समो भूत्वा समत्वं योग उच्यते .....

योगस्थः कुरु कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा धनञ्जय
सिध्यसिध्योः समो भूत्वा समत्वं  उच्यते । । ……… २:४८

हे धनञ्जय ! तू आसक्तिको  त्यागकर तथा सिद्धि और असिद्धि में समान बुध्दि वाला होकर योगमे स्तिथ हुआ कर्तव्यकर्मों को कर , समत्व ही योग कहलाता है।

Be steadfast in yoga, O Arjuna. Perform your duty and abandon all attachment to success or failure. Such evenness of mind is called yoga

Those who wanted to learn yoga should read this sloka several times and understand it better before joining any yoga classes so that one would know at least what to attain through it, most of the people think  yoga means breathing exercise which can keep their body fit. Whole gyana told by the Bhagvan krishna  to arjuna is that this body is अनित्यम , अशस्वतो , but utilize this body for doing Dharma ,To know that, higher knowledge, know that नित्यं  which is seated in this body. 

Hence Practice equanimity in both the situations whether you mastered some thing or you failed drastically(सिद्धि - असिद्धि ) be calm continue do your duties believing the fruits as milestones, instill faith in lord, until finally this individual consciousness(जीव ) meets universal consciousness(ब्रह्म ).

commentaries of various saints

Yoga is the science of the individual consciousness attaining communion with the Ultimate Consciousness. 

  Being established by this yoga perform actions relinquishing attachment, motivation for rewards and depend solely upon the mercy of the Supreme Lord in all one's activities. Totally unconcerned about success or failure, attainment or non-attainment resultant surrender in righteousness all actions as an offering unto the Supreme Lord. This is the eternal path called yoga by the wise as it consists of fixed concentration of the mind. Yoga, equanimity is the methodology encouraged. Relinquishing desire and attachment to the rewards of actions while steadfastly remaining equipoise in either success or failure. This verily is what is meant by equanimity.The meaning of the word sangam is attachment. Attachment to what? The rewards of one's fruitive actions.

Hence What should one do? Lord Krishna states here to remain balanced and equipoised. Discard the mentality of being attached. Be balanced in either victory or defeat and perform your duties.कर्माणि  refers to duties the plural usage of duties indicates various obligatory and occasional duties; Thus Yoga is explained by Lord Krishna Himself as being in the state of equanimity. 

 Actions performed with fruitive motivations (Intentions ) are far inferior to actions performed as a matter of duty.when the mind of those whose actions are performed as a matter of duty are not disturbed or unbalanced by delusions of rewards gained or lost. The activities performed in spiritual intelligence removes all suffering in the world and leads to liberation from the material existence. Contrarily activities performed for the acquisition of rewards assuredly results in suffering and affliction in the material existence.फल-हेत्वा Phala-hetavah are those who sole motivation is dictated be the prospects of reward. It should be understood that such living entities are krpanah or pitiable due to the fact but acting in this way they are imprisoned in the material existence unable to attain their spiritual nature.

Definition of EQUANIMITY

1:  Evenness of mind especially under stress (nothing could disturb his equanimity)

2:  Right disposition :  balance

Special posting on Srimadbhagvad gita- 25

यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत ।
अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम् ॥४-७॥

परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम् ।
धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे ॥४-८॥


Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligious--at that time I descend Myself.
In order to deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I advent Myself millennium after millennium.4:7



कर्मण्ये वाधिकारस्ते म फलेषु कदाचना
कर्मफलेह्तुर भुरमा ते संगोस्त्वकर्मानी॥ ................च २, ४७


You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself to be the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty.............2:47

These two verses you might be seen lot of places in India  people quoting  misquoting  promoting etc whatever, my sole intention to bring the important verses of srimad bhagvad gita to generate curiosity in their own self and see beyond these two above verses.
Bhagvad gita is very much relevant in modern society in fact whatever be the society till the humans survive it is useful, but it should be read in a way that we can apply the principle in our daily life, not just sake of ritual or dogmas, in fact it is letter to all civilization by lord Krishna to give him answer, and if we don't reply by our actions how can he know what we have done. Gita is certainly much more than about two verses.
The entire Gita is important part of life, it should be read and practiced with proper understanding developed with competent teacher.My little effort is to bring curiosity to every one to read and apply.

special verse:

यं यं वापि स्मरन्भावं त्यजत्यन्ते कलेवरम्। तं तमेवैति कौन्तेय सदा तद्भावभावितः॥८- ६॥

प्राणी जो भी स्मरन करते हुऐ अपनी देह त्यागता है, वह उसी को प्राप्त करता है हे कौन्तेय, सदा उन्हीं भावों में रहने के कारण।..................................8:6


Whatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, that state he will attain without fail..............................8:6

Kumara Vaisnava Sampradaya: Kesava Kasmiri's Commentary

Not only by thinking of Lord Krishna alone does one attain His eternal nature; but whatever one thinks at the moment of death one becomes without fail. This is being stated with the words (yam yam) meaning whatever. Whatever one is thinking at the last moment of death will transport one to become the very object or conception one contemplated while dying. The reason Lord Krishna also gives with the words sada tad-bhava- bhavitah meaning due to being completely absorbed in such contemplation the powerful prominence of the final thought and image infuses itself upon the consciousness determining their next birth.

Finally , whatever state he is being when he leave this body at point of death that state of mind only he would continue to be in, this verse can be read in other way too what ever state of mind he is composed today is the result of the past life's conclusive state of mind..!!!, so it means that this cycle would repeat again if we are unable to detach yourself from the state of mind at the time of death, which is certain expect the timing. as we don't know the timing is it not that what ever state of mind i have today can be carry forwarded. hence when i discovered this reality, does it not mean that i should possess such a state of mind where i should not be attached to karma yet i do the action part. does it not mean that i should do this all times, morning, day, mid-day evening and night...should i not be aware of the lord all the times...as i dont know when the death will become reality.

When this is so much true than why we set a time for doing puja in the morning or lighting a lamp in the evening , as if its a duty rest of the time we are very much dipped our-self in the world.

So here what i conclude is we must practice aware full living always..all times..that is mindful living. stated by Gautama Buddha. Lord should be all times part of life, not just we go to certain place where we call we are doing prayer or puja/aarti and allow God to sit there and we do our work as our mind says(God cant be just at one place one should follow him omnipresent) .The moment we begin to understand that we are not only the body we are a soul (individual soul or consciousness), we begin to understand the mind and its mechanism, and by the grace of sat guru the individual ego vanishes , and the we meet the ultimate consciousness the lord.

