🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 2.65
Chapter 2 · सांख्ययोग · Sāṅkhya-Yoga · "The Yoga of Knowledge" · Verse 65 of 72
🪷 English Translations
Five authentic English voices · each from a distinct sampradāya · together revealing the verse's full śabda-tattva.
Shri Purohit Swami · Poetic English · 1935 · public domain · Cosmo Press tradition
2.65 Having attained Peace, he becomes free from misery; for when the mind gains peace, right discrimination follows.
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
2.65 In that peace all pains are destroyed; for the intellect of the tranquil-minded soon becomes steady.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
2.65 Prasade, when there is serenity; upajayate, there follows; hanih, eradication; asya sarva-duhkhanam, of all his, the sannyasin's, sorrow on the physical and other planes. Moreover, (this is so) hi, because; buddhih, the wisdom; prasanna-cetasah, of one who has a serene mind, of one whose mind is poised in the Self; asu, soon; pari-avatisthate, becomes firmly established; remains steady (avatisthate) totally (pari), like the sky, i.e. it becomes unmoving in its very nature as the Self.
The meaning of the sentence is this: Since a person with such a poised mind and well-established wisdom attains fulfilment, therefore a man of concentration [A man who is free whom slavery to objects of the senses.] ought to deal with the indispensable and scripturally non-forbidden objects through his senses that are free from love and hatred.
That same serenity is being eulogized:
Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school
2.65 When the mind of this person gets serene, he gets rid of all sorrows originating from contact with matter. For, in respect of the peson whose mind is serene, i.e., is free from the evil which is antagonistic to the vision of the self, the Buddhi, having the pure self for its object, becomes established immediately. Thus, when the mind is serene, the loss of all sorrow surely arises.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly
2.65. On attaining serenity, there arises in succession the extinction of all miseries; the capacity to decide gets stabilized soon indeed in the case of a serene-minded one.
🪷 English Commentaries · The Ācārya Voices
The classical commentary tradition rendered in English · each ācārya speaks from their own sampradāya · the seer chooses the depth of darśana.
Swami Sivananda · Verse-by-verse word-keys with Sanskrit anchors
2.65 प्रसादे in peace? सर्वदुःखानाम् (of) all pains? हानिः destruction? अस्य of him? उपजायते arises (or happens)? प्रसन्नचेतसः of the tranquil-minded? हि because? आशु soon? बुद्धिः intellect (or reason)? पर्यवतिष्ठते becomes steady.Commentary When the mental peace is attained? there is no hankering after senseobjects. The Yogi has perfect mastery over his reason. The intellect abides in the Self. It is ite steady. The miseries of the body and the mind come to an end.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
2.65 Prasade, when there is serenity; upajayate, there follows; hanih, eradication; asya sarva-duhkhanam, of all his, the sannyasin's, sorrow on the physical and other planes. Moreover, (this is so) hi, because; buddhih, the wisdom; prasanna-cetasah, of one who has a serene mind, of one whose mind is poised in the Self; asu, soon; pari-avatisthate, becomes firmly established; remains steady (avatisthate) totally (pari), like the sky, i.e. it becomes unmoving in its very nature as the Self.
The meaning of the sentence is this: Since a person with such a poised mind and well-established wisdom attains fulfilment, therefore a man of concentration [A man who is free whom slavery to objects of the senses.] ought to deal with the indispensable and scripturally non-forbidden objects through his senses that are free from love and hatred.
That same serenity is being eulogized:
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
2.65 When the mind of this person gets serene, he gets rid of all sorrows originating from contact with matter. For, in respect of the peson whose mind is serene, i.e., is free from the evil which is antagonistic to the vision of the self, the Buddhi, having the pure self for its object, becomes established immediately. Thus, when the mind is serene, the loss of all sorrow surely arises.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship
2.65 See Comment under 2.68
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।2.65।। शान्ति के मिलने पर क्या होगा ऐसा प्रश्न मानव बुद्धि में उठना स्वाभाविक है। शान्ति प्राप्त होने पर सब दुखों का अन्त हो जाता है। इस वाक्य में सुख की परिभाषा मिलती है। विक्षेपों का होना दुख कहलाता है। अत विक्षेपों के अभाव रूप मन की शान्ति का अर्थ सुख ही होना चाहिये। शान्ति ही सुख है और सुख ही शान्ति है।यहाँ दुखों की हानि से तात्पर्य वासना निवृत्ति से समझना चाहिये। गीता की प्रस्तावना में हमने देखा है कि बुद्धि पर पड़े वासनाओं के आवरण के कारण मनुष्य शोकमोह को प्राप्त होता है जबकि ज्ञानी पुरुष पूर्ववर्णित बुद्धियोग के अभ्यास से वासनाओं का क्षय करके उनके परे आत्मतत्त्व को पहचान लेता है। सामान्यत वासनाओं से मुक्ति पाना मनुष्य के लिये कठिन प्रतीत होता है परन्तु आत्मसंयम एवं समत्त्वयोग के द्वारा यह कार्य सम्पादन किया जा सकता है।अगले श्लोक में भगवान् कहते हैं
🪷 Place in the Bhagavad-Gītā
- This is verse 65 of 72 in Chapter 2 · Sāṅkhya-Yoga (The Yoga of Knowledge)
- Chapter theme: Krishna's first teaching · the niṣkāma-karma sūtra · BG 2.47
- Ṣaṭka grouping: TVAM-Ṣaṭka (BG 1-6 · the jīva)
- Chapter hub: /sankhya-yoga
🪷 ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय 🪷
सर्वम् कृष्णार्पणम् — this verse is one maṇi (jewel) on Krishna's thread (BG 7.7)