Commentary. Chinmaya

 

chinmaya gita

By identifying with the agitations of the mind, the ego is born, and, the ego so born gets riddled with desires as it gets anxious for the fruits-of-its actions. 

DO NOT identify with the agitations of the mind

always with Higher Goal in view work with neither ego nor desires, 

"When your intellect crosses beyond the mire of delusion,

then you shall attain to indifference as to what has been heard

and what is yet to be heard." 52

 the intellect will develop a disgust,/NOT SAME AS INDIFFERENCE 

"FOR ALL THAT IS

ACTUALLY HEARD AND THAT IS YET TO BE

HEARD." all "sense experiences that are/yet to be ...experienced."

This cause of delusion is Maya. 

(Like unmanifested electricity,) Maya, is not perceptible and can be fully estimated and accounted

for only through its varied expressions.

 it comes to play in two distinct modes of expression, at two different layers of the human personality. 

at the intellectual level it expresses itself as a film of doubt and hesitation in its understanding, or experiencing, of the Self in us. 

This expression Maya is termed the "Veiling-Power" (Avarana-Shakti).

the mind starts projecting forth the world of the not-Self

and superimposes upon it two firm ideas 

(a) "it is true" (Satyattwa), and 

(b) that "I am nothing other than the projected world" (Atmabuddhi).

 This is Maya's expression as "Projecting-Power" (Vikshepa-Shakti).

to the extent the illusion of ignorance melts away in an

integrated intellect, to that extent its wanderings in the

sensuous-world are curtailed.

The intellect should not relive its memory of the sensuous joys it had experienced in the past and also not think of joys in the future to be experienced through the sense-organs, in the world of sense-objects.

 intellect,- though perplexed by what has been heard -

should stand immovable and steady in the Self,

 even in the midst of enjoying sensuous pleasures, and even while the sense-organs are letting in a flood of stimuli,

one should not get at all disturbed in one's inner serenity and equipoise 

easy thumb-rule as to values and mental attitudes one should develop, 

· completely cast off all the desires of the mind, 

· satisfied in the Self by the Self, 

· develop an intellect, uncontaminated by ignorance ( the breeding-ground of desires,) 

· relieve self of this 'Ignorance' through 'Right-Knowledge' gained in Perception, 

· mind not shaken by adversity, 

· in prosperity not hanker after pleasures, 

· free from attachment, fear and anger,