How come we keep our mindset on lord at final stages when we never met him while living? how can we meet him after death when we could never know him while living which is been allotted us to with mechanism to upgrade ourselves and we just wasted it with entertainment?!!! so being in lord is not affair of Thursday or Sunday...its every day every moment..all times..

Until we meet our lord...the conflict continues..we continue to seek new new things, we continue to be unstable and unhappy even after most of our desires (material) been fulfilled in our life. we remain still unhappy. Every one shiould strive to make a better tommorow than today. It would only possible if our Today is better than yestarday, we can wake up with better tommorow ,so its now to wake up and take charge to a turn around cling to make ourselves better. The gist of Gita to my understanding is "nishkam karma" can also be said as Total work without regret.

 I concluded these postings on Srimad Bhagvad gita, the mistakes which  i might have done  while writing or explaining, pardon me for that am still a learner and sailing in the same boat as you are in, while writing this, my intent is to bring curiosity to know the reality of life, and stop ourselves becoming slaves of mob mentality. stop seeing others for progress, see yourself. Life is not a race; its just a correction of our being, which we did in past stored as experiences, which lead to  our perception and finally become our choice.

some well known personalities what they said about  Srimad Bhagvad-gita


Albert Einstein
When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.

Mahatma Gandhi
The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.

Sri Aurobindo
The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and a new meaning for every civilization.

Carl Jung
The idea that man is like unto an inverted tree seems to have been current in by gone ages. The link with Vedic conceptions is provided by Plato in his Timaeus in which it states..." behold we are not an earthly but a heavenly plant." This correlation can be discerned by what Krishna expresses in chapter 15 of  Bhagavad-Gita.

Swami Vivekananda
The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught  by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita.


 Sri Paramahamsa Yogananda
The Bhagavad-Gita is where God Himself talks to His devotee Arjuna. 

Adi Guru Sankaracharya
From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-Gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-Gita is the manifest quintessence of all the teachings of the Vedic scriptures. 



Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Bhagavad-Gita  is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity and at the same time  the attributes of the Upanisadic absolute. 



Dr. Albert Schweizer
The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.



Aldous Huxley
The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.

Sri Ramanujacharya
The Bhagavad-Gita  was spoken by Lord Krishna to reveal the science of devotion to God which is the essence of all spiritual knowledge. The Supreme Lord Krishnas primary purpose for descending and incarnating is relieve the world of any demoniac and negative, undesirable influences that are opposed to spiritual developement, yet simultaneously it is His  incomparable intention to be perpetually within reach of all humanity.

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu
Advise everyone to follow the instructions of  Srimad Bhagavad-Gita as spoken by  Lord Krishna. In this way authorised by Me become a spiritual master and redeem this world.


Prayers..

Sarve’tra sukhinah santu
Sarve santu niramayah
Sarve bhadrani pashyantu
Maa kaschit dukhamapnuyat

May everyone in the world be happy.
May everyone be healthy.
May all experience what is good.
May there be no suffering.



Lokha, Samasta Sukino, Bhavantu ......................(X3)
Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti-e

May all beings, in all worlds be blessed with freedom, health and happiness
Om, we invoke the Divine Primordial Source Energy to infuse us with
Peace in all bodies, Peace in all minds, Peace in all souls.

om tat sat

Important verse of Srimad Bhagvadgita-24

The Three Modes Of Material Nature.

Material nature consists of the three modes--goodness, passion and ignorance. When the living entity comes in contact with nature, he becomes conditioned by these modes.....14:5



o mighty armed one, the qualities of goodness, passion and ignorance thus produced by the material energy enslaves (वशीभूत करना) the immutable ( अपरिवर्तनशील), consciousness of the self within the body...14: 5

हे अर्जुन! सतोगुण,रजोगुण,और तमोगुण -ये प्रकृति से उत्पन्न तीनो गुण अविनाशी जीवात्माको शरीर में बंधते है।

Wonderful commetary given by Sri kesava kashmiri vaishnava sampradaya..states like this..




Lord Krishna refutes the impersonalistic sankhya philosophy which negates the existence of the Supreme Lord by propounding the combination and essential dependence of the ksetra or field of activity with the ksetra-jna or the knower of the field of activity. He delineates( वर्णन करना) all aspects such as what the qualities are. How they can be recognized. How they keep the jivas or embodied beings in bondage and how this is established and enforced by contact and attraction to sense objects and material nature. He states that the three gunas or qualities of sattva, rajas and tamas or goodness, passion and ignorance respectively are not the actual forms of objects seen, heard, tasted, smelled or touched but are the status of the inherent attributes contained as. Thus prakriti or the material substratum pervading physical existence is defined as the resting place where the three gunas are equipoise and arise from. This same prakriti when agitated by the Supreme Lord's onslaught of time transforms into mahat or cosmic intelligence and firmly becomes bonded with the dualities such as pleasure and pain, happiness and distress, etc. But then one may question why it is stated in chapter 2, verse 30 that the atma or immortal soul can never be destroyed. Anticipating such a query Lord Krishna states the words dehinam avyayam meaning the immutable spirit soul denoting that although the atma resides in the physical body it is immutable and never changes it quality of eternality. So the gunas cause the atma to be imprisoned by the physical body due to its attachment to the body and its attraction to the senses and its desire for sense objects. The Visnu Purana states: The Supreme Lord enters by His own will with equipoise into mutable matter and immutable spirit, activating both at the time of creation. O sage He is both the activator and the activated. By way of contraction and expansion He abides equipoise within prakriti as the ksetrajna from whence the three gunas arise which control the ksetra. This irrevocably manifests at the commencement of creation. So in conclusion the three gunas are the modified essence of prakriti which is generated by the mahat unto all material beings and planets such as Earth and others.

NOTE: All 3 gunas also comes under bondage. one should go beyond that.

Important Verse of Srimad Bhagvad gita -23

Nature, the Enjoy-er, and Consciousness
or individual and ultimate consciousness.

The five great elements, false ego, intelligence, the unmanifested, the ten senses, the mind, the five sense objects, desire, hatred, happiness, distress, the aggregate, the life symptoms, and convictions--all these are considered, in summary, to be the field of activities and its interactions......Chapter 13, Verse 6-7. 



