BG 15.05 nirmana-moha jita-sanga-dosa... cited

Expressions researched:
"Those who are free from false prestige" |"adhyatma-nitya vinivrtta-kamah" |"dvandvair vimuktah sukha-duhkha-samjnair" |"gacchanty amudhah padam avyayam tat" |"nirmana-moha jita-sanga-dosa" |"who are done with material lust" |"who are freed from the dualities of happiness and distress"

Notes from the compiler: VedaBase query: "15.5" or "Those who are free from false prestige" or "adhyatma-nitya vinivrtta-kamah" or "dvandvair vimuktah sukha-duhkha-samjnair" or "gacchanty amudhah padam avyayam tat" or "nirmana-moha jita-sanga-dosa" or "who are done with material lust" or "who are freed from the dualities of happiness and distress"

BG Preface and Introduction

BG Introduction:

The Lord suggests that we attain the spiritual world in the following manner (BG 15.5):

nirmāna-mohā jita-saṅga-doṣā

adhyātma-nityā vinivṛtta-kāmāḥ

dvandvair vimuktāḥ sukha-duḥkha-saṁjñair

gacchanty amūḍhāḥ padam avyayaṁ tat

That padam avyayam, or eternal kingdom, can be reached by one who is nirmāna-moha. What does this mean? We are after designations. Someone wants to become "sir," someone wants to become "lord," someone wants to become the president or a rich man or a king or something else. As long as we are attached to these designations, we are attached to the body, because designations belong to the body. But we are not these bodies, and realizing this is the first stage in spiritual realization. We are associated with the three modes of material nature, but we must become detached through devotional service to the Lord. If we are not attached to devotional service to the Lord, then we cannot become detached from the modes of material nature. Designations and attachments are due to our lust and desire, our wanting to lord it over the material nature. As long as we do not give up this propensity of lording it over material nature, there is no possibility of returning to the kingdom of the Supreme, the sanātana-dhāma. That eternal kingdom, which is never destroyed, can be approached by one who is not bewildered by the attractions of false material enjoyments, who is situated in the service of the Supreme Lord. One so situated can easily approach that supreme abode.