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Verse 5·23

The yogi finds bliss in the Self alone

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शक्नोतीहैव यः सोढुं प्राक्शरीरविमोक्षणात् ।कामक्रोधोद्भवं वेगं स युक्तः स सुखी नरः ॥

śaknotīhaiva yaḥ soḍhuṃ prākśarīravimokṣaṇātkāmakrodhodbhavaṃ vegaṃ sa yuktaḥ sa sukhī naraḥ

He who bear here in the body the velocity of wrath and desire, is the Yogin, the happy man.

Gītā 5·23

The non-attachment is essential, it says, in order to be free from the attacks of desire and wrath and passion, a freedom without which true happiness is not possible. That happiness and that equality are to be gained entirely by man in the body: he is not to suffer any least remnant of the subjection to the troubled lower nature to remain in the idea that the perfect release will come by a putting off of the body; a perfect spiritual freedom is to be won here upon earth and possessed and enjoyed in the human life.

CWSA 19 · Essays on the Gita · p. 236

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