Humility, pridelessness, nonviolence, tolerance, simplicity, approaching a bona fide spiritual master, cleanliness, steadiness and self-control; renunciation of the objects of sense gratification, absence of false ego, the perception of the evil of birth, death, old age and disease; nonattachment to children, wife, home and the rest, and even-mindedness amid pleasant and unpleasant events; constant and unalloyed devotion to Me, resorting to solitary places, detachment from the general mass of people; accepting the importance of self-realization, and philosophical search for the Absolute Truth--all these I thus declare to be knowledge, and what is contrary to these is ignorance.....Chapter 13, Verse 8-12. 




I shall now explain the knowable, knowing which you will taste the eternal. This is beginningless, and it is subordinate to Me. It is called Brahman, the spirit, and it lies beyond the cause and effect of this material world.........chapter 13, Verse 13. 



Everywhere are His hands and legs, His eyes and faces, and He hears everything. In this way the Supersoul exists....Chapter 13, Verse 14. 


The Supersoul is the original source of all senses, yet He is without senses. He is unattached, although He is the maintainer of all living beings. He transcends the modes of nature, and at the same time He is the master of all modes of material nature.......Chapter 13, Verse 15. .


The Supreme Truth exists both internally and externally, in the moving and nonmoving. He is beyond the power of the material senses to see or to know. Although far, far away, He is also near to all...........Chapter 13, Verse 16. 

Chapter 13, Verse 17. 
Although the Supersoul appears to be divided, He is never divided. He is situated as one. Although He is the maintainer of every living entity, it is to be understood that He devours and develops all.


Chapter 13, Verse 24. 
One who understands this philosophy concerning material nature, the living entity and the interaction of the modes of nature is sure to attain liberation. He will not take birth here again, regardless of his present position.



O chief of the Bharatas, whatever you see in existence, both moving and unmoving, is only the combination of the field of activities and the knower of the field......Chapter 13, Verse 27.



One who sees the Supersoul in every living being and equal everywhere does not degrade himself by his mind. Thus he approaches the transcendental destination...
Chapter 13, Verse 29. 

Impiortant Verse of Srimad Bhagvadgita -22

This chapter is all about : The infinite Glories of the Ultimate Truth

spiritual intelligence, knowledge, freedom from false perception, compassion, truthfulness, control of the sense, control of the mind, happiness, unhappiness, birth, death,fear and fearlessness, nonviolence, equanimity, contentment, austerity, charity, fame , infamy;all these varieagated diverse qualities of all living entities originated from ME ALONE.......Chapter 10, Verse 4-5. 

निश्चय करने के शक्ति , यथार्त ज्ञान , असम्मूद्द्ता ,क्षमा , सत्य ,इन्द्रियों,का वशमे करना, मनका निग्रह तथा सुख-दुःख ,उत्पत्ति -प्रलय  और भय-अभय तथा अहिंसा , समता , संतोष ,ताप,दान ,कीर्ति  और अपकीर्ति -ऐसे ये प्राणियों के नाना प्रकार के भाव मुझसे ही होते है।.Chapter 10, Verse 4-5.

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out of compassion for them, I situated within the heart, certainly destroy the darkness born of ignorance with radiant light of knowledge..........  Chapter 10, Verse 11. 

हे अर्जुन ! उनके ऊपर अनुग्रह करनेके लिए उनके अन्तःकर्न्मे स्तिथ हुआ मई स्वयं ही उनके अज्ञानजनित अन्धकार को प्रकाशमय तत्व्ग्यांरूप दीपक के  द्वारा नष्ट  कर देता हूँ।...........Chapter 10, Verse 11. 

Important Verse of Srimad Bhagvad gita -21

The most confidential  knowledge of Ultimate truth: chapter- 9

Presiding over my external potency the material energy. I generate again and again all these innumerable living entities;inaccordance to the implications of thier material natures.....9:5

अपनी  प्रकृति  को अंगीकार करके स्वाभाव के बलसे परतंत्र हुए इस सम्पूर्ण भूत समुदाय को बार बार उनके कर्मो के अनुसार रचता हूँ ।। 9:5

Always chanting My glories, endeavoring with great determination, bowing down before Me, these great souls perpetually worship Me with devotion........9:14

Always eulogizing ( स्तुति करना ) my divine glories, resolutely(  अटल ,कृतसंकल्प)endeavoring (प्रयत्न करना)with unfailing determination and humbly offering obeisances;(सम्मान (the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person) desires for an eternal relationship worship Me in loving devotion....9:14

वे दृढ निश्चय्वाले  भक्त जन निरंतर मेरे नाम और गुणों का कीर्तन करते हुए तथा मेरी प्राप्ति के लिए यत्न करते हुए और मुझको बार बार प्रणाम करते हुए सदा मेरे ध्यान में यक्त होकर अनन्य प्रेम से मेरी उपासना करते है।Chapter 9, Verse 14



I am the enjoyed and Ultimate master of all performance of sacrifice; but they do not know ME in reality; consequently they revolve in the cycle of rebirth......Chapter 9, Verse 24. 

क्योंकि सम्पूर्ण यज्ञों का भोक्ता और स्वामी " मै " ही हूँ ; परन्तु वे मुझ परमेश्वर को तत्त्व से नहीं जानते ,इसीसे गिरते है अर्थात पुनर्जन्म को प्राप्त होते है।Chapter 9, Verse 24.

Important verse of Srimad Bhagvadgita -20

Chapter 8, Verse 4. 

Perishable objects are of the phenomenal existence; the omnipresent transcendental personality is the underlying foundation of all the demigods and I within the body certainly am the Lord of all sacrificies, O best of beings..

उत्पत्ती  -विनाश  धर्म  वाले  सब  पदार्थ   अधिभूत  है  , हिरन्य  पुरुष  अधिदैव  है  औ र हे  देहधारियो में  श्रेष्ट  अर्जुन!  इस  शरीरमे   वासुदेव   ही  अंतर्यामी   रूप  से   अधियज्ञ   हूँ ।



Chapter 8, Verse 27. 
O Arjuna, coming to know about these two paths, anyone perfecting the science of uniting the individual consciousness with the Supreme Consciousness is never deluded; therefore O Arjuna always be engaged in the science of uniting the individual consciousness with the Ultimate Consciousness.


