From the above three stanzas it becomes clear that, according to Krishna, none of the usual fields of joy and happiness are visited by the man of perfection. Neither the warmth of flesh, nor the thrills of emotions and the ecstasies of thinking are available for him. Renouncing them all and conquering both love and hatred, the Yogi, in sheer transcendence, attains a realm of bliss, and Krishna declares that such a man alone can be said to be really happy.
It becomes very difficult to believe that a man in that condition would feel any happiness at all. All instruments of happiness have been rejected by him. There is no more any field for him to gain joy or satisfaction. Renouncing all food one cannot have any joy of eating.
Again, it is against the very logic and rhythm of life to say that man will be satisfied by a mere emptiness, a dark cave of total negation. Every living creature roams about in all its available fields of activity seeking to gain and achieve a greater fulfilment of joy. Even the state of “complete absence of pain” — though it is a platform of relief — is not the summit where an individual will feel contented and fully satisfied.
Under the above circumstances, it will be mere exaggeration to believe Krishna’s assertion in the previous three stanzas. To avoid such a serious misunderstanding among the students, the Lord is here trying to find out for us the positive glow of assured Divinity when the ego rediscovers itself to be the Self as it renounces all its delusory preoccupations with the false and the fleeting. The substantial and definite experience of solid bliss enjoyed and lived by the Self, in the Self, as the Self, is indicated here in this stanza.
The seeker, in his detachment, not only withdraws himself from the world-of-objects outside, but also discovers in himself an ampler sense of bliss and security. This inward joy is not a rare flickering flash, but a constantly experienced factor. Such a well-developed seeker striving constantly on the path comes to discover a field of fruitful ‘entertainment’ and engaging ‘recreation’ in the brilliant light of joyous satisfaction within himself.
To him his entire within is flooded with the Light of Pure Consciousness. His heart is thereafter alit with the Glow Divine.
Such an individual — who has withdrawn himself completely within, where he has learnt to enter at will and court and live in It — is the one who has come to KNOW Brahman. In his realization of the Infinite he has come to experience the
Bliss of Brahman, the smokeless shrine of Truth.
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