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Verse 2·59

Sense attractions create powerful attachment

TopicsIndriya — The SensesSaṅga — Attachment & BondageKarma Yoga — Path of ActionTeaching arc · Portrait of Sthitaprajña

Verse

विषया विनिवर्तन्ते निराहारस्य देहिनः ।रसवर्जं रसोऽप्यस्य परं दृष्ट्वा निवर्तते ॥

If one abstains from food, the objects of sense cease to affect, but the affection itself of the sense, the rasa, remains; the rasa also ceases when the Supreme is seen.

Gītā 2·59

From The Experiential Architecture · After Sri Aurobindo’s Essays on the Gita · incarnateword.in