हे पार्थ ! इस प्रकार इन दोनों मार्गोंको तत्त्व से जान कर कोई भी योगी मोहित नहीं होता ।
इस कारण हे अर्जुन! तू सब काल में सम बुद्धिरूप योग से युक्त हो अर्थात निरंतर मेरी प्राप्ति के लिए साधन करनेवाला हो ।


Chapter 8, Verse 28. 

whatever the meritorious rewards indicated in the Vedic scriptures by ritualistic sacrifices, rigours asceticism or by philanthropic charity;one perfected in the science of uniting the individual consciousness with the Supreme consciousness transcends them all and achieves the Supreme, primordial abode.

योगी पुरुष इस रहस्य को तत्वसे जानकार वेदों को पढ़नेमे तथा यज्ञ , तप और दानादि करने में जो पुण्य -फल  है , उस सबको  निसंदेह उलंघन कर जाता है और सनातन परमपद को प्राप्त होता है।

Important verse of Srimad Bhagvadgita -19

The Supreme Lord said, The indestructible, transcendental living entity is called Brahman, and his eternal nature is called the self. Action pertaining to the development of these material bodies is called karma, or fruitive activities.....8:3

In answer to these questions the Supreme Lord Krishna replies in three verses. He answers three of the questions with the words a-ksaram paramam meaning the supreme indestructible reality which is imperishable and never is destroyed and is the essence in totality of all atmas or souls of all embodied beings.  So here akarsam refers to the individual atma and when matter merges with it then it becomes embodied and is referred to as adhyatma which is a combination of matter, senses, intelligence and subtle elements surrounding enveloping the atma. Both the atma and matter should be well comprehended by those aspirants for moksa or liberation from material existence in order to know what in life should be accepted and what in life should be rejected. Also one should be clear as to the discharge of one's daily duties and yagna or worship in propitiation and whether such propitiation should be offered to demigods or exclusively to the Supreme Lord. All actions of various types offered to anything other than the Supreme Lord have a reaction attached to them and are known as karma or reactions to actions and by these actions all types of movable and immovable beings are coming into existence. said by  kesava kasmiri

(The Brhadaranyaka Upanisad IV.V.XIV states that the atma is eternal and verily indestructible. The jiva or embodied being is in a perpetual state of bondage and is explained in the Subala Upanisad as such: The unmanifest descends into the embodied soul and the embodied soul sinks into the darkness of nescience. But in this verse the word paramam meaning supreme qualifies the term aksaram and so its imperishable nature refers to the atma not associated with or disconnected from primordial matter and as such the only perception manifesting is realisation of the atma and one becomes omniscient. Although in scriptural passages such as Brhadaranyaka Upanisad IV.IV.XXII stating O`Garga the brahman or spirirtual substratum pervading all existence is verily indestructible. In this case it refers to the ultimate reality; but not here because Lord Krishna Himself will speak later in chapter 15, verse 16 and 17of this indestructible as being different from the two types of created beings those who are perishable and those who are imperishable as He is exalted and being distinctly different from both is designated as the Supreme Being and Supreme Personality.)

Important verse of Srimad bhagvad gita -18

I am never manifest to the foolish and unintelligent. For them I am covered by My eternal creative potency [yoga-maya]; and so the deluded world knows Me not, who am unborn and infallible....7:25





Now Lord Krishna explains the cause of their ignorance about Himself. It is because He only manifests Himself in and through the consciousness of His devotees exclusively and not to others

Why are not all beings able to acquire knowledge about the Supreme Lord ?  The Supreme Lord Krishna whose potencies are beyond the realm of the mind and the senses and who is the sole objective of meditation by the enlightened yogis. For others He is imperceptibly veiled by His mysterious and intrepid, internal energy known as yogamaya. Yoga means uniting with, maya is illusory impressions superimposed upon the consciousness, by this combination a mysterious power arises which is transcendant to material nature and has the potency at any time to make the impossible, possible or the possible, impossible or even have them both manifesting simultaneously. The ignorant are covered by this maya and hence unaware of Lord Krishna's supreme position. Thus being oblivious to His powers, glories, qualities and attributes the ignorant are unable to have communion with Him and receive His grace.
Why are not all beings able to acquire knowledge about Him?
Lord Krishna speaks naham prakasah sarvasya meaning He is not revealed to everyone. He is samavrtah or concealed. He allows the ignorant who are bereft of faith be oblivious of His divine glory and His purely spiritual form which is endowed with qualities and attributes that are completely transcendental to prakriti or the material substatum pervading all worldly objects in the physical existence. His supernatural powers and lilas or phenomenal pastimes are not known, heard or witnessed by all. Only those who are exclusively devoted to Lord  are aware of His power and majesty. As the Supreme Lord Himself spoke to Narada Muni that: One by one, then two by two, then in a group of three, great sages desired to see the form of the Supreme Lord ; but they were unable to, nor will they ever be able too until they have developed exclusive devotion for Him. Only by bhakti or exclusive loving devotion can the Supreme Lord  be known. Hence the ignorant, all who are not Lord 's fail to recognise Him as the Supreme Being. For He is not born as an embodied soul forced to accept a physical body like all embodied beings by the dictates of karma or reactions from previous actions. Lord  manifests Himself  by His own sweet will to perform His divine lilas or phenomenal pastimes for sport; but the people of the world merely view Him as another human being only blest to have amazing and extraordinary qualities and characteristics.


vedaham samatitani 
vartamanani carjuna 
bhavisyani ca bhutani 
mam tu veda na kascana.......7:26


O Arjuna, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, (I) know everything that has happened in the past, all that is happening in the present, and all things that are yet to come. I also know all living entities; but Me no one knows...7:26

Lord Krishna emphasises by the words mam tu veda na kascam which means that no one is able to know Him and because He is the controller of all, anywhere that He is not veiled is only by His express directive for His veiling is not for His devotees but for those who are in the clutches of maya or illusory impressions superimposed upon the mind, so that they will not be able to know Him. This He is indicating by the word vedaham meaning He knows. That He knows by His divine potency and unveiled knowledge. Although His external energy known as maya veils the mind in varying degrees of all created beings; it should clearly understood that that all living beings movable or immovable, belonging to the past, existing in the present or manifesting in the future are under His complete control and this is an example of how He is omniscient. 


