The Yoga of Knowledge

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Arjuna uvācaअर्जुन उवाच

1. 2·54स्थितप्रज्ञस्य का भाषा समाधिस्थस्य केशव । स्थितधीः किं प्रभाषेत किमासीत व्रजेत किम् ॥ ५४ ॥sthitaprajñasya kā bhāṣā samādhisthasya keśava, sthitadhīḥ kiṁ prabhāṣeta kimāsīta vrajeta kim.What is the sign of the man in Samadhi whose intelligence is firmly fixed in wisdom?

Śrī Bhagavān uvācaश्रीभगवानुवाच

1. 2·55प्रजहाति यदा कामान्सर्वान्पार्थ मनोगतान् । आत्मन्येवात्मना तुष्टः स्थितप्रज्ञस्तदोच्यते ॥ ५५ ॥prajahāti yadā kāmānsarvānpārtha manogatān, ātmanyevātmanā tuṣṭaḥ sthitaprajñastadocyate.When a man expels, O Partha, all desires from the mind, and is satisfied in the self by the self, then is he…
2. 2·56दुःखेष्वनुद्विग्नमनाः सुखेषु विगतस्पृहः । वीतरागभयक्रोधः स्थितधीर्मुनिरुच्यते ॥ ५६ ॥duḥkheṣvanudvignamanāḥ sukheṣu vigataspṛhaḥ, vītarāgabhayakrodhaḥ sthitadhīrmunirucyate.He whose mind is undisturbed in the midst of sorrows and amid pleasures is free from desire, from whom liking…
3. 2·57यः सर्वत्रानभिस्नेहस्तत्तत्प्राप्य शुभाशुभम् । नाभिनन्दति न द्वेष्टि तस्य प्रज्ञा प्रतिष्ठिता ॥ ५७ ॥yaḥ sarvatrānabhisnehastattatprāpya śubhāśubham, nābhinandati na dveṣṭi tasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā.Who in all things is without affection though visited by this good or that evil and neither hates nor…
4. 2·58यदा संहरते चायं कूर्मोऽङ्गानीव सर्वशः । इन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थेभ्यस्तस्य प्रज्ञा प्रतिष्ठिता ॥ ५८ ॥yadā saṁharate cāyaṁ kūrmo’ṅgānīva sarvaśaḥ, indriyāṇīndriyārthebhyastasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā.Who draws away the senses from the objects of sense, as the tortoise draws in his limbs into the shell, his…
5. 2·59विषया विनिवर्तन्ते निराहारस्य देहिनः । रसवर्जं रसोऽप्यस्य परं दृष्ट्वा निवर्तते ॥ ५९ ॥viṣayā vinivartante nirāhārasya dehinaḥ, rasavarjaṁ raso’pyasya paraṁ dṛṣṭvā nivartate.If one abstains from food, the objects of sense cease to affect, but the affection itself of the sense, the…
6. 2·60यततो ह्यपि कौन्तेय पुरुषस्य विपश्चितः । इन्द्रियाणि प्रमाथीनि हरन्ति प्रसभं मनः ॥ ६० ॥yatato hyapi kaunteya puruṣasya vipaścitaḥ, indriyāṇi pramāthīni haranti prasabhaṁ manaḥ.Even the mind of the wise man who labours for perfection is carried away by the vehement insistence of the…
7. 2·61तानि सर्वाणि संयम्य युक्त आसीत मत्परः । वशे हि यस्येन्द्रियाणि तस्य प्रज्ञा प्रतिष्ठिता ॥ ६१ ॥tāni sarvāṇi saṁyamya yukta āsīta matparaḥ, vaśe hi yasyendriyāṇi tasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā.Having brought all the senses under control, he must sit firm in Yoga, wholly given up to Me…
8. 2·62ध्यायतो विषयान्पुंसः संगस्तेषूपजायते । सङ्गात्सञ्जायते कामः कामात्क्रोधोऽभिजायते ॥ ६२ ॥dhyāyato viṣayānpuṁsaḥ saṅgasteṣūpajāyate, saṅgātsaṁjāyate kāmaḥ kāmātkrodho’bhijāyate.In him whose mind dwells on the objects of sense with absorbing interest, attachment to them is formed…
