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कथं विद्यामहं योगिंस्त्वां सदा परिचिन्तयन्।

केषु केषु च भावेषु चिन्त्योऽसि भगवन्मया।।10.17।।
Bhagavad-Gītā 10.17 · the yathārtha śloka (Devanāgarī Sanskrit · canonical)

🪷 English Translations

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Shri Purohit Swami · Poetic English · 1935 · public domain · Cosmo Press tradition
10.17 O Master! How shall I, by constant meditation, know Thee? My Lord! What are Thy various manifestations through which I am to mediate on Thee?
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
10.17 How shall I, ever meditating, know Thee, O Yogin? In what aspects or things, O blessed Lord, art Thou to be thought of by me?
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
10.17 O Yogi, katham, how; aham vidyam, shall I know tvam, You; sada pari-cintayan, by remaining ever-engaged in meditation? Ca, and; kesu kesu bhavesu, through what objects; bhagvan, O Lord; cintah asi, are You to be meditated on; maya, by me?
Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school
10.17 I, 'Your devotee' (Yogin), namely, one engaged in Bhakti Yoga, and 'constantly meditating on You' with devotion, namely, embarked on meditation on You, - how am I to know You, the object of meditation, as possessing a multitude of auspicious attributes like sovereignty etc.? And in what varied modes of mental dispositions, which are as yet untold and which are different from the intelligence, knowledge etc., described earlier, are You the Controller of all, to be meditated upon by me.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly
10.17. O Mighty Yogin ! How should I know You, meditating on You ? In what several entities, O Bhagavat, are You to be contemplated upon by me ?

🪷 Hindi Translation · हिन्दी अनुवाद

For the Hindi-aware seer · Pūjya Swami Rāmsukhdās ji's translation · a high-readability modern Hindi rendering · Gītā-Press Gorakhpur tradition. (→ Full Mahāpurusha-detail page for the 102-year-living Sādhaka-Sañjīvanī Mahātmā.)

🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Sādhaka-Sañjīvanī tradition · Gītā-Press Gorakhpur · highest modern Hindi reading
।।10.17।। हे योगिन् ! हरदम साङ्गोपाङ्ग चिन्तन करता हुआ मैं आपको कैसे जानूँ ? और हे भगवन् ! किन-किन भावोंमें आप मेरे द्वारा चिन्तन किये जा सकते हैं अर्थात् किन-किन भावोंमें मैं आपका चिन्तन करूँ ?

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Swami Sivananda · Verse-by-verse word-keys with Sanskrit anchors
10.17 कथम् how? विद्याम् shall know? अहम् I? योगिन् O Yogin? त्वाम् Thee? सदा always? परिचिन्तयन् meditating? केषु केषु in what and what? च and? भावेषु aspects? चिन्त्यः to be thought of? असि (Thou) art? भगवन् O blessed Lord? मया by me.Commentary Arjuna says O Lord? how may I know Thee by constant meditation In what aspects art Thou to be thought of by me Even when I think of external objects I can meditate on Thee in Thy particular manifestations in them if I have a detailed knowledge of Thy glories. Therefore deign to tell me? without reserve? of Thy own glories. Then only can I behold oneness everywhere.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
10.17 O Yogi, katham, how; aham vidyam, shall I know tvam, You; sada pari-cintayan, by remaining ever-engaged in meditation? Ca, and; kesu kesu bhavesu, through what objects; bhagvan, O Lord; cintah asi, are You to be meditated on; maya, by me?
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
10.17 I, 'Your devotee' (Yogin), namely, one engaged in Bhakti Yoga, and 'constantly meditating on You' with devotion, namely, embarked on meditation on You, - how am I to know You, the object of meditation, as possessing a multitude of auspicious attributes like sovereignty etc.? And in what varied modes of mental dispositions, which are as yet untold and which are different from the intelligence, knowledge etc., described earlier, are You the Controller of all, to be meditated upon by me.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship
10.17 Sri Abhinavagupta did not comment upon this sloka.
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।10.17।। किस प्रकार मैं आपका चिन्तन या ध्यान करूँ जिससे कि मैं आपको साक्षात् जान सकूँ साधक का लक्ष्य है एकत्व भाव से आत्मा को साक्षात् जानना। अब तक के अध्यायों में कहीं भी गीता ने ध्यानाभ्यास के लिए किसी नदी के तट पर या एकान्त गुफा में जाकर संन्यास का जीवन व्यतीत करने का समर्थन नहीं किया है। श्रीकृष्ण का मनुष्य को आह्वान कर्त्तव्य कर्म करने के लिए है और अपने इसी व्यावहारिक जीवन में ईश्वरानुभूति में जीने के लिए है। हमें यह नहीं भूलना चाहिए कि गीताशास्त्र का उद्घोष महाभारत के समरांगण में उस क्षण हुआ था? जब तत्कालीन समस्त राष्ट्र अपने समय की सबसे बड़ी ऐतिहासिक क्रांति वेला का सामना करने के लिए उद्यत थे। यह क्रांति वेला लौकिक और आध्यात्मिक दोनों ही मूल्यों की निर्णायक थी।अर्जुन कर्त्तव्य पालन के गीताधर्म में पूर्णतया परिवर्तित हो गया था। उसका यह परिवर्तन श्रीकृष्ण को सम्बोधित किये योगिन शब्द से विशेष रूप से दर्शाया गया है। श्रीकृष्ण ऐसे सर्वश्रेष्ठ कर्मयोगी थे? जिन्होंने विविध घटनाओं से परिपूर्ण जीवन में अत्यन्त व्यस्त रहते हुए भी कभी अपने शुद्ध दिव्यस्वरूप का विस्मरण नहीं होने दिया।इस श्लोक में अर्जुन अपने अनुरोध का कारण भी बताते हुए कहता है? आप किनकिन भावों में मेरे द्वारा चिन्तन करने योग्य हैं व्यावहारिक जीवन जीते हुए और उसकी चुनौतियों का सामना करते हुए? यदि सर्वत्र व्याप्त आत्मा का अखण्ड स्मरण बनाये रखना हो? तो साधक को निश्चित रूप से यह जानना आवश्यक होगा कि वह उस तत्त्व को प्रत्येक वस्तु? वस्तुओं के समूह और मनुष्यों के समाज में कहाँ और कैसे देखे।अर्जुन अपनी इच्छा को और अधिक स्पष्ट करते हुए कहता है कि यदि भगवान् का उत्तर विस्तृत भी हो? तब भी उन्हें सुनने और समझने में वह थकान नहीं अनुभव करेगा

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।।10.17।। व्याख्या--'कथं विद्यामहं योगिंस्त्वां सदा परिचिन्तयन्'--सातवें श्लोकमें भगवान्ने कहा कि जो मेरी विभूति और योगको तत्त्वसे जानता है, वह अविचल भक्तियोगसे युक्त हो जाता है। इसलिये अर्जुन भगवान्से पूछते हैं कि हरदम चिन्तन करता हुआ मैं आपको कैसे जानूँ?

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