NOte:  His veiling is not for His devotees but for those who are in the clutches of maya or illusory impressions superimposed upon the mind, so that they will not be able to know Him.

or it can be said परन्तु मुझको कोई भी 1) अनन्य  भक्ति  2) श्रद्धा  से जाना जासकता है . 
Hence be in bhakthi by bhajan and keep faith and walk on the path to know higher consciousness from the present level of lower consciusouness by various methods of yoga, either by karma yoga ( by doing action), ananya bhakti yoga(  getting united through form of perpetual bhakthi), gyana yoga( through the knowledge of reality) yoga means uniting .

Important verse of Srimad Bhagvadgita -17

The Blessed Lord said: O mighty-armed son of Kunti, it is undoubtedly very difficult to curb the restless mind, but it is possible by constant practice and by detachment.........6:35

Then Lord Krishna responding to Arjuna's queries concurs that without a doubt the mind is extremely difficult to control and similar to confining a cyclone in a pot; but Arjuna should shake off his trepidation and make the effort, for the mind can be brought under control by the repeated practice of meditation. One should first withdraw the mind from the influence of sense objects and then focus the mind in concentration internally on the atma or soul. By practising indifference towards sense objects, dispassion will arise in the senses and the mind will show no interest and will not gravitate to anything else other than the atma. This is accomplished by reflecting on the transient nature of anything other than the atma and contemplating on the inherent defects in such transient objectives. The vocative words maha-bahu meaning mighty armed one indicates in a general sense that only a superior person trained in such practice will meet with success whereas a normal person will not be able to. In the specific sense maha-bahu means one whose arms are mighty enough to control an enemy should be mighty enough to control the enemy knows as the turbulent mind. The particle tu meaning but denotes there should be no lethargy in effort.

The difficulty of controlling the obstinate mind,  is accepted by the Personality of Godhead. But at the same time He suggests that by practice and detachment it is possible. What is that practice? In the present age no one can observe strict rules and regulations, such as placing oneself in a sacred place, focusing the mind on the Supersoul, restraining the senses and mind, observing celibacy, remaining alone, etc. By the practice of  consciousness, however, one engages in nine types of devotional service to the Lord, Refer (नवधा भक्ति )
 Devotional engagements is hearing about LORD, like doing kirtan or bhajan This is a very powerful  method for purging the mind of all misgivings. The more one hears about Lord, the more one becomes enlightened and detached from everything that draws the mind away from Lord. By detaching the mind from activities not devoted to the Lord, one can very easily learn vairagya. Vairagya means detachment from matter and engagement of the mind in spirit.  

Important Verse of Srimad Bhagvad gita -16

For him who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends; but for one who has failed to do so, his very mind will be the greatest enemy.....6:6


अपने  द्वारा  अपना  संसार -समुद्र  से  उद्धार  कर  और  अपनेको  अधोगातिमे  न  डाले ,   क्यों की यह  मनुष्य  आप  ही  तो  अपना  मित्र  है  और  आप  ही  अपना  शत्रु है।।...6:5
जिस  जीवा त्मा द्वारा  मन  और  इन्द्रियों  सहित  जीता  हुआ  है , उस जीवात्मा तो वह आप ही मित्र है और  जिसके  द्वारा  मन  तथा  इन्द्रियों  सहित  शरीर  नहीं  जीता  गया  हो  उसके  लिए  वह  आप ही  शत्रु  के  सद्र्श  शत्रुता  में  बरता है।.........6:6

It should be clearly comprehend that attachment to worldly pleasures locks one to samsara or the endless cycle of birth and death while contrarily detachment from the infatuation of worldly pleasures frees one from samsara. So everyone should try to elevate themselves with determination by training their mind with constant practice to be unattached to sense objects. Lord Krishna is revealing the method of escaping perpetual incarceration in the material existence. The mind has the propensity to be one's dearest friend so why not utilise it to uplift oneself out of material darkness and into spiritual light. A controlled mind can accomplish so many beneficial endeavours for one's wellbeing. Whereas an uncontrolled mind is one's worst enemy performing base and degrading activities leading to destruction.

Now a question may asked as to whom is the mind a friend and for whom is the mind an enemy? Lord Krishna clarifies that the mind is the friend to that person who having complete control over the physical body, the senses and the mind has conquered their lower nature. The mind is the enemy to the person who is unable to control the physical body, the senses and the mind due to not having conquered their lower nature. As is stated by the sage Parasara: Man's mentality is verily the root cause of either their liberation or their bondage. The mind obsessed with sensual pleasures is bondage whereas the mind devoid of the desire to enjoy sensual pleasures leads to moksa or liberation from material existence.

Notes: 1) once the jeeva ( individual soul)begin to develop understanding that am not the body concept and he start to believe that he is a soul, than he will surely Probe the characteristic of soul.

2) When jeeva understand the mind and its mechanism, its emotions and his inner mind than jeeva will develop Equanimity and stay away from the all dualities such as cold and heat, happiness and distress, honour and dishonour. Such persons are serene and peaceful in all situations because they are established in spiritual knowledge and get a glimpse of godhead.

3) Most important is the ignorance of self, we could not identify yourself  and due to influence of environment we continually in trap of illusion created by past experiences , but by the Grace of guru the illusion vanishes and the light shines again.we can know the true self.

Important verse of Srimad Bhagvadgita -15

Such a liberated person is not attracted to material sense pleasure or external objects but is always in trance, enjoying the pleasure within. In this way the self-realized person enjoys unlimited happiness, for he concentrates on the Supreme....5:21

An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with the material senses. O son of Kunti, such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.........5:22



Chapter 5, Verse 23. 
Before giving up this present body, if one is able to tolerate the urges of the material senses and check the force of desire and anger, he is a yogi and is happy in this world.

If a person is inclined to attachment to sensual pleasures they will never have the opportunity to experience the transcendental bliss of the realisation of the Brahman or the spiritual substratum pervading all existence. But a question may be raised what happiness can a person derive from life if they have introverted their senses and are averted to sense objects. Lord Krishna states the compound words sukham-aksayam meaning unlimited happiness is what such persons attains for with disconnection to the senses and objects of the senses a natural detachment arises which frees one from worldly desires allowing one to focus within on the eternal atma or eternal soul where one tastes boundless joy and experiences unlimited bliss.  This is the essential component that paves the way for perceiving the Brahman or spiritual substratum pervading all existence, atma tattva or realisation of the soul and moksa or liberation from the material existence and cognition of the ultimate truth of the Supreme Being.

t can be understood how a person being free from desires is no longer attached to sensual pleasures and focusing within and realising the atma or eternal soul is able to experience unlimited bliss. But the question which may be raised is how can one become unattached to the desire for sensual pleasures from the very beginning? Lord Krishna explains that all pleasures in the material world have a beginning and an end. When pleasures are first enjoyed they give an acute illusion of happiness but due to indomitable time when such pleasures come to an end as they all must they are the cause of acute misery. For this reason the spiritually intelligent who are endowed with the faculty of discriminative knowledge do not indulge in sense pleasures knowing them to be temporary and binding.

