ārohatyeva viṣayāñchrayaṁstāṁstu parityajet ||2||
Wonderful is the way of the mind as regards enjoyment of the world: while renouncing it enjoys; while enjoying it renounces.
Exposition by Swami Lakshman joo: Here is an unique and wonderful attitude towards the mind. If you get attached with the objective world you are, in fact, detached. If you get detached from the objective world, you become attached to it. If you renounce this world and go for meditation in the cave of a dense forest you think of what you have abandoned - a box, the bedroom, a towel or a transistor. This way you have actually not renounced. You are holding those things. In fact, by abandoning, nothing will happen. But by enjoying everything will happen. Therefore, by enjoying you will remain detached because you will not think of the otherwise renounced things you possessed. Traces will vanish while enjoying. Being detached will entangle you because traces of attachment remain there.
This is Yoga of Knowledge
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kiṁ nāma tasya kurvanti krodhādyāścittavibhramāḥ ||3||
That wealth, woman and one's body,
Are quite different from the Self,
Is never attacked
By a fit of anger, irritation and the like,
Disturbers of the mind
Exposition: You have earned a bundle of currency notes which is lying on your table. Think at that moment that it is not yours. Then you will not be sad or worried even if it is destroyed by your son, wasted by your wife or is somehow lost. In this manner think about all your animate or inanimate possessions. No wrath or loss of temper will be experienced by you. This way you must live unattached in this world.
This is the Yoga of Action.
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