🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 6.20

Chapter 6 · ध्यानयोग · Dhyāna-Yoga · "The Yoga of Meditation" · Verse 20 of 47

यत्रोपरमते चित्तं निरुद्धं योगसेवया।

यत्र चैवात्मनाऽऽत्मानं पश्यन्नात्मनि तुष्यति।।6.20।।
— Bhagavad-Gītā 6.20 · Devanāgarī root text

🪷 English Translations

5 received English translations are available for this śloka. Each voice is labelled; no single rendering is presented as the Sanskrit itself.

Shri Purohit Swami · Poetic English · 1935 edition attribution in the received data
6.20 There, where the whole nature is seen in the light of the Self, where the man abides within his Self and is satisfied there, its functions restrained by its union with the Divine, the mind finds rest.
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
6.20 When the mind, restrained by the practice of Yoga attains to quietude and when seeing the Self by the self, he is satisfied in his own Self.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
6.20 Yatra, at the time when; cittam, the mind; niruddham, restrained, entirely prevented from wandering; uparamate, gets withdrawn; yoga-sevaya, through the practice of Yoga; ca, and; yatra eva, just when, at the very moment when; pasyan, by seeing, by experiencing; atmanam, the Self, which by nature is the supreme light of Consciousness; atmana, by the self, by the mind purified by concentration; tusyati, one remains contented, gets delighted; atmani eva, in one's own Self alone-. [Samadhi is of two kinds, Samprajnata and Asamprajnata. The concentration called right knowledge (Samprajnata) is that which is followed by reasoning, discrimination, blisss and unqualified egoism. Asamprajnata is that which is attained by the constant practice of cessation of all mental activity, in which the citta retains only the unmanifested impressions.-Cf. C. W., Vol. I, 1962, pp. 210, 212. According to A.G. the verses upto 6.20 state in a general way the characteristics of samadhi. From the present verse to the 25th, Asamprajnata-samadhi is introduced and defined.-Tr.] Besides,
Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school
6.20 - 6.23 Where, through the practice of Yoga, the mind, which is subdued everywhere by such practice, 'rejoices', i.e., rejoices in surpassing felicity; and where, perceiving through Yoga 'the self (Atman)' by 'the mind (Atman)' one is delighted by the self and indifferent to all other objects; and where, through Yoga, one 'knows', i.e., experiences that infinite happiness which can be grasped only by the 'intellect' contemplating on the self, but is beyond the grasp of the senses; where, remaining in that Yoga, one does not 'swerve from that state,' because of the overwhelming happiness that state confers; having gained which, he desires for it alone, even when he is awakened from Yoga, and does not hold anything else as a gain; where one is not moved even by 'the heaviest sorrow' caused by any berevaement like that of a virtuous son - let him know that disunion from all union with pain, i.e., which forms the opposite of union with pain, is called by the term Yoga. This Yoga must be practised with the determination of its nature as such from the beginning with a mind free from despondency, i.e., with zestful exaltation.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly
6.20. Where the mind, well-restrained through Yoga-practice, remains iet; again where, observing, by the self, nothing but the Self, he (Yogi) is satisfied in the Self;

🪷 Hindi Translation · हिन्दी अनुवाद

Received Hindi rendering attributed in the source data to Swami Rāmsukhdās ji.

🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Hindi rendering · source-data attribution
।।6.20।। योगका सेवन करनेसे जिस अवस्थामें निरुद्ध चित्त उपराम हो जाता है तथा जिस अवस्थामें स्वयं अपने-आप से अपने-आपको देखता हुआ अपने-आपमें ही सन्तुष्ट हो जाता है।