After expounding that desire and sense gratification are the sources of misery and suffering, Lord Krishna establishes that steadfast devotion to the eternal atma or soul is the source of eternal bliss. One may protest that without sensual pleasures life would have no taste. To refute the hyperbole of this mentality and to fortify the aspirants of moksa or liberation Lord Krishna strengthens the concept by the word sodhum meaning to tolerate or withstand. Withstand what? Withstand the impulses arising from kama or lust and krodha or anger. These impulses are very powerful and difficult like the strong current of a river. Kama is described as intense desire for sense objects which infatuate the mind due to increasing passion from seeing, hearing about or remembering objects of desire. Krodha is described as the modification of the mind in the form of anger caused by extreme situations of frustration in not obtaining the result of one's desires. The person who is able to tolerate this impulses and subsequently neutralise them by spiritual practices even before the end of life is a yogi or one who has perfected the science of the individual consciousness attaining communion with the ultimate consciousness. Such a being is spiritually situated and is undoubtedly joyful and content. Such persons and no others are qualified to accomplish the goal of human existence and succeed in the achievement of atma tattva or realisation of the eternal soul within all naturally created beings. One who slavishly always follows the urges of sensual pleasures, like an animal is unable to control their mind and therefore is unable to accomplish this goal.

पुरुष के लिए स्त्री और स्त्री के लिए पुरुष , और दोनों के लिए पुत्र(संतान), धन(जॉब), माकन(प्रोपर्टी) या स्वर्ग(ना ना प्रकार के पाखंड  धर्म के नाम पर ) आदि को  जो कुछ भी देखे  सुने हुए मन और इन्द्रियों के विषय है, उनमे आस्क्थी हो जाने के कारण उनको प्राप्त करने के लिए जो कुछ इच्छा होती है , उसका नाम काम है । और उसके कारण अन्थाह्कर्ण  में होने वाले नाना प्रकार के संकल्प-विकल्पओ का जो प्रवाह है , वह काम से उत्पन्न  होना वा वेग है ।

इसी प्रकार मन ,बुद्धि और इन्द्रियोंके प्रतिकूल  विषयों के पार्प्थी होने पर अथवा इष्ट प्राप्ति के इच्छा पूर्हती में बाधा उपस्थि होने पर उस स्तिथि के  कारण भूत पदार्थ  या जीवोके प्रति द्वेष भाव उत्पन्न होकर अंतःकरण में जो उत्तेजना का भाव अत है, उसका नाम  क्रोध है ।

उस  क्रोधके  कारन  होनेवाले  नाना  प्रकार  के  संकल्प-विकल्प   का  जो प्रवाह  है,  वह क्रोधसे उत्पन्न होने वाला वे  है । इन वेगो को शांतिपूर्वक सहन करनेकी अर्थान इन्हें सेहन करनेमें समर्थ होना है ।

Important verse of Srimad bhagvadgita -14

A person who neither rejoices upon achieving something pleasant nor laments upon obtaining something unpleasant, who is self-intelligent, unbewildered, and who knows the science of God, is to be understood as already situated in Transcendence........5:20

जो  पुरुष  प्रिय को  प्राप्त  हो कर  हर्षित नहीं
 और अप्रि य को  प्राप्त हो  कर उद्वि ग्न न  हो,
वह  स्तिर  बुद्धि  संश य रहित ब्र ह्मा वेत्ता  पुरुष  परब्रह्म  परमा त्मा में  एकीभाव  से  नि त्य स्तित है।



Ramanuja's Commentary

Agreeable and disagreeable situations occur in accordance to the physical body one happens to dwell in and the karma or reactions to past life actions an embodied being is subjected to which both exemplify the grave risks of material existence. A person who would seek to scale the heights of spiritual knowledge should remain equiposed at all times and not feel elation at receiving something agreeable nor feel dejection at receiving something disagreeable. How is this possible? It is possible for one who is sthira-buddhir(स्थिर बुद्धि ) meaning steadfast intelligence. Such a person plants his mind and will in the stability of the atma or soul. The word asammudho(सं मूढो ) means not subject to delusion. If one is sammudho they are inflicted with delusion in the form of confusing the stable eternal atma with the unstable temporary body. How can one escape this delusion? If a person is brahma- vid or a knower of the spiritual substratum pervading all existence from instruction and brahmani sthitah or perceiving and experiencing the spiritual substratum pervading all existence every moment. The meaning Lord Krishna is conveying is that those who receive instructions from the bonafide spiritual preceptor  shall learn the exact nature and means of attainment of the eternal atma. This is brahma-vid. Such a one through diligent and sincere application of this spiritual knowledge always remembering and honouring the spiritual preceptor who mercifully gave such knowledge. In due course of time one will achieve atma tattva or realisation of the soul and in such an elevated position one will blissfully commune internally with the eternal atma and the eternal spiritual preceptor as well and from thenceforth nothing in the external world will ever again be perceived as being agreeable or being disagreeable.

Conclusion learning: Equanimity( समवृत्ति) is essential ingredient of life, learn to be steadfast head and practice it.

Important verse of Srimad bhagvadgita -13

The steadily devoted soul(निष्काम योगी ) attains unadulterated peace (अगाध शान्ति ) because he offers the result ( सम्पूर्ण कर्म फल का त्याग करना ) of all activities to Me (lord); whereas a person who is not in union with the Divine, who is greedy for the fruits of his labor r(कर्म ), becomes entangle   (फँसजाता  है )...........5:12 

Attachment to the rewards to be gained from one's actions is the root cause for bondage to the perpetual cycle of birth and death in material existence. Lord Krishna presents this assertion with positive and negative examples. The aspirant for atma tattva or realisation of the soul who unmotivated by desires offers all actions unto the Supreme Lord attains moksa or liberation and everlasting peace. Whereas the person who performs actions never offering them to the supreme is contaminated with the blemish of selfish motives and the craving of rewards and is unable to relinquish(त्यागना) the conception of ego and proprietorship (स्वामीत्व ) thinking that they are the body and miserably failing by such mentality are bound tightly in material existence.

