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विषया विनिवर्तन्ते निराहारस्य देहिनः। रसवर्जं रसोऽप्यस्य परं दृष्ट्वा निवर्तते।।2.59।।

viṣhayā vinivartante nirāhārasya dehinaḥ rasa-varjaṁ raso ’pyasya paraṁ dṛiṣhṭvā nivartate

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 2, Verse 59
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
The objects of the senses turn away from the abstinent man, leaving the longing behind; but his longing also turns away upon seeing the Supreme.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: this verse names something psychologically exact, the object of craving can disappear while the taste for it lingers.

In life: quitting a habit rarely removes the craving immediately, the object is gone but the appetite outlives it for a while.

Teaching: expect the craving to outlast the removal of whatever you're giving up, and don't mistake that lingering pull for proof you've failed.

viṣhayāḥobjects for senses
vinivartanterestrain
nirāhārasyapracticing self restraint
dehinaḥfor the embodied
rasa-varjamcessation of taste
rasaḥtaste
apihowever
asyaperson’s
paramthe Supreme
dṛiṣhṭvāon realization
nivartateceases to be

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
2.59 विषयाः the objects of senses? विनिवर्तन्ते turn away? निराहारस्य abstinent? देहिनः of the man? रसवर्जम् leaving the longing? रसः loving (taste)? अपि even? अस्य of his? परम् the Supreme? दृष्ट्वा having seen? निवर्तते turns away.Commentary Knowledge of the Self alone can destroy in toto the subtle Vasanas (latent tendencies) and all the subtle desires? all subtle attachments and even the longing for objects. By practising severe austerities? by abandoning the sensual objects? the objects of the senses may turn away from the ascetic but the relish or taste or longing for the objects will still remain.