Bhagavad Gita 6.21

sukham ātyantikaṁ yat tad

buddhi-grāhyam atīndriyam

vetti yatra na caivāyaṁ

sthitaś calati tattvataḥ

 

“This is the supreme bliss of transcendence,

Beyond the senses, grasped by intelligence.

In this divine experience, seers steadily rest,

Knowing it as the truth, purest and best.”

 

My dear Lord, you have in store for me such sublime and divine experiences that I cannot even conceive of at present.

Due to my material attachments, O Lord, I primarily seek experiences through my senses. I chase after objects that appear irresistibly new in their appearance but turn out to be frustratingly old and empty in their substance. The pleasure in such experiences is disappointing in quantity and disappearing in longevity. Indeed, thousands and millions of times have I sought pleasure through the senses, only to be left at best with an anti-climactic emptiness.

Please, O Lord, give me the courage to try out something truly new—by replacing senses with my intelligence as my guide to enriching experiences.

Let my intelligence be sustained by your words of wisdom and by the words of seers who have followed those words and realized the inexhaustible joy thereof. Let such words strengthen my intelligence to direct my consciousness upward, opening me to exploring, experiencing, and embracing the mystical higher levels of reality.

There, in that mystical domain, exist joys that dwarf all sensual pleasures. And at the zenith of that transcendental realm are you, my Lord, the all-attractive divinity. And you are forever inviting me to enjoy life’s most enriching experience: offering you my love and relishing your love for me. 

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06.21 In that joyous state, one is situated in boundless transcendental happiness, realized through transcendental senses. Established thus, one never departs from the truth.