🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 5.25
Chapter 5 · कर्मसंन्यासयोग · Karma-Sannyāsa-Yoga · "The Yoga of Action-Renunciation" · Verse 25 of 29
🪷 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
5.25 Sages whose sins have been washed away, whose sense of separateness has vanished, who have subdued themselves, and seek only the welfare of all, come to the Eternal Spirit.
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
5.25 The sages (Rishis) obtain absolute freedom or Moksha they whose sins have been destroyed, whose dualities (perception of dualities or experience of the pairs of opposites) are torn asunder, who are self-controlled, and intent on the welfare of all beings.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
5.25 Rsayah, the seers, those who have full realization, the monks; ksina-kalmasah, whose sins, defects like sin etc., have been attenuated; chinna-dvaidhah, who are freed from doubt; yata-atmanah, whose organs are under control; ratah, who are engaged; sarvabhutahite, in doing good to all beings-favourably disposed towards all, i.e. harmless; labhante, attain; brahma-nirvanam, absorption in Brahman, Liberation.
Further,
Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school
5.25 The sages are seers who are devoted to the vision of the self. For them the pairs of opposites are annulled; i.e., they are freed from pairs of opposites like cold and heat, etc. 'They have their minds well subdued,' i.e., their minds are directed to the self. 'They are devoted to the welfare of all beings,' i.e., they are interested in the welfare of all beings like their own selves. Those persons who are like this have all their impurities, which are incompatible with the attainment of the self, annulled, and they attain to the bliss of the Brahman.
For those possessing the characteristics mentioned above, Sri Krsna now teaches that the Brahman is easy to attain.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly
5.25. At all times there is the tranil Brahman for the ascetics who have severed their connection with desire and anger, who have controlled their mind and have realised their Self.
🪷 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
5.25 लभन्ते obtain? ब्रह्मनिर्वाणम् absolute freedom? ऋषयः the Rishis? क्षीणकल्मषाः those whose sins are destroyed? छिन्नद्वैधाः whose dualities are torn asunder? यतात्मानः those who are selfcontrolled? सर्वभूतहिते in the welfare of all beings? रताः rejoicing.Commentary Sins are destroyed by the performance of Agnihotra (a daily obligatoyr ritual) and other Yajnas (vide notes on verse III. 13) without expectation of their fruits and by other selfless services. The duties vanish by constant meditation on the nondual Brahman. He never hurts others in thought? word and deed? and he is devoted to the welfare of all beings as he feels that all beings are but his own Self. (Cf.XII.4)
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
5.25 Rsayah, the seers, those who have full realization, the monks; ksina-kalmasah, whose sins, defects like sin etc., have been attenuated; chinna-dvaidhah, who are freed from doubt; yata-atmanah, whose organs are under control; ratah, who are engaged; sarvabhutahite, in doing good to all beings-favourably disposed towards all, i.e. harmless; labhante, attain; brahma-nirvanam, absorption in Brahman, Liberation.
Further,
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
5.25 The sages are seers who are devoted to the vision of the self. For them the pairs of opposites are annulled; i.e., they are freed from pairs of opposites like cold and heat, etc. 'They have their minds well subdued,' i.e., their minds are directed to the self. 'They are devoted to the welfare of all beings,' i.e., they are interested in the welfare of all beings like their own selves. Those persons who are like this have all their impurities, which are incompatible with the attainment of the self, annulled, and they attain to the bliss of the Brahman.
For those possessing the characteristics mentioned above, Sri Krsna now teaches that the Brahman is easy to attain.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship
5.25 Labhante etc. This [goal] is however possible to attain for those in whom the double knots in the form of dualism and doubt have been cut off.
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।5.25।। जितेन्द्रिय होकर जब मनुष्य ध्यानभ्यास करता है तब वह अपने मन की सभी पापपूर्ण वासनाओं को धो डालता है जिन्होनें आत्मस्वरूप को आवृत्त कर रखा है और जिसके कारण सत्य के विषय में असंख्य संशय उत्पन्न होते हैं। मन के शुद्ध होने पर आत्मानुभव भी सहजसिद्ध हो जाता है। आत्मज्ञान का उदय होने के साथ ही आवरण और विक्षेप रूप अज्ञान की आत्यंतिक निवृत्ति होकर स्वरूप में अवस्थान प्राप्त हो जाता है।विकास के सर्वोच्च शिखरआत्मस्थिति को प्राप्त करने के पश्चात् देह त्याग तक ज्ञानी पुरुष का क्या कर्तव्य होता है इस विषय में सामान्य धारणा यह है कि वह जगत् में विक्षिप्त के समान अथवा पाषाण प्रतिमा के समान रहेगा दिन में कमसेकम एक बार भोजन करेगा और घूमता रहेगा। लोग ऐसे पुरुष को समाज पर भार समझते हैं। परन्तु वेदों में मनुष्य के लिए कोई जीवित प्रेत का लक्ष्य नहीं बताया गया है और न ऋषियों ने किसी ऐसे लक्ष्य की प्राप्ति के लिए प्रयत्न किया है।आत्मसाक्षात्कार कोई दैवनिर्धारित शवगर्त की ओर धीरेधीरे बढ़ने वाला दुखद संचलन नहीं वरन् सत्य के राजप्रासाद तक पहँचने की सुखद यात्रा है। यह सत्य जीव का स्वयं सिद्ध स्वरूप ही है जिसके अज्ञान से वह अपने से ही दूर भटक गया था। आत्मानुभव में स्थित ज्ञानी पुरुष का सम्पूर्ण जीवन मनुष्यों का आत्म अज्ञान दूर करने और आत्मवैभव को प्रकट करने में समर्पित होता है। इसका संकेत भगवान् के शब्दों में सर्वभूत हिते रता के द्वारा किया गया है।यह लोक सेवा उसका स्वनिर्धारित कार्य और मनोरंजन दोनों ही है। उपाधियों के द्वारा सब की सेवा में अपने को समर्पित करते हुए ज्ञानी पुरुष स्वयं अपने शुद्ध स्वरूप में स्थित रहता है।भगवान् आगे कहते हैं
🪷 Place in the Bhagavad-Gītā
- This is verse 25 of 29 in Chapter 5 · Karma-Sannyāsa-Yoga (The Yoga of Action-Renunciation)
- Chapter theme: Sama-darśana · the body as nine-gated city · seer beyond doer
- 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)