Sanskrit · Devanagari
शक्नोतीहैव यः सोढुं प्राक्शरीरविमोक्षणात्। कामक्रोधोद्भवं वेगं स युक्तः स सुखी नरः ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
śaknotīhaiva yaḥ soḍhuṃ prākśarīravimokṣaṇāt kāmakrodhodbhavaṃ vegaṃ sa yuktaḥ sa sukhī naraḥ
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Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882He who even in this world before his release from the body is able to bear the agitations produced from desire and wrath is a devoted man he is a happy man.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।5.23।। शक्नोति उत्सहते इहैव जीवन्नेव यः सोढुं प्रसहितुं प्राक् पूर्वं शरीरविमोक्षणात् आ मरणात् इत्यर्थः। मरणसीमाकरणं जीवतोऽवश्यंभावि हि कामक्रोधोद्भवो वेगः अनन्तनिमित्तवान् हि सः इति यावत् मरणं तावत् न विश्रम्भणीय इत्यर्थः। कामः इन्द्रियगोचरप्राप्ते इष्टे विषये श्रूयमाणे स्मर्यमाणे वा अनुभूते सुखहेतौ या गर्धिः तृष्णा स कामः क्रोधश्च आत्मनः प्रतिकूलेषु दुःखहेतुषु दृश्यमानेषु श्रूयमाणेषु स्मर्यमाणेषु वा यो द्वेषः सः क्रोधः तौ कामक्रोधौ उद्भवो यस्य वेगस्य सः कामक्रोधोद्भवः वेगः। रोमाञ्चनप्रहृष्टनेत्रवदनादिलिङ्गः अन्तःकरणप्रक्षोभरूपः कामोद्भवो वेगः गात्रप्रकम्पप्रस्वेदसंदष्टोष्ठपुटरक्तनेत्रादिलिङ्गः क्रोधोद्भवो वेगः तं कामक्रोधोद्भवं वेगं यः उत्सहते प्रसहते सोढुं प्रसहितुम् सः युक्तः योगी सुखी च इह लोके नरः।।कथंभूतश्च ब्रह्मणि स्थितः ब्रह्म प्राप्नोति इति आह भगवान्
3f42ecb04cd3…Rāmānuja
5.23 When a man is able to withstand, i.e., to control the impulses of emotions like desire and anger by his longing for the experience of self, he is released 'here itself from the body,' i.e., even during the state when he is practising the means for release, he gains the capacity for experiencing the self. But he becomes blessed by the experience and gets immersed in the bliss of the self only after the fall of the body (at the end of his Prarabdha or operative Karma). [The implication is that in this system there is no Jivan-Mukti or complete liberation even when the body is alive. Only the state of Sthita-prajna or of 'one of steady wisdom' can be attained by an embodied Jiva.]
33000ad29f39…Swami Sivananda
5.23 शक्नोति is able? इह here (in this world)? एव even? यः who? सोढुम् to withstand? प्राक् before? शरीरविमोक्षणात् liberation from the body? कामक्रोधोद्भवम् born out of desire and anger? वेगम् the impulse? सः he? युक्तः united? सः he? सुखी happy? नरः man.Commentary Yukta means harmonised or steadfast in Yoga or selfabiding.Desire and anger are powerful enemies of peace. It is very difficult to annihilate them. You will have to make very strong efforts to destroy these enemies.When the word Kama (desire) is used in a general sense it includes all sorts of desires. It means lust in a special sense.While still here means while yet living. The impulse of desire is the agitation of the mind which is indicated by hairs standing on end and cheerful face. The impulse of anger is agitation of the mind which is indicated by fiery eyes? perspiration? biting of the lips and trembling of the body. In this verse you will clearly understand that he who has controlled desire and anger is the most happy man in this world? nor he who has immense wealth? a beautiful wife and beautiful children. Therefore you must try your level best to eradicate desire and anger? the dreadful enemies of eternal bliss.Kama (desire) is longing for a pleasant and agreeable object which gives pleasure and which is seen? heard of? or remembered. Anger is aversion towards an unpleasant and disagreeable object which gives pain and which is seen? heard or? or remembered.A Yogi controls the impulse born of desire and anger? destroyes the currents of likes and dislikes,and attains to eanimity of the mind? by resting in the innermost Self? and so he is very happy.(Cf.VI.18)
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