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Chapter 5 · Action in Kṛṣṇa Consciousness · 29 verses

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How to study this verse, in six steps

1Remember who is speaking. Kṛṣṇa is speaking. Take the verse as He directs.
2Say the verse and its words. Read the Sanskrit, then each word with its meaning.
3Read the translation as it is. Let the translation say what it says, without adding your own meaning.
4Read the purport. Hear the verse through the disciplic succession.
5Bring your own question. Ask: where does this verse meet my life, my trouble, my doubt?
6Act on it, remembering Kṛṣṇa. Carry one instruction into your work today.

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Mind & yogaChapter 5 · Action in Kṛṣṇa Consciousness

5.23 5.25

Bhagavad-gītā As It Is · Text 5.24

Sense control, peace and inner happiness

Jīva · The soul

योऽन्त:सुखोऽन्तरारामस्तथान्तर्ज्योतिरेव य: ।

स योगी ब्रह्मनिर्वाणं ब्रह्मभूतोऽधिगच्छति ॥ २४ ॥

yo ’ntaḥ-sukho ’ntar-ārāmas

tathāntar-jyotir eva yaḥ

sa yogī brahma-nirvāṇaṁ

brahma-bhūto ’dhigacchati

Translation

One whose happiness is within, who is active and rejoices within, and whose aim is inward is actually the perfect mystic. He is liberated in the Supreme, and ultimately he attains the Supreme.

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What this verse is saying, and where it sits in the story.

3 study points

Finding Happiness Within

1
The perfect mystic finds happiness within, is active within, and aims inward. He is liberated in the Supreme and ultimately attains the Supreme.
2
Prabhupāda explains that a liberated person truly enjoys inner happiness and no longer desires material happiness. This state assures return home, back to Godhead.
3
Seek happiness within rather than pursuing superficial material happiness.

Key points from the purport

Higher taste — One gets the strength to tolerate the sensual urges by focussing his happiness, activities and goals inward

Connected verses · 3

Texts 5.23 & 5.24

The pleasure of spiritual realization is the topic of the next verse

Texts 5.24 And 5.25

Krishna gives more symptoms of one seeking satisfaction in spirit, not matter

Texts 5.24 & 5.25

After reading Text 5.24 and 5.25, we may think that achieving

liberation is too difficult, and we may become discouraged. In Text 5.24, Srila Prabhupada’s translation uses the word “ultimately,” as if to caution us that the result won’t be quickly achieved. Similarly, the qualities mentioned in these two verses are rarely found. In the next verse, however, Krishna speaks reassuringly.