The Splash of Wisdom

Chapter 2. Contents of the Bhagwad Gita Summarized ( Shloka 62 - 63) Dhyayato Vishayaat Punsaha, Sangasteshu upajaayate | Sangaat sanjaayate kaamaha kaamaat Krodhobhihi jaayate  । | Krodhaat bhavati sammoha Sammohaat smrutivibhramaha | Smrutibhranshaat buddhinaasho, buddhinaashat pranashyati  । |  (Gita 2/62) SYNONYMS dhyayatah --while contemplating; visayan --sense objects; pumsah --of the person; sangah --attachment; tesu --in the sense objects; upajayate --develops; sangat --attachment; sanjayate --develops; kamah --desire; kamat --from desire; krodhah --anger; abhijayate --becomes manifest. krodhat --from anger; bhavati --takes place; sammohah --perfect illusion; sammohat --from illusion; smrti --of memory; vibhramah --bewilderment; smrti-bhramsat --after bewilderment of memory; buddhi-nasah --loss of intelligence; buddhi-nasat --and from loss of intelligence; pranasyati --falls down. TRANSLATION While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attac...

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Opportunities in life to row often come in unpredictable ways. It generally slips out, as we do not have a positive attitude for the `touchstone'. The touchstone is a story of ancient Egypt that underlines that habit of anything can bring failure to a person if he goes on with the habit for long. During the burning of the great library of Alexandria, one book was saved by a person. Though the book was not that interesting, it had a few pages over the secrets of the touchstone. It, according to book, was a small warm pebble that could turn any metal into pure gold, but it was lying mixed with other ordinary pebbles. The dif- ference between a touchstone and an ordinary pebble was that whereas the latter was cool, the touchstone was warm all the time. That person, for acquiring the touchstone, brought a huge supply of pebbles and camped on the seashore. He knew that if he picked up the pebbles and threw them down again because they were cold, he might pick up the same peb- bles h...