विशेष : 1) One's actions is the root cause for bondage

          2) Unable to leave the ego or I am the body concept

          3) Results in - unable to rewrite the perception of mind.. which is root cause  of attachment to the rewards to be gained viz; an archer eyes to shoot and he is focused on it , but as soon as he is attached to the reward for shooting bulls eye;  he is attached to the reward, and he see two goals now one  is to posses the reward other is to shoot right and he gets confused, such person never can become devotee, Thus no peace, no happiness inside.

Important verse of Srimad Bhagvadgita-12

One who works in devotion, who is a pure soul, and who controls his mind and senses, is dear to everyone, and everyone is dear to him. Though always working, such a man is never entangled.(उलझाता )...........5:7

commentary by sri kesava kashmiri:

If it is postulated (  स्वयंसिद्धि)t hat the Brahman or spiritual substratum ( आधार ) pervading all existence is omnipresent  (   सर्वव्यापी )and transcendental             ( भावातीत ) to prakriti or material nature then how is it that a person engaged in actions within prakriti possesses the same attributes(गुण)? .To answer this Lord Krishna affirms that those practicing yoga or the science of the individual consciousness attaining communion with the ultimate consciousness while being engaged in actions with a pure mind, controlled senses and body and realizing that the atma or soul exists equally within all beings is the well wisher of all beings, such a yogi having overcome the duality of activity and inertia is not bound by actions. The word yoga specifically establishes that such a person is a yogi and achieving purity treats all beings equally and thus becomes transcendental to prakriti and equal to the Brahman in its attributes. Having attained the Brahman, fully peaceful in mind, neither grieving or desiring equipoise (संतुलन), in all situations and to all beings such a one obtains devotion to the Supreme. Thus the explanation given is quite appropriate.

Important Verse of Srimad Bhagvadgita-11

In this world, there is nothing so sublime and pure as transcendental knowledge. Such knowledge is the mature fruit of all mysticism. And one who has achieved this enjoys the self within himself in due course of time....4:38


In this world nothing is as purifying as spiritual knowledge. Then why is not everyone pursuing this? Lord Krishna explains that first one must become qualified from prolonged practice of karma yoga or prescribed Vedic activities performed without desire for rewards. Then in due course of time if there is no interruption knowledge will arise leading to purity of heart after which atma tattva or soul realisation will be achieved.
And this knowledge is hidden like smoke in firewood,oil in the oil seeds and butter in the milk...there is nothing from outside to achieve the same jiva (individual consciousness) would turn into super consciousness one it is churned by suffering. All our accumulated actions ( sanchita karma) would also be wiped out from us , we wont be operation by conditioning of mind or the perception of past accumulated experiences nor we do the judgement based on the experiences accumulated as memory , The mind actions would be pure as it is..

Important verse of Srimad Bhagvadgita-10

O best of the Kuru dynasty, without sacrifice one can never live happily on this planet or in this life: what then of the next?......4:31

हे कुरुश्रेष्ठ अर्जुन ! यज्ञ से बचे हुए अमृतका अनुभव करनेवाले योगीजन सनातन पारब्रह्म परमात्मा को प्राप्त होते है । और यज्ञ न करने वाले पुरुष के लिए तो यह मनुष्यलोक  भी सुख दायक नहीं है,फिर परलोक कैसे सुखदायक  हो सकता है?......4:31

That person who does not perform yagna or offerings of worship to propitiate the Supreme Lord and who does not perform the regular and occasional duties as prescribed in the Vedic scriptures  or  station in life. Such a person derives absolutely no benefit for receiving a human existence in this world. They have wasted a very precious opportunity as a human birth is very difficult to receive and humans are the only species on the Earth with freewill and the power to reflect on the Supreme. All the goals which humanity aspires for will also allude them for without following the ordinances of the Vedic scriptures which bequeath promotion in the material worlds how can one who never performs yagna even on the level of the food they eat ever expect to be promoted to the heavenly spheres or ever become qualified for the ultimate achievement of moksa or liberation from the cycle of birth and death in the material existence. Moksa (liberation from Bondages) is the true goal of all human endeavor and real purpose of human existence. 

Whatever form of material existence one is in, one is invariably ignorant of his real situation. In other words, existence in the material world is due to the multiple reactions to our sinful lives. Ignorance is the cause of sinful life, and sinful life is the cause of one's dragging on in material existence. The human form of life is the only loophole by which one may get out of this entanglement. The Vedas, therefore, give us a chance for escape by pointing out the paths of religion, economic comfort, regulated sense gratification and, at last, the means to get out of the miserable condition entirely. The path of religion, or the different kinds of sacrifice recommended above, automatically solves our economic problems.. When the body is fully supplied, naturally the next stage is to satisfy the senses. The Vedas prescribe, therefore, sacred marriage for regulated sense gratification. Thereby one is gradually elevated to the platform of release from material bondage, and the highest perfection of liberated life is to associate with the Supreme Lord. Perfection is achieved by performance of yajna (sacrifice). Now, if a person is not inclined to perform yajna according to the Vedas, how can he expect a happy life? There are different grades of material comforts in different heavenly planets, and in all cases there is immense happiness for persons engaged in different kinds of yajna. But the highest kind of happiness that a man can achieve is to be promoted to the spiritual planets .

By learning the yagyam(sacrifice of sensual gratification) by a competent guru one can know the reality of yagyam, by just wasting tons of milk or by burning the fire wood would not be qualified for yagyam , the real meaning of yagyam is karma doing the Rightful action that is cleansing of subtle mind to purity. Here lord krishna says that what ever is remanant of the food from yagam one should eat is equal to amrit or nector. भगवान् ने  उपयुक्त यज्ञ के रूपक में परमात्मा की प्रप्तिके ज्ञान ,संयम ,तप ,योग ,स्वाध्य ,प्राणायाम आदि ऐसे  साधनों का भी वर्णन किया है जिसमे अन्नका सम्बंद नहीं है । इसलिए यहाँ उपयुक्त  साधनों का अनुष्ठान करने से साधको का अन्थाह्करण शुद्ध  होकर उसमे जो प्रसाद रूप  प्रसन्नता की उपलब्धि होती है , वाही यज्ञ से बचा हुआ अमृत है , कियों की वह अमृत स्वरुप परमाथ की पार्थी हेतु है और वह भाव से उत्पन्न सुख में हर समय तृप्त  रहना ही यहाँ अमृत का अनुभव करना माना जा सकता है। And this is the secret of happiness. also refer 2:64-65,18:36-37..

