🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 3.6
Chapter 3 · कर्मयोग · Karma-Yoga · "The Yoga of Action" · Verse 6 of 43
🪷 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
3.6 He who remains motionless, refusing to act, but all the while brooding over sensuous object, that deluded soul is simply a hypocrite.
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
3.6 He who, restraining the organs of action, sits thinking of the sense-objects in mind, he of deluded understanding is called a hypocrite.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
3.6 Yah, one who; samyamya, after withdrawing; karma-indriyani, the organs of action-hands etc.; aste, sits; manasa, mentally; smaran, recollecting, thinking; indriya-arthan, the objects of the senses; sah, that one; vimudha-atma, of deluded mind; ucyate, is called; mithya-acarah, a hypocrite, a sinful person.
Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school
3.6 He whose inner and outer organs of senses are not conered because of his sins not being annulled but is none the less struggling for winning knowledge of the self, whose mind is forced to turn away from the self by reason of it being attached to sense objects, and who conseently lets his minds dwell on them - he is called a hypocrite, because his actions are at variance with his professions. The meaning is that by practising the knowledge of the self in this way, he becomes perverted and lost.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly
3.6. Controlling organs of actions, whosoever sits with his mind, pondering over the sense objects-that person is a man of deluded soul and [he] is called a man of deluded action.
🪷 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
3.6 कर्मेन्द्रियाणि organs of action? संयम्य restraining? यः who? आस्ते sits? मनसा by the mind? स्मरन् remembering? इन्द्रियार्थान् senseobjects? विमूढात्मा of deluded understanding? मिथ्याचारः hypocrite? सः he? उच्यते is called.Commentary The five organs of action? Karma Indriyas? are Vak (organ of speech)? Pani (hands)? Padam (feet)? Upastha (genitals) and Guda (anus). They are born of the Rajasic portion of the five Tanmatras or subtle elements Vak from the Akasa Tanmatra (ether)? Pani from the Vayu Tanmatra (air)? Padam from the Agni Tanmatra (fire)? Upastha from the Apas Tanmatra (water)? and Guda from the Prithivi Tanmatra (earth). That man who? restraining the organs of action? sits revolving in his mind thoughts regarding the objects of the senses is a man of sinful conduct. He is selfdeluded. He is a veritable hypocrite.The organs of action must be controlled. The thoughts should also be controlled. The mind should be firmly fixed on the Lord. Only then will you become a true Yogi. Only then will you attain to Selfrealisation.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
3.6 Yah, one who; samyamya, after withdrawing; karma-indriyani, the organs of action-hands etc.; aste, sits; manasa, mentally; smaran, recollecting, thinking; indriya-arthan, the objects of the senses; sah, that one; vimudha-atma, of deluded mind; ucyate, is called; mithya-acarah, a hypocrite, a sinful person.
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
3.6 He whose inner and outer organs of senses are not conered because of his sins not being annulled but is none the less struggling for winning knowledge of the self, whose mind is forced to turn away from the self by reason of it being attached to sense objects, and who conseently lets his minds dwell on them - he is called a hypocrite, because his actions are at variance with his professions. The meaning is that by practising the knowledge of the self in this way, he becomes perverted and lost.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship
3.6 Karmendriyani etc. If he does not act with his organs of action, then he necessarily acts with his mind. At the same time he is the man of deluded action; For, the mental actions can never be avoided totally.
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।3.6।। शरीर से निष्क्रिय होकर कहीं भी नहीं पहुँचा जा सकता फिर पूर्णत्व की स्थिति के विषय में क्या कहना। जिसने कर्मेन्द्रियों के निग्रह के साथ ही मन और बुद्धि को विषयों के चिन्तन से बुद्धिमत्तापूर्वक निवृत्त नहीं किया हो तो ऐसे साधक की आध्यात्मिक उन्नति निश्चय ही असुरक्षित और आनन्दरहित होगी।मनोविज्ञान की आधुनिक पुस्तकों मे उपर्युक्त वाक्य का सत्यत्व सिद्ध होता है। शरीर से अनैतिक और अपराध पूर्ण कर्म करने की अपेक्षा मन से उनका चिन्तन करते रहना अधिक हानिकारक है। मन का स्वभाव है एक विचार को बारंबार दोहराना। इस प्रकार एक ही विचार के निरन्तर चिन्तन से मन में उसका दृढ़ संस्कार (वासना) बन जाता है और फिर जो कोई विचार हमारे मन में उठता है उनका प्रवाह पूर्व निर्मित दिशा में ही होता है। विचारो की दिशा निश्चित हो जाने पर वही मनुष्य का स्वभाव बन जाता है जो उसके प्रत्येक कर्म में व्यक्त होता है। अत निरन्तर विषयचिन्तन से वैषयिक संस्कार मन में गहराई से उत्कीर्ण हो जाते हैं और फिर उनसे प्रेरित विवश मनुष्य संसार में इसी प्रकार के कर्म करते हुये देखने को मिलता है।जो व्यक्ति बाह्य रूप से नैतिक और आदर्शवादी होने का प्रदर्शन करते हुये मन में निम्न स्तर की वृत्तियों में रहता है वास्तव में वह अध्यात्म का सच्चा साधक नहीं वरन् जैसा कि यहाँ कहा गया है विमूढ और मिथ्याचारी है हम सब जानते हैं कि शारीरिक संयम होने पर भी मन की वैषयिक वृत्तियों को संयमित करना सामान्य पुरुष के लिये कठिन होता है।यह समझते हुये कि सामान्य पुरुष अपनी स्वाभाविक प्रवृत्तियों से स्वयं को सुरक्षित रखने का उपाय नहीं जान सकता इसलिये भगवान कहते हैं
🪷 Place in the Bhagavad-Gītā
- This is verse 6 of 43 in Chapter 3 · Karma-Yoga (The Yoga of Action)
- Chapter theme: Action as worship · the yajña-cycle · sva-dharma over para-dharma
- Ṣaṭka grouping: TVAM-Ṣaṭka (BG 1-6 · the jīva)
- Chapter hub: /karma-yoga
🪷 ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय 🪷
सर्वम् कृष्णार्पणम् — this verse is one maṇi (jewel) on Krishna's thread (BG 7.7)