🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 2.68
Chapter 2 · सांख्ययोग · Sāṅkhya-Yoga · "The Yoga of Knowledge" · Verse 68 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
2.68 Therefore, O Might-in-Arms, he who keeps his senses detached from their objects - take it that his reason is purified.
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
2.68 Therefore, O mighty-armed Arjuna, his knowledge is steady whose senses are completely restrained from sense-objects.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
2.68 Since the evils arising from the activities of the organs have been described, tasmat, therefore; mahabaho, O mighty-armed one; tasya, his, the sannyasin's; prajna, wisdom; pratisthita, becomes established; yasya, whose; indriyani, organs; sarvasah, in all their varieties, differentiated as mind etc.; nigrhitani, are withdrawn; indriya-arthhyah, from their objects such as sound etc.
In the case of a man of steady wisdom in whom has arisen discriminating knowledge, those which are these ordinary and Vedic dealings cease on the eradication of ignorance, they being effects of ignorance. And ignorance ceases because it is opposed to Knowledge. For clarifying this idea, the Lord says:
Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school
2.68 Therefore, in the way described above, he whose mind is focussed on Me the auspicious object for meditation, and whose senses are thery restrained from sense-objects in everyway, in his mind alone wisdom is firmly set.
Sri Krsna now speaks of the state of attainment by one whose senses are subdued and whose mind is serene.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly
2.68. Therefore, O mighty-armed one, the intellect of that person is stabilized, all of whose sense-organs, starting from sense-objects have been well restrained.
🪷 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
2.68 तस्मात् therefore? यस्य whose? महाबाहो O mightyarmed? निगृहीतानि restrained? सर्वशः completely? इन्द्रियाणि the senses? इन्द्रियार्थेभ्यः from the senseobjects? तस्य his? प्रज्ञा knowledge? प्रतिष्ठिता is steady.Commentary When the senses are completely controlled? the mind cannot wander wildly in the sensual grooves. It becomes steady like the lamp in a windless place. The Yogi is now established in the Self and his knowledge is steady. (Cf.III.7).
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
2.68 Since the evils arising from the activities of the organs have been described, tasmat, therefore; mahabaho, O mighty-armed one; tasya, his, the sannyasin's; prajna, wisdom; pratisthita, becomes established; yasya, whose; indriyani, organs; sarvasah, in all their varieties, differentiated as mind etc.; nigrhitani, are withdrawn; indriya-arthhyah, from their objects such as sound etc.
In the case of a man of steady wisdom in whom has arisen discriminating knowledge, those which are these ordinary and Vedic dealings cease on the eradication of ignorance, they being effects of ignorance. And ignorance ceases because it is opposed to Knowledge. For clarifying this idea, the Lord says:
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
2.68 Therefore, in the way described above, he whose mind is focussed on Me the auspicious object for meditation, and whose senses are thery restrained from sense-objects in everyway, in his mind alone wisdom is firmly set.
Sri Krsna now speaks of the state of attainment by one whose senses are subdued and whose mind is serene.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship
2.64-68 Raga-dvesa-etc. upto pratisthita. Here the purport is this : He, who controls his mind, is not tossed by the waves of wrath etc., even while he is enjoying the sense-objects; hence he alone is a man of Yoga, a man-of-stabilized-intellect.
Extraordinary is the man of Yoga, even while he is attending to the worldly business. While examining this point, the characteristics mark of his (man of Yoga), is briefly related by the Supreme Lord-
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।2.68।। किसी सिद्धांत को समझाते समय पर्याप्त तर्क प्रस्तुत किये बिना हम अन्तिम निष्कर्ष को प्रकट नहीं करते चाहे वह निष्कर्ष कितना ही स्वीकार करने योग्य क्यों न हो। इसी को ध्यान में रखते हुए श्रीकृष्ण अर्जुन को आवश्यक तर्क देने के बाद इस श्लोक में इस निष्कर्ष पर पहुँचते हैं कि केवल अश्रु विलाप और शोक के अतिरिक्त किसी उच्चतर वस्तु की अपेक्षा यदि हम जीवन में करते हैं तो संयमपूर्ण जीवन ही जीने योग्य है। इन्द्रियों के विषयों से जिसकी इन्द्रियाँ पूर्णत वश में होती हैं वही पुरुष वास्तव में स्थितप्रज्ञ है।इन्द्रियों को वश में रखने का अर्थ यह नहीं समझना चाहिए कि ज्ञानी पुरुष की इन्द्रियाँ निरुपयोगी हो जाती हैं जिससे वह किसी प्रकार विषय ग्रहण ही न कर सके इन्द्रियों की दुर्बलता ज्ञान का लक्षण नहीं। इसका अर्थ केवल यह है कि विषयों के ग्रहण करने से उसके मन की शान्ति में कोई विघ्न नहीं आ सकता उसे कोई विचलित नहीं कर सकता। अज्ञानी पुरुष इन्द्रियों का दास होता है जबकि स्थितप्रज्ञ पुरुष उनका स्वामी।ज्ञानी के लक्षण को स्पष्ट करते हुए भगवान् आगे कहते हैं
🪷 Place in the Bhagavad-Gītā
- This is verse 68 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)
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सर्वम् कृष्णार्पणम् — this verse is one maṇi (jewel) on Krishna's thread (BG 7.7)