Chapter 2 Overview
Verse 2.71
विहाय कामान्यः सर्वान्पुमांश्चरति निःस्पृहः। निर्ममो निरहंकारः स शांतिमधिगच्छति।।2.71।।
vihāya kāmān yaḥ sarvān pumānśh charati niḥspṛihaḥ nirmamo nirahankāraḥ sa śhāntim adhigachchhati
Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 2, Verse 71
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Sanskrit to English Translation
Translator:
That person attains peace who, abandoning all desires, moves about without longing, without the sense of ownership, and without egoism.
A Reading - Rantideb
Why: moving through the world without longing, without the sense of 'mine,' without ego, is as close as this chapter comes to a working definition of peace, an absence of friction rather than an achievement.
In life: a lot of our daily tension comes from defending what we consider ours, opinions, possessions, status.
Teaching: notice where you're generating friction by defending something that doesn't actually need defending, and practice loosening that grip specifically.
vihāyagiving up
kāmānmaterial desires
yaḥwho
sarvānall
pumāna person
charatilives
niḥspṛihaḥfree from hankering
nirmamaḥwithout a sense of proprietorship
nirahankāraḥwithout egoism
saḥthat person
śhāntimperfect peace
adhigachchhatiattains
Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)
Author:
2.71 विहाय abandoning? कामान् desires? यः that? सर्वान् all? पुमान् man? चरति moves about? निःस्पृहः free from longing? निर्ममः devoid of mineness? निरहंकारः without egoism? सः he? शान्तिम् to peace? अधिगच्छति attains.Commentary That man who lives destitute of longing? abandoning all desires? without the senses of I and mine? who is satisfied with the bare necessities of life? who does not care even for those bare necessities of life? who has no attachment even for the bare necessities of life? attains Moksha or eternal peace. (Cf.II.55).