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Bhagavad-gītā As It Is · Text 2.64
रागद्वेषविमुक्तैस्तु विषयनिन्द्रियैश्चरन् ।
आत्मवश्यैर्विधेयात्मा प्रसादमधिगच्छति ॥ ६४ ॥
rāga-dveṣa-vimuktais tu
viṣayān indriyaiś caran
ātma-vaśyair vidheyātmā
prasādam adhigacchati
But a person free from all attachment and aversion and able to control his senses through regulative principles of freedom can obtain the complete mercy of the Lord.
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3 study points
A person free from attachment and aversion, who controls the senses through principles of freedom, can obtain the Lord’s complete mercy.
Outward sense control alone can fail unless the senses are engaged in serving the Lord.
A Kṛṣṇa conscious devotee acts only to satisfy Kṛṣṇa, not himself. This consciousness is the Lord’s causeless mercy.
While engages senses, he does with regulation and religious principles
The self-realized person is free from all attachment and aversion
He controls his senses through regulative principles of freedom
Thus he obtains the complete mercy of the Lord
How a Krishna conscious person transcends all attachment and aversion
He may appear to be on the sensual plane, but he has no attachment to sensual activities
He is only concerned with the satisfaction of Krishna and nothing else
If Krishna wants, one can do anything ordinarily undesirable
If Krishna does not want, one shall not do that which he would have ordinarily done for his own satisfaction
On what strength does a devotee achieves this exalted consciousness
This consciousness is the causeless mercy of the Lord, which the devotee can achieve in spite of his being attached to the sensual platform
Become fixed in Krishna Consciousness
By working in Buddhi-yoga one attains ‘material detachment’ and the ‘equipoised platform of liberation’ called Samadhi
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The spiritual concepts this verse connects to.
Key ideas: manas, indriya, yoga.
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What does BG 2.64 establish in Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport, and how does it connect to mind & yoga?
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