# Bhagavad Gita - 2 Sankhya Yoga

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Bhagavad Gita – Chapter 2 – Sankhya Yoga General Discussion For a person dwelling on objects, attachment arises. From attachment desire is born. When desires do not get fulfilled, anger arises. Due to raga and dwesha, your mind gets robbed. The moment you feel that something is essential for your wellbeing, desires get born. Verse 60 Desires are natural. Wise people understand that turbulent sense forcefully carry away the mind. Intellect acts based on experience. Whenever our mind is driven by the desires, the intellect tries to justify our acts. We justify our aberrations of mind. The one who is established in controlling senses, that person’s wisdom is firm – sthithpragya. Verse 62-65 How to control your senses/ – one should sit in meditation, concentration on Me. When our intellect is directed away from the attachment of the object, the same object comes to us as a prasad. When our relationship to the object is not related to the attachment, we do not long for the object. When our relationship is focused away from the raga and dwesha, then we relate with the object as a prasad-buddhi. This relationship changes when one reaches to the level where intellect (buddhi) is able to recognize the power of senses who can drive your mind away and can break-away from the attachment to the desire (relationship to the desire). Over a certain period of time, intellect reaches to the state where it does not require to control the mind and becomes self-aware and does not require to be controlled.  Because of your relationship with the object changes and mind becomes tranquil & firm. Verse 66-68 A person whose buddhi is unwavering, he/she will be happy all the time. For the one whose wisdom is wavering all the time, peace and happiness cannot reach him.  Once you become established in prasad buddhi, your heart chakra becomes purified. When you recognize that there is no permanent source of happiness, peace and contentment in the external world, you start focusing on inner divinity to become one with brahman. Verse 69 The enlightened person is awake when everyone is sleeping (dream of delusion). When all others awake, the enlightened person sees from outside as a play of mind. An enlightened person is awake to the realty that the true source of happiness, peace and contentment lies inside you. Nisha implies ignorance – an unenlightened person lives in the dream of ignorance. Verse 70-71 For a Sthithpragya person, the desires do not affect him/her or perturb him/her like the water of all rivers enters the sea, but the sea level does not change and stays calm. So too, all desires enter them, yet they attain peace and not driven by all pleasures of life. Verse 72 Having attained it (free from desires and ego), one is free from delusion. Remaining in it at the end of life, one attains brahma-nirvana.