Verse 44:
"bhogaisvarya-prasaktanam
tayapahrta-cetasam
vyavasayatmika buddhih
samadhau na vidhiyate
"
(44) The minds of those who are too attached to sense enjoyment and material opulence, and who are bewildered by such things, are unable to develop the resolute will of a concentrated mind.
Explanation: Those who cling to pleasure and power and whose understanding is contaminated by that flowery speech relating to pleasure and lordly powers, the mental disposition characterized by resolution will not arise in their Samadhi. The knowledge of Self does not arise in such minds hankering for worldy gains.
There cannot arise any mental disposition, in minds that looks on all vedic rituals as means for liberation based on the determined conviction about the real form of the Self.
Verse 45:
"trai-gunya-visaya veda
nistraigunyo bhavarjuna
nirdvandvo nitya-sattva-stho
niryoga-ksema atmavan
"
(45)
The Vedas mainly deal with the subject of the three Gunas (modes) of material nature. Rise above these modes, O Arjuna. Be transcendental to all of them. Be free from all dualities and from all anxieties for gain and safety, and be established in the Self.
Explanation: The three Gunas or modes are Sattva, Rajas and Tamas. The Vedas in prescribing desire oriented rituals have such people in view. The Vedas teach what is good to those in whom Rajas, Tamas and Sattva preponderate. If the Vedas had not explained the means to attaining heavan etc then those people who are not interested in liberation, owing to absence of Sattva, would get completely lost.
Be free from the three Gunas and try to increase Sattva. Never care to acquire things nor protect things that has been acquired.
Verse 46:
"yavan artha udapane
sarvatah samplutodake
tavan sarvesu vedesu
brahmanasya vijanatah
"
(46)What use a thirsty person has for a water reservoir when all its sides are flooded - that much alone is the use of all the vedas for a Brahmana who knows.
Explanation:
A thirty man will require only so much water that is enough to quench his thirst. The excess water in the reservoir is of no use to him.
Similarly the Vedas provide the means of liberation to a knowledgable Brahmana.
One who is engaged in the study of Vedas and aspiring for salvation, only that much extent from the Vedas is to be accepted by him and noting else.
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