🪷 English Commentaries · The Ācārya Voices

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Swami Sivananda · Verse-by-verse word-keys with Sanskrit anchors
6.20 यत्र where? उपरमते attains ietude? चित्तम् mind? निरुद्धम् restrained? योगसेवया by the practice of Yoga? यत्र where? च and? एव only? आत्मना by the Self? आत्मानम् the Self? पश्यन् seeing? आत्मनि in the Self? तुष्यति is satisfied.Commentary The verses 20? 21? 22 and 23 must be taken together.When the mind is completely withdrawn from the objects of the senses? supreme peace reigns within the heart. When the mind becomes ite steady by constant and protracted practice of concentration the Yogi beholds the Supreme Self by the mind which is rendered pure and onepointed and attains to supreme satisfaction in the Self within.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
6.20 Yatra, at the time when; cittam, the mind; niruddham, restrained, entirely prevented from wandering; uparamate, gets withdrawn; yoga-sevaya, through the practice of Yoga; ca, and; yatra eva, just when, at the very moment when; pasyan, by seeing, by experiencing; atmanam, the Self, which by nature is the supreme light of Consciousness; atmana, by the self, by the mind purified by concentration; tusyati, one remains contented, gets delighted; atmani eva, in one's own Self alone-. [Samadhi is of two kinds, Samprajnata and Asamprajnata. The concentration called right knowledge (Samprajnata) is that which is followed by reasoning, discrimination, blisss and unqualified egoism. Asamprajnata is that which is attained by the constant practice of cessation of all mental activity, in which the citta retains only the unmanifested impressions.-Cf. C. W., Vol. I, 1962, pp. 210, 212. According to A.G. the verses upto 6.20 state in a general way the characteristics of samadhi. From the present verse to the 25th, Asamprajnata-samadhi is introduced and defined.-Tr.] Besides,
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
6.20 - 6.23 Where, through the practice of Yoga, the mind, which is subdued everywhere by such practice, 'rejoices', i.e., rejoices in surpassing felicity; and where, perceiving through Yoga 'the self (Atman)' by 'the mind (Atman)' one is delighted by the self and indifferent to all other objects; and where, through Yoga, one 'knows', i.e., experiences that infinite happiness which can be grasped only by the 'intellect' contemplating on the self, but is beyond the grasp of the senses; where, remaining in that Yoga, one does not 'swerve from that state,' because of the overwhelming happiness that state confers; having gained which, he desires for it alone, even when he is awakened from Yoga, and does not hold anything else as a gain; where one is not moved even by 'the heaviest sorrow' caused by any berevaement like that of a virtuous son - let him know that disunion from all union with pain, i.e., which forms the opposite of union with pain, is called by the term Yoga. This Yoga must be practised with the determination of its nature as such from the beginning with a mind free from despondency, i.e., with zestful exaltation.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship
6.20 See Comment under 6.23
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।6.20।। No commentary.

🪷 Hindi Vyākhyā · हिन्दी व्याख्या

Received Hindi vyākhyā attributed in the source data to Swami Rāmsukhdās ji.

🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Hindi vyākhyā · source-data attribution
।।6.20।। व्याख्या--'यत्रोपरमते चित्तं ৷৷. पश्यन्नात्मनि तुष्यति'--ध्यानयोगमें पहले 'मनको केवल स्वरूपमें ही लगाना है' यह धारणा होती है। ऐसी धारणा होनेके बाद स्वरूपके सिवाय दूसरी कोई वृत्ति पैदा हो भी जाय, तो उसकी उपेक्षा करके उसे हटा देने और चित्तको केवल स्वरूपमें ही लगानेसे जब मनका प्रवाह केवल स्वरूपमें ही लग जाता है, तब उसको ध्यान कहते हैं। ध्यानके समय ध्याता, ध्यान और ध्येय--यह त्रिपुटी रहती है अर्थात् साधक ध्यानके समय अपनेको ध्याता (ध्यान करनेवाला) मानता है, स्वरूपमें तद्रूप होनेवाली वृत्तिको ध्यान मानता है और साध्यरूप स्वरूपको ध्येय मानता है। तात्पर्य है कि जबतक इन तीनोंका अलग-अलग ज्ञान रहता है, तबतक वह 'ध्यान' कहलाता है। ध्यानमें ध्येयकी मुख्यता होनेके कारण साधक पहले अपनेमें ध्यातापना भूल जाता है। फिर ध्यानकी वृत्ति भी भूल जाता है। अन्तमें केवल ध्येय ही जाग्रत् रहता है। इसको 'समाधि' कहते हैं। यह 'संप्रज्ञातसमाधि' है जो चित्तकी एकाग्र अवस्थामें होती है। इस समाधिके दीर्घकालके अभ्याससे फिर 'असंप्रज्ञात-समाधि' होती है। इन दोनों समाधियोंमें भेद यह है कि जबतक ध्येय, ध्येयका नाम और नाम-नामीका सम्बन्ध--ये तीनों चीजें रहती हैं, तबतक वह 'संप्रज्ञात-समाधि' होती है। इसीको चित्तकी 'एकाग्र' अवस्था कहते हैं। परन्तु जब नामकी स्मृति न रहकर केवल नामी (ध्येय) रह जाता है, तब वह 'असंप्रज्ञात-समाधि' होती है। इसीको चित्तकी 'निरुद्ध' अवस्था कहते हैं।निरुद्ध अवस्थाकी समाधि दो तरहकी होती है--सबीज और निर्बीज। जिसमें संसारकी सूक्ष्म वासना रहती है, वह 'सबीज समाधि' कहलाती है। सूक्ष्म वासनाके कारण सबीज समाधिमें सिद्धियाँ प्रकट हो जाती हैं। ये सिद्धियाँ सांसारिक दृष्टिसे तो ऐश्वर्य हैं, पर पारमार्थिक दृष्टिसे (चेतन-तत्त्वकी प्राप्तिमें) विघ्न हैं। ध्यानयोगी जब इन सिद्धियोंको निस्तत्त्व समझकर इनसे उपराम हो जाता है, तब उसकी 'निर्बीज समाधि' होती है, जिसका यहाँ (इस श्लोकमें)

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