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Bhagavad Gita Bhasya (Gambhirananada)

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one's behaving like lunatics or drunkards. [A<br />

lunatic is one who has lost his power of<br />

discrimination, and a drunkard is one who has that<br />

power but ignores it.] Hence it is said: Tustah,<br />

remains satisfied; atmani eva, in the Self alone, in<br />

the very nature of the inmost Self; atmana, by the<br />

Self which is his own -- indifferent to external<br />

gains, and satiated with everything else on account<br />

of having attained the nector of realization of the<br />

supreme Goal; tada, then; ucyate, he is called;<br />

sthita-prajnah, a man of steady wisdom, a man of<br />

realization, one whose wisdom, arising from the<br />

discrimination between the Self and the not-Self, is<br />

stable. The idea is that the man of steady wisdom is<br />

a monk, who has renounced the desire for<br />

progeny, wealth and the worlds, and who delights<br />

in the Self and disports in the Self.<br />

2.56 That monk is called a man of steady wisdom<br />

when his mind is unperturbed in sorrow, he is free<br />

from longing for delights, and has gone beyond<br />

attachment, fear and anger.<br />

English Translation of Sri Sankaracharya's Sanskrit<br />

Commentary - Swami Gambhirananda<br />

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