimination and Vichara or right enquiry, he can conquer Nature and attain immortality and eternal bliss. He willl no longer be subject to his own nature now. One should always exert to free himself from attachment and aversion to the objects of the senses.

After Swami Sivananda

Your work, not someone else’s· 3.30–3.35

Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.

Word-by-word
hi
certainly
na
never
tau
those
asya
for him
rāga
attachment
tayoḥ
of them
vaśham
be controlled
dveṣhau
aversion
indriyasya
of the senses
āgachchhet
should become
vyavasthitau
situated
paripanthinau
foes
indriyasya arthe
in the sense objects

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