Chapter Two "the Yoga of Knowledge"

Verse 55 & 56 - the Marks of a stable Minded Yogi Who has Attained God Realization

The Lord said, "When a person completely casts off, O Arjuna, all the desires of the mind and is satisfied in the Self, by the Self, then he is said to be of steady wisdom."

  A person of steady wisdom (sthiti prajna) is one who has experienced the Self, and being completely satisfied in the Self, he or she has renounced all worldly desires. In contrast to this is an person of unsteady intellect whose mind is saturated with worldly desires and whose intellecr is veiled by ignorance. This veiled (ignorant) intellect is the breeding ground of all desires and it is the place in which the wgo of individuality gets firmly rooted.

(to be continued)

(from: Commentary and Translation by Baba Hari Dassi, Pathways, Hanuman Fellowship Newsletter, Santa Cruz, Dec.2001/Jan 2002).