Sanskrit · Devanagari
विषया विनिवर्तन्ते निराहारस्य देहिनः। रसवर्जं रसोऽप्यस्य परं दृष्ट्वा निवर्तते ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
viṣayā vinivartante nirāhārasya dehinaḥ rasavarjaṃ raso.apyasya paraṃ dṛṣṭvā nivartate
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882Objects of sense draw back from a person who is abstinent not so the taste (for those objects). But even the taste departs from him, when he has seen the Supreme.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।2.59।। यद्यपि विषयाः विषयोपलक्षितानि विषयशब्दवाच्यानि इन्द्रियाणि निराहारस्य अनाह्रियमाणविषयस्य कष्टे तपसि स्थितस्य मूर्खस्यापि विनिवर्तन्ते देहिनो देहवतः रसवर्जं रसो रागो विषयेषु यः तं वर्जयित्वा। रसशब्दो रागे प्रसिद्धः स्वरसेन प्रवृत्तः रसिकः रसज्ञः इत्यादिदर्शनात्। सोऽपि रसो रञ्जनारूपः सूक्ष्मः अस्य यतेः परं परमार्थतत्त्वं ब्रह्म दृष्ट्वा उपलभ्य अहमेव तत् इति वर्तमानस्य निवर्तते निर्बीजं विषयविज्ञानं संपद्यते इत्यर्थः। न असति सम्यग्दर्शने रसस्य उच्छेदः। तस्मात् सम्यग्दर्शनात्मिकायाः प्रज्ञायाः स्थैर्यं कर्तव्यमित्यभिप्रायः।।सम्यग्दर्शनलक्षणप्रज्ञास्थैर्यं चिकीर्षता आदौ इन्द्रियाणि स्ववशे स्थापयितव्यानि यस्मात्तदनवस्थापने दोषमाह
baf6377e8f54…Rāmānuja
2.59 The sense objects are the food of the senses. From the abstinent embodied being, i.e., from one who has withdrawn his senses from objects, these sense-objects, being rejected by him, turn away, but not the relish for them. Relish means hankering. The meaning is that the hankering for the sense-objects does not go away by abstinence alone. But even this hankering will go away, when one sees that the essential nature of the self is superior to the sense-objects and that the realisation of this self gives greater happiness than the enjoyment of sense-objects.
a477bb22b9f2…Swami Sivananda
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.
eef71d97a8df…These supplied texts come from the pinned VedicScriptures dataset under GPL-3.0 and await independent alignment review.