🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 4.27
Chapter 4 · ज्ञानकर्मसंन्यासयोग · Jñāna-Karma-Sannyāsa-Yoga · "The Yoga of Knowledge & Action-Renunciation" · Verse 27 of 42
🪷 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
4.27 Other again sacrifice their activities and their vitality in the Spiritual fire of self-abnegation, kindled by wisdom.
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
4.27 Others again sacrifice all the functions of the senses and those of the breath (vital energy or Prana) in the fire of the Yoga of self-restraint kindled by knowledge.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
4.27 Further, apare, others; juhvati, offer, i.e. merge; sarvani, all; indriya-karmani, the activities of the organs; and also the prana-karmani, activities of the vital force- prana means the air in the body; they offer its activities such as contraction, expansion, etc; atma-samyama yoga-agnau, into the fire of the yoga of self-control-withdrawal (samyama) [Samyama consists of concentration, meditation, and Self-absorption. The idea conveyed by the verse is that by stopping all activities, they concentrate the mind on the Self.] into the Self (atma) is self-control (atma-samyama); that itself is the fire of yoga (yoga-agni); (they offer) into that fire; jnana-dipite, which has been lighted by Knowledge, made to blaze up by discriminating knowledge, as if lighted up by oil.
Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school
4.27 Some again offer as oblations all the functions of the senses, the activities of the vital breath etc., into the fire of Yoga of restraint of the mind kindled by knowledge. They endeavour to prevent the mind from getting attached to the functions of the senses and vital breaths. That is, by contemplating on the self they sublimate these energies and overcome even the lurking subtle desires for them.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly
4.27. Some others offer all actions of their sense-organs and the actions of their life-breath into the fire of Yoga of the self control, set ablaze by wisdom.
🪷 Hindi Translation · हिन्दी अनुवाद
For the Hindi-aware seer · Pūjya Swami Rāmsukhdās ji's translation · the highest-readability modern Hindi rendering · Gītā-Press Gorakhpur tradition.
🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Sādhaka-Sañjīvanī tradition · Gītā-Press Gorakhpur · highest modern Hindi reading
।।4.27।। अन्य योगीलोग सम्पूर्ण इन्द्रियोंकी क्रियाओंको और प्राणोंकी क्रियाओंको ज्ञानसे प्रकाशित आत्मसंयमयोगरूप अग्निमें हवन किया करते हैं।
🪷 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
4.27 सर्वाणि all? इन्द्रियकर्माणि functions of the senses? प्राणकर्माणि functions of the breath (vital energy)? च and? अपरे other? आत्मसंयमयोगाग्नौ in the fire of the Yoga of selfrestraitn? जुह्वति sacrifice? ज्ञानदीपिते kindled by knowledge.Commentary Just as a lamp is kindled by oil? so also the fire of the Yoga of selfcontrol is kindled by knowledge. When the Yogi concentrates or fixes his mind on Brahman or the Self? the senses and the breath cease to function. The senses and the breath are absorbed into their cause.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
4.27 Further, apare, others; juhvati, offer, i.e. merge; sarvani, all; indriya-karmani, the activities of the organs; and also the prana-karmani, activities of the vital force- prana means the air in the body; they offer its activities such as contraction, expansion, etc; atma-samyama yoga-agnau, into the fire of the yoga of self-control-withdrawal (samyama) [Samyama consists of concentration, meditation, and Self-absorption. The idea conveyed by the verse is that by stopping all activities, they concentrate the mind on the Self.] into the Self (atma) is self-control (atma-samyama); that itself is the fire of yoga (yoga-agni); (they offer) into that fire; jnana-dipite, which has been lighted by Knowledge, made to blaze up by discriminating knowledge, as if lighted up by oil.
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
4.27 Some again offer as oblations all the functions of the senses, the activities of the vital breath etc., into the fire of Yoga of restraint of the mind kindled by knowledge. They endeavour to prevent the mind from getting attached to the functions of the senses and vital breaths. That is, by contemplating on the self they sublimate these energies and overcome even the lurking subtle desires for them.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship
4.27 See Comment under 4.28
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।4.27।। दिव्य सत्य के ज्ञान के द्वारा अहंकार को संयमित करने को यहां आत्मसंयम योग कहा गया है।आत्मानात्मविवेक के द्वारा परिच्छिन्न संसारी अहंकार से अपरिच्छिन्न आनन्दस्वरूप आत्मा को विलग करके उसमें ही दृढ़ स्थिति प्राप्त करने के अभ्यास का अर्थ ही आत्मा के द्वारा अहंकार को संयमित करना है। इसे ही आत्मसंयम कहते हैं। इस साधना के द्वारा कर्मेन्द्रियों एवं ज्ञानेन्द्रियों के अनियन्त्रित व्यापार को नियन्त्रित किया जा सकता है।इस प्रकार पांच यज्ञों का वर्णन करने के पश्चात् भगवान् अगले श्लोक में पाँच और साधनाएँ बताते हैं मानो वे अर्जुन को यह समझाना चाहते हों कि इस प्रकार की सैकड़ो साधनाएं बतायी जा सकती हैं।
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।।4.27।। व्याख्या--'सर्वाणीन्द्रियकर्माणि प्राणकर्माणि चापरे'--इस श्लोकमें समाधिको यज्ञका रूप दिया गया है। कुछ योगीलोग दसों इन्द्रियोंकी क्रियाओंका समाधिमें हवन किया करते हैं। तात्पर्य यह है कि समाधि-अवस्थामें मन-बुद्धिसहित सम्पूर्ण इन्द्रियों-(ज्ञानेन्द्रियों और कर्मेन्द्रियों-) की क्रियाएँ रुक जाती हैं। इन्द्रियाँ सर्वथा निश्चल और शान्त हो जाती हैं।समाधिरूप यज्ञमें प्राणोंकी क्रियाओँका भी हवन हो जाता है अर्थात् समाधिकालमें प्राणोंकी क्रियाएँ भी रुक जाती हैं। समाधिमें प्राणोंकी गति रोकनेके दो प्रकार हैं--एक तो हठयोगकी समाधि होती है, जिसमें प्राणोंको रोकनेके लिये कुम्भक किया जाता है। कुम्भकका अभ्यास बढ़ते-बढ़ते प्राण रुक जाते हैं, जो घंटोंतक, दिनोंतक रुके रह सकते हैं। इस प्राणायामसे आयु बढ़ती है; जैसे--वर्षा होनेपर जल बहने लगता है तो जलके साथ-साथ बालू भी आ जाती है, उस बालूमें मेढक दब जाता है। वर्षा बीतनेपर जब बालू सूख जाती है, तब मेढक उस बालूमें ही चुपचाप सूखे हुएकी तरह पड़ा रहता है, उसके प्राण रुक जाते हैं। पुनः जब वर्षा आती है तब वर्षाका जल ऊपर गिरनेपर मेढकमें पुनः प्राणोंका संचार होता जाता है और वह टर्राने लग जाता है।दूसरे प्रकारमें मनको एकाग्र किया जाता है। मन सर्वथा एकाग्र होनेपर प्राणोंकी गति अपने-आप रुक जाती है।
🪷 Place in the Bhagavad-Gītā
- This is verse 27 of 42 in Chapter 4 · Jñāna-Karma-Sannyāsa-Yoga (The Yoga of Knowledge & Action-Renunciation)
- Chapter theme: Daśāvatāra · 12 yajñas · yadā yadā hi dharmasya (BG 4.7)
- 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)