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Bhagavad Gita · 15.5 · The Yoga of the Supreme Divine Personality·5 of 20

निर्मानमोहा जितसङ्गदोषा अध्यात्मनित्या विनिवृत्तकामाःद्वन्द्वैर्विमुक्ताः सुखदुःखसंज्ञै र्गच्छन्त्यमूढाः पदमव्ययं तत्

nirmāna-mohā jita-saṅga-doṣhā adhyātma-nityā vinivṛitta-kāmāḥ

dvandvair vimuktāḥ sukha-duḥkha-sanjñair gachchhanty amūḍhāḥ padam avyayaṁ tat

Sanskrit recitation

The inverted tree of life · 15.1–15.6 · Teaching

Translation

Free from pride and delusion, victorious over the evil of attachment, dwelling constantly in the Self, their desires having completely turned away, freed from the pairs of opposites known as pleasure and pain, they, the undeluded, reach the eternal goal.

Meaning

Wherever there is pride there is stiff egoism. Absence of discrimination between the Real and the unreal is Moha. Perversion is Moha. Infatuation is Moha. Those who are free from likes and dislikes even when they attain pleasant or unpleasant objects have triumphed over the,evil of attachment. Kartritva Abhimana or the idea I am the doer is Sanga. Likes and dislikes are the Doshas or the evils. Heat and cold, pleasure and pain, honour and dishonour, censure and praise, etc., are the pairs of opposites. Only those who have destroyed ignorance and who have attained the knowledge of the Self reach the eternal goal.Adhyatmanityah Ever engaged in the contemplation of the nature of Brahman or the Supreme Being.Vinivrittakamah All the desires vanish in toto without leaving any trace or taint behind. They who have reached this stage become Yatis or Sannyasins. In the fire of wisdom all desires are burnt. As the birds fly away from a tree which has caught fire, so do desires go away from him.Tat That (the goal) described above.

After Swami Sivananda

The inverted tree of life· 15.1–15.6

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

Word-by-word
tat
that
jita
having overcome
māna
vanity
niḥ
free from
padam
abode
avyayam
eternal
saṅga
attachment
mohāḥ
delusion
kāmāḥ
desire to enjoy senses
doṣhāḥ
evils
dvandvaiḥ
from the dualities
gachchhanti
attain
vimuktāḥ
liberated
vinivṛitta
freed from
amūḍhāḥ
unbewildered
saṁjñaiḥ
known as
sukha-duḥkha
pleasure and pain
adhyātma-nityāḥ
dwelling constantly in the self and God

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