9. 2·63क्रोधाद्भवति सम्मोहः संमोहात्स्मृतिविभ्रमः । स्मृतिभ्रंशाद् बुद्धिनाशो बुद्धिनाशात्प्रणश्यति ॥ ६३ ॥krodhādbhavati saṁmohaḥ saṁmohātsmṛtivibhramaḥ, smṛtibhraṁśād buddhināśo buddhināśātpraṇaśyati.Anger leads to bewilderment, from bewilderment comes loss of memory; and by that the intelligence is destroyed…
10. 2·64रागद्वेषवियुक्तैस्तु विषयानिन्द्रियैश्चरन् । आत्मवश्यैर्विधेयात्मा प्रसादमधिगच्छति ॥ ६४ ॥rāgadveṣaviyuktaistu viṣayānindriyaiścaran, ātmavaśyairvidheyātmā prasādamadhigacchati.It is by ranging over the objects with the senses, but with senses subject to the self, freed from liking and…
11. 2·65प्रसादे सर्वदुःखानां हानिरस्योपजायते । प्रसन्नचेतसो ह्याशु बुद्धिः पर्यवतिष्ठते ॥ ६५ ॥prasāde sarvaduḥkhānāṁ hānirasyopajāyate, prasannacetaso hyāśu buddhiḥ paryavatiṣṭhate.By that, large and sweet clearness of soul and temperament, passion and grief find no place…
12. 2·66नास्ति बुद्धिरयुक्तस्य न चायुक्तस्य भावना । न चाभावयतः शान्तिरशान्तस्य कुतः सुखम् ॥ ६६ ॥nāsti buddhirayuktasya na cāyuktasya bhāvanā, na cābhāvayataḥ śāntiraśāntasya kutaḥ sukham.For one who is not in Yoga, there is no intelligence, no concentration of thought…
13. 2·67इन्द्रियाणां हि चरतां यन्मनोऽनुविधीयते । तदस्य हरति प्रज्ञां वायुर्नावमिवाम्भसि ॥ ६७ ॥indriyāṇāṁ hi caratāṁ yanmano’nuvidhīyate, tadasya harati prajñāṁ vāyurnāvamivāmbhasi.Such of the roving senses as the mind follows, that carries away the understanding, just as the winds carry…
14. 2·68तस्माद्यस्य महाबाहो निगृहीतानि सर्वशः । इन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थेभ्यस्तस्य प्रज्ञा प्रतिष्ठिता ॥ ६८ ॥tasmādyasya mahābāho nigṛhītāni sarvaśaḥ, indriyāṇīndriyārthebhyastasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā.Therefore, O mighty-armed, one who has utterly restrained the excitement of the senses by their objects, his…
15. 2·69या निशा सर्वभूतानां तस्यां जागर्ति संयमी । यस्यां जाग्रति भूतानि सा निशा पश्यतो मुनेः ॥ ६९ ॥yā niśā sarvabhūtānāṁ tasyāṁ jāgarti saṁyamī, yasyāṁ jāgrati bhūtāni sā niśā paśyato muneḥ.That (higher being) which is to all creatures a night, is to the self-mastering sage his waking (his luminous…
16. 2·70, a key verseआपूर्यमाणमचलप्रतिष्ठं समुद्रमापः प्रविशन्ति यद्वत् । तद्वत्कामा यं प्रविशन्ति सर्वे स शान्तिमाप्नोति न कामकामी ॥ ७० ॥āpūryamāṇamacalapratiṣṭhaṁ samudramāpaḥ praviśanti yadvat, tadvatkāmā yaṁ praviśanti sarve sa śāntimāpnoti na kāmakāmī.He attains peace, into whom all desires enter as waters into the sea (an ocean of wide being and…
17. 2·71विहाय कामान्यः सर्वान्पुमांश्चरति निःस्पृहः । निर्ममो निरहंकारः स शान्तिमधिगच्छति ॥ ७१ ॥vihāya kāmānyaḥ sarvānpumāṁścarati niḥspṛhaḥ, nirmamo nirahaṅkāraḥ sa śāntimadhigacchati.Who abandons all desires and lives and acts free from longing, who has no “I” or “mine” (who has extinguished…
18. 2·72एषा ब्राह्मी स्थितिः पार्थ नैनां प्राप्य विमुह्यति । स्थित्वास्यामन्तकालेऽपि ब्रह्मनिर्वाणमृच्छति ॥ ७२ ॥eṣā brāhmī sthitiḥ pārtha naināṁ prāpya vimuhyati, sthitvāsyāmantakāle’pi brahmanirvāṇamṛcchati.This is brāhmī sthitiḥ (firm standing in the Brahman), O son of Pritha.