Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Bhagavad-gītā As It Is 5.21

bāhya-sparśeshv asaktātmā

vindaty ātmani yat sukham

sa brahma-yoga-yuktātmā

sukham akshayam aśnute

SYNONYMS

bāhya-sparśeshu — in external sense pleasure; asakta-ātmā — one who is not attached; vindati — enjoys; ātmani — in the self; yat — that which; sukham — happiness; sah — he; brahma-yoga — by concentration in Brahman; yukta-ātmā — self-connected; sukham — happiness; akshayam — unlimited; aśnute — enjoys.

TRANSLATION

Such a liberated person is not attracted to material sense pleasure 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.

PURPORT

Śrī Yāmunācārya, a great devotee in Krishna consciousness, said:

yad-avadhi mama cetah krishna-pādāravinde

nava-nava-rasa-dhāmany udyatam rantum āsīt

tad-avadhi bata nārī-sańgame smaryamāne

bhavati mukha-vikārah sushthu nishthīvanam ca

"Since I have been engaged in the transcendental loving service of Krishna, realizing ever-new pleasure in Him, whenever I think of sex pleasure I spit at the thought, and my lips curl with distaste." A person in brahma-yoga, or Krishna consciousness, is so absorbed in the loving service of the Lord that he loses his taste for material sense pleasure altogether. The highest pleasure in terms of matter is sex pleasure. The whole world is moving under its spell, and a materialist cannot work at all without this motivation. But a person engaged in Krishna consciousness can work with greater vigor without sex pleasure, which he avoids. That is the test in spiritual realization. Spiritual realization and sex pleasure go ill together. A Krishna conscious person is not attracted to any kind of sense pleasure, due to his being a liberated soul.

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