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yatroparamate chittaṁ niruddhaṁ yoga-sevayā | yatra chaivātmanātmānaṁ paśhyann ātmani tuṣhyati || 20|| sukham ātyantikaṁ yat tad buddhi-grāhyam atīndriyam | vetti yatra na chaivāyaṁ sthitaśh chalati tattvataḥ || 21|| – Nothing more than Atma Sukham. Isn’t it? 😊🙏🏻❤️‍🔥

(Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 6, Verses 20 and 21 in Sanskrit, as asked in the Original question:)

यत्रोपरमते चित्तं निरुद्धं योगसेवया |
यत्र चैवात्मनात्मानं पश्यन्नात्मनि तुष्यति || 20||
सुखमात्यन्तिकं यत्तद्बुद्धिग्राह्यमतीन्द्रियम् |
वेत्ति यत्र न चैवायं स्थितश्चलति तत्त्वत: || 21|| – Nothing more than Atma Sukham. Isn’t it?

Greater than Atma Sukham is Atma abhivyaktim for which creation emerged and Atma paripoornata in which the Divine dwells. 

Sri Aurobindo reveals in Savitri. 

‘Imperfect is the joy not shared by all.’

He further reveals the various other possibilities that the soul can enjoy than the joy of liberation in a mute, featureless Alone.

‘Therefore, also, an integral liberation. Not only the freedom born of unbroken contact and identification of the individual being in all its parts with the Divine, sāyujya-mukti, by which it can become free2 even in its separation, even in the duality; not only the sālokya-mukti by which the whole conscious existence dwells in the same status of being as the Divine, in the state of Sachchidananda; but also the acquisition of the divine nature by the transformation of this lower being into the human image of the Divine, sādharmya-mukti, and the complete and final release of all, the liberation of the consciousness from the transitory mould of the ego and its unification with the One Being, universal both in the world and the individual and transcendentally one both in the world and beyond all universe.

By this integral realisation and liberation, the perfect harmony of the results of Knowledge, Love and Works. For there is attained the complete release from ego and identification in being with the One in all and beyond all. But since the attaining consciousness is not limited by its attainment, we win also the unity in Beatitude and the harmonised diversity in Love, so that all relations of the play remain possible to us even while we retain on the heights of our being the eternal oneness with the Beloved. And by a similar wideness, being capable of a freedom in spirit that embraces life and does not depend upon withdrawal from life, we are able to become without egoism, bondage or reaction the channel in our mind and body for a divine action poured out freely upon the world.’

(Ref. https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-synthesis-of-the-systems#p15)

Affectionately,

Alok Da

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