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Articles: My Thoughts | Sthitaprajna
- Mr. Bhuvanendra Bhupala
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The Lord describes the qualities of a Sthitaprajna or a person of equable mind. He is one whose mind is turned towards God and who is free from worldly desires. Pleasure and pain are both alike to him. Emotions like love, hatred and fear do not perturb him. We all have need to develop these qualities step by step before realizing God. But in a Sthitaprajna, these qualities are found to be native or inbuilt. A child has to totter while learning to walk but when it grows up it walks so naturally and effortlessly. We see a similar difference between an aspirant and an illumined soul. Whereas an aspirant, a novice in the art, has to strive for it like a child, an illumined soul gets it effortlessly. One who does not require any effort at all in the expression of these virtues is termed a Sthitaprajna.
A solid example of ‘Sthitaprajna’ is Lord Himself and many clairvoyant souls. Baba is one such Guru who always used to give references of what Lord Krishna said in Geeta.
The sthitaprajna, with his senses under control does not fall a prey to temptations and he leads a pure life un-torn by lust and anger. Just as a tortoise withdraws its legs into its shell, so also can a Sthitaprajna easily withdraw his senses from the world of sense. He is not hampered by the world of the senses. Mix milk with water, it is hard to separate. But the same milk when boiled well and made into curds and churned yields butter and this butter can be taken out of water easily. Our mind is like milk and if we let it go into worldly temptations, it gets thoroughly mixed up with it and we cannot take it out. But the mind of the illumined soul is like butter. Even when immersed in worldly affairs it does not get mixed up with it. It can be withdrawn from worldly things at will. We only know how to let go our senses but do not at all know how to withdraw them from carnal pleasures. That weakness is the product of a feeble mind.
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