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TEXT 51-53 buddhya visuddhaya yukto
vivikta-sevi laghv-asi
ahankaram balam darpam
SYNONYMS  buddhya--by
the intelligence; visuddhaya--fully purified; yuktah--such
engagement; dhrtya--determination; atmanam--self; niyamya--regulated;
ca--also; sabda-adin--the sense objects, such as sound, etc.;
visayan--sense objects; tyaktva--giving up; raga--attachment;
dvesau--hatred; vyudasya--having laid aside; ca--also;
vivikta-sevi--living in a secluded place; laghu-asi--eating
a small quantity; yata-vak--control of speech; kaya--body;
manasah--control of the mind; dhyana-yoga-parah--always absorbed
in trance; nityam--twenty-four hours a day; vairagyam--detachment;
samupasritah--taken shelter of; ahankaram--false ego; balam--false
strength; darpam--false pride; kamam--lust; krodham--anger;
parigraham--acceptance of material things; vimucya--being
delivered; nirmamah--without proprietorship; santah--peaceful;
brahma-bhuyaya--to become self-realized; kalpate--is understood.
TRANSLATION Being purified
by his intelligence and controlling the mind with determination, giving
up the objects of sense gratification, being freed from attachment and
hatred, one who lives in a secluded place, who eats little and who controls
the body and the tongue, and is always in trance and is detached, who is
without false ego, false strength, false pride, lust, anger, and who does
not accept material things, such a person is certainly elevated to the
position of self-realization.
PURPORT When one is
purified by knowledge, he keeps himself in the mode of goodness. Thus one
becomes the controller of the mind and is always in trance. Because he
is not attached to the objects of sense gratification, he does not eat
more than what he requires, and he controls the activities of his body
and mind. He has no false ego because he does not accept the body as himself.
Nor has he a desire to make the body fat and strong by accepting so many
material things. Because he has no bodily concept of life, he is not falsely
proud. He is satisfied with everything that is offered to him by the grace
of the Lord, and he is never angry in the absence of sense gratification.
Nor does he endeavor to acquire sense objects. Thus when he is completely
free from false ego, he becomes nonattached to all material things, and
that is the stage of self-realization of Brahman. That stage is called
the brahma-bhuta stage. When one is free from the material conception
of life, he becomes peaceful and cannot be agitated.
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