For a wise person whom they vex not, O Arjuna, and to whom sorrow and happiness are the same, is fit for?

Question

"For a wise person whom they vex not, O Arjuna, and to whom sorrow and happiness are the same, is fit for immortality"

" He who is not entangled by the sense-objects does not feel pleasure and pain and does not become involved in rebirth. That which does not crone under the sway of sense-objects is eternal; know this, O Arjuna. "

Source :- http://www.saibaba.us/texts/jnaneshwari/chpt02.html

may be you are aware of the 15 th verse in second chapter of Bhagavad Gita.

What's ur take ?

Answer 1

One of the deepest thoughts ever put on paper in the history of humanity.
It illustrates the main difference between the Orient and the Occident in matters of religion. It is also why I have turned to the Orient more and more for my religious inspiration, despite my Western upbringing. In the West, God dictates and man follows. In the East, man looks within himself and seeks truth. It seems to me to be more characteristic of a being taking responsibility for his existence that he should start with what he is, and not what is written he should be.
Your passage also illustrates a struggle that is central to Oriental philosophies in general. Desire is present in the mind, even sometimes unjust desires. We cannot simply wish those desires away, nor can we struggle them into submission. The path is a path of observance and acceptance. I am personally of the school of thought that enlightenment is gradual.

Answer 2

Arjun is symbolising the mortality. Immortality should be the the goal of every mortal. It is a great leap , a very very long jump. The pleasures ,sorrows are to be lived ,are to be beared .... and every time it's NETI NETI , not this ;not this. This is effortless effort .Just be the observer silent observer then and only then mortal can be transformed into an immortal.

Answer 3

Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation. In the varëäçrama institution, the fourth stage of life, namely the renounced order (sannyäsa), is a painstaking situation. But one who is serious about making his life perfect surely adopts the sannyäsa order of life in spite of all difficulties. The difficulties usually arise from having to sever family relationships, to give up the connection of wife and children. But if anyone is able to tolerate such difficulties, surely his path to spiritual realization is complete. Similarly, in Arjuna's discharge of duties as a kñatriya, he is advised to persevere, even if it is difficult to fight with his family members or similarly beloved persons. Lord Caitanya took sannyäsa at the age of twenty-four, and His dependents, young wife as well as old mother, had no one else to look after them. Yet for a higher cause He took sannyäsa and was steady in the discharge of higher duties. That is the way of achieving liberation from material bondage.

Answer 4

if it is rightly taken into consideration, it is the best example of wise person. life is a living between birth and death. so the senses make sense here. all wise men discovered the truth and spread the message for the betterment of humanity only.like Buddah.

Answer 5

I don't understand what the message is. It looks like some kind of cult, though. How the weak minded are blindly led.

Answer 6

Yup, you got that right.