Chapter 2, Verse 52
yadā te mohakalilaṁ
buddhir vyati-tariṣyati
tadā gantāsi nirvedaṁ
śrotavyasya śrutasya ca
When your intelligence crosses beyond the whirl of delusion, then you will become indifferent to scriptures already heard and to scriptures you are yet to hear.
Here Lord Krishna says that when all this has been eradicated from your mind, when all the negative qualities have been discharged, when your mind has been purified of all impurities, and when your intellect is focused on the Divine, then you realise that there is no ‘good’ or ‘bad’. Even when you hear somebody flatter you or not flatter you, it doesn’t make any difference.
In this verse, Lord Krishna refers to what the scriptures say you should do or should not do. In the scriptures there are always many things that tell you – you have to do this and you have not to do that.
Krishna says that when your mind is completely focused on the Divine, what you read in the scriptures or what you hear from the scriptures, doesn’t make any difference to you. You perceive the Divine everywhere, not only in saintly people, but in everyone – wherever you go and in whatever duty you do. And you do your duty with such devotion, you do it with such eagerness, solely to serve and please God. You renounce any merit that the mind is thinking it may gain by serving the Lord. Some people say, “We pray, we pray, we love,” yet behind this there is always a certain expectation.
In this verse, the Lord tells Arjuna that after the disappearance of attachment, his mind would regain its natural state of transparency. He would then develop genuine indifference towards all, towards the ephemeral objects of this world and the next.
Bhagavad Gita
