Gita 05.24 – The inner is the way to the spiritual

Bhagavad gita 5.24 yo antah sukho antar aramas tatha antar jyoti revayah yogi brahma nirvana brahma bhuto digacchati yo antah sukho one who experiences happiness in turn this is bhagavad gita 5.24 krishna is talking about the spiritually advanced souls over here yo antah sukho antar aramas antar aramas one who lights within tatha antar jyoti revayah one whose light is within that means one who seeks where there is light that is the path we normally follow and go towards so antar jyoti means one who follows the path internally tatha antar jyoti revayah yogi brahma nirvana brahma yogi attains brahma nirvana brahma bhuta dhika kshati brahma bhuta being on the spiritual platform so now one who seeks happiness attains perfection krishna says what is the perfection brahma nirvana nirvana is often thought of as a buddhistic term in buddhism the perfection of nirvana means extinction of existence but it's like say a candle is there and the candle is extinguished so in buddhist theory it is that in buddhist philosophy it is the idea that our consciousness is like a candle and desire is the fuel that keeps the candle burning when we give up desire when we break free from desire then the candle no longer burns candle gets extinguished and then that is the state of enlightenment so krishna is using the term nirvana you have to understand that certain terms may be popularized by certain traditions but that does not mean that those terms are the monopoly of those traditions and other scriptures may use them and they may use them that does not mean that they are borrowing from that school of thought those terms may well that means it's not that the gita is necessarily borrowing from buddhism rather those terms may well have been existing before buddhism came and buddhism simply made the term prominent but the bhagavad gita is using what was spoken earlier what was the terms the term existed earlier the bhagavad gita is referring to that and the bhagavad gita doesn't use the word nirvana it uses the word brahma nirvana now in , one who is brahma is cheerful is jolly such a person does not hanker or lament and being equal to everyone that person attains the supreme the spiritual devotion pure devotion so there the word comes so impersonal says that okay you practice bhakti now because you are less intelligent you cannot understand the impersonal oneness right now you practice bhakti make advancement when you come to the higher modes then you will understand how you and your object are one so they have the idea that brahman is the brahman is the prelude to sorry that they said their idea that bhakti is the prelude to brahman brahman is the graduation of bhakti but here krishna says that of course bhakti can be practiced from any stage even if a person is in the mode of ignorance or passion or whatever but parabhakti pure devotion is actually the graduation of the path of detachment it leads one to complete deep understanding of the Gita now in this way actually Krishna in this verse talks he talks about the attainment of spiritual perfection.