Important verse of Srimad Bhagvadgita-9

Even the intelligent are bewildered in determining what is action and what is inaction. Now I shall explain to you what action is, knowing which you shall be liberated from all sins.....4:16

One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men, and he is in the transcendental position, although engaged in all sorts of activities.......4:18

 What is the purpose of performing actions as a matter of duty? The satisfaction consists in the knowledge of knowing why the duty is to be discharged.1) The knower is the person who performs works aspiring for moksa. 2)The ignorant is one who performs work for sense gratification.

The former performs work without egoism while the latter performs works full of egoissm. The former is eligible for liberation the latter is eligible for bondage. Lord Krishna now promises to explain it definitively, therefore by knowing and performing actions properly one will be freed from the disease of materialism which binds one tightly to samsara the cycle of birth and death.

Out of compassion Lord Krishna states the truth of action, inaction and prohibited actions. One who sees inaction in action meaning actions bringing no reaction and are not binding to samsara or the cycle of birth and death such as yagna or the worship of the Supreme Lord which leads to knowledge, purity of mind and liberation know it is not binding to samsara. . Then Lord Krishna praises the one who knows the truth about the intricacies(गूढता ) of action and inaction as those of superior intelligence and is firmly on the spiritual path obtaining all fruits because the performer of Vedic actions receives the fruits of the actions included by inaction as well.

The person performing karma or actions accrues reactions by attachment to desires and hankering for rewards. This is delusion as desires are imagined and fantasised before enactment. Thus it is merely a false idea or wrong notion of the mind. The fantasizing alluded to here consists of the mentality which erroneously identifies the atma or soul with prakriti or material nature along with the three gunas being the modes of goodness, passion and ignorance and mistakenly conceives of them as all being one principle. But to that person seeking moksa (liberation from bondage) or liberation all acts regular and occasional performed by them and necessitated by bodily maintenance are not subject to reactions being devoid of desire. Further exemption is guaranteed as the aspirant for moksa is not living in a world of imagination or fantasy because such a person performs every action while being cognisant of the eternal atma. Whoever performs karma in this manner while meditating on the atma is one of spiritual intelligence situated in atma tattva or soul realisation and all reactions to a myriad of past actions have been eradicated by the fire of knowledge. Thus Lord Krishna is praising the person who performs prescribed Vedic activities in atma tattva as being highly laudable. This is in sharp contrast to the karmi or one who performs actions for fruitive rewards being forced to accept reactions.

Important verse of Srimad Bhagvadgita - 8

Lord krishna said: It is lust which becomes anger , arising from the mode of passion;know this lust to be insatiable, extremely sinful and the greatest enemey in this world......3:37

As fire is covered by smoke, as a mirror is covered by dust, or as the embryo is covered by the womb, similarly, the living entity is covered by different degrees of this lust....3:40

The senses, the mind and the intelligence are the sitting places of this lust, which veils the real knowledge of the living entity and bewilders him......3:40

Therefore O Arjuna, first you must bring the senses under control and directly destroy this lust, which is the embodiment of sin and the destroyer of knowledge and realisation.....3:41

The working senses are superior to dull matter; mind is higher than the senses; intelligence is still higher than the mind; and he [the soul] is even higher than the intelligence.....3:42

Thus knowing the individual consciousness to be superior to the intelligence, O mightly armed one, steady the mind by self realization and conquer this insatiable enemy in the form of LUST............3:43

Now in conclusion Lord Krishna establishes the fact that one should try to their utmost to destroy the powerful enemy known as kama or lust. Knowing that kama is the mightiest enemy one must by withdrawing the senses, keeping the mind steady and the intellect resolute in sattva guna the mode of goodness then slay this enemy kama which will attack your mind and senses in various ways causing one to fall into delusion before one becomes powerless to resist. Kama is extremely difficult to overpower and is tenacious and formidable yet if one dedicates all actions to Lord Krishna with their mind fixed on Him they can overcome it. So knowledge of Vedic wisdom and meditation on the Supreme Lord are combined the pancea to neutralise kama from its location in the senses, mind and intellect and then destroy the great enemy known as kama. This path of selfless action unattached without conception of rewards should be practiced according to one's capacity and knowledge as a means of gradually achieving renunciation.
The Guru helps in great way to destroy the kama(lust) through the satsanga. without knowledge of the Truth or supreme reality how come differentiation of the both the lust and truth will occur.After knowing the senses gratification and after knowing the Godhead experience one can easily destroy the sensful gratification which is momentary , and jiva(individual consciousness) with blessings of GuruI(who already freed from bondages) able to experience of supreme Lord.(supreme consciousness)

Important verse of Srimad Bhagvadgita - 7

In charge of the various necessities of life, the demigods, being satisfied by the performance of yajna [sacrifice], supply all necessities to man. But he who enjoys these gifts, without offering them to the demigods in return, is certainly a thief.....3:12

The devotees of the Lord are released from all kinds of sins because they eat food which is offered first for sacrifice. Others, who prepare food for personal sense enjoyment, verily eat only sin...3:13

Very useful verse, to understand the living style one has to adpot, and here i mention the commentary done by kesava kasmiri of vaishnava sampradaya....Therfore those that only eat food that has been offered in yagna or worship are faultless and no other. This Lord Krishna is confirming with the word santah meaning saintly and virtuous. Those who perform yagna become absolved of all sins produced from the daily use of the five utensils in the home used by householders in the cooking and preparing of foods. Such sins are produced from the non-performance of the injunction of yagna and from the performance of the prohibited action. These are serious hindrances in attaining heaven. The five acts if piety performed by the twice born brahmins are mandatory, beginning with Brahma Yagna or Vedic study, offering worship to God, homage to the anscestors, feeding of animals and welcoming and feeding chance guests. These five acts of piety neutralise all sins contracted by the five areas of destuction in the home being the pestle, the grindstone, the fireplace, the waterpot and the broom. Manu Samhita III. 69-71 confirms all sins from these five actions are duly nullified by the five previous acts of piety.

The person who is not offering food to God first and than to other five is eating sin. he cant enjoy things of demi gods without sacrifice. so thats the reason in india Athithi devo bhava they say, still in villages women offer food to agni first after preparation.