🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 6.24
Chapter 6 · ध्यानयोग · Dhyāna-Yoga · "The Yoga of Meditation" · Verse 24 of 47
🪷 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
6.24 Renouncing every desire which imagination can conceive, controlling the senses at every point by the power of mind;
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
6.24 Abandoning without reserve all desires born of Sankalpa (thought and imagination) and completely restraining the whole group of the senses by the mind from all sides.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
6.24 See Commentary under 6.25
Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school
6.24 - 6.25 There are two kinds of desires: 1) those born of contact between the senses and objects like heat, cold etc.; 2) those generated by our mind (will) like that for sons, land etc. Of these, the latter type of desires are by their own nature relinishable. Relinishing all these by the mind through contemplation on their lack of association with the self; having relinished the ideas of pleasure and pain in respect of unavoidable desires resulting from contract; restraining all the senses on all sides, i.e., from contact with all their objects - one should think of nothing else, i.e., other than the self. Little by little 'with the help of intellect controlled by firm resolution,' i.e., by the power of discrimination, one should think of nothing else, having fixed the mind on the self.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly
6.24. In order ot renounce completely all desires that are born of intention, let a person, restraining the group of sense-organs from all sides by mind alone;
🪷 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
।।6.24।। संकल्पसे उत्पन्न होनेवाली सम्पूर्ण कामनाओंका सर्वथा त्याग करके और मनसे ही इन्द्रिय-समूहको सभी ओरसे हटाकर।
🪷 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
6.24 सङ्कल्पप्रभवान् born of Sankalpa (imagination)? कामान् desires? त्यक्त्वा having abandoned? सर्वान् all? अशेषतः without reserve? मनसा by the mind? एव even? इन्द्रियग्रामम् the whole group of senses? विनियम्य completely restraining? समन्ततः from all sides.Commentary Without reserve The mind is so diplomatic that it keeps certain desires for its secret gratification. Therefore you should completely abandon all desires without reservation.Desire is born of imagination (Sankalpa). Therefore destroy the Sankalpa first. If the imagination is annihilated first then the desires will die by themselves. Mark here All the senses must be controlled from all sides by the mind. Even if one sense is turbulent in one direction it will distract the mind often and often. The senses will be absorbed in the mind by the constant practice of abstraction (Pratyahara). Then the mind will not think of the objects of sensepleasure and will become perfectly calm.That mind which is endowed with a strong discrimination and dispassion will be able to control the whole ground (or group) of the senses from their objects in all directions. Therefore cultivate strong Viveka or discrimination between the Real and the unreal and also Vairagya or total dispassion for sensual pleasures. (Cf.II.62)
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
6.24 See Commentary under 6.25
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
6.24 - 6.25 There are two kinds of desires: 1) those born of contact between the senses and objects like heat, cold etc.; 2) those generated by our mind (will) like that for sons, land etc. Of these, the latter type of desires are by their own nature relinishable. Relinishing all these by the mind through contemplation on their lack of association with the self; having relinished the ideas of pleasure and pain in respect of unavoidable desires resulting from contract; restraining all the senses on all sides, i.e., from contact with all their objects - one should think of nothing else, i.e., other than the self. Little by little 'with the help of intellect controlled by firm resolution,' i.e., by the power of discrimination, one should think of nothing else, having fixed the mind on the self.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship
6.24 See Comment under 6.25
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।6.24।। No commentary.
🪷 Hindi Vyākhyā · हिन्दी व्याख्या
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🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Sādhaka-Sañjīvanī · Hindi vyākhyā · the modern bilingual anchor
।।6.24।। व्याख्या--[जो स्थिति कर्मफलका त्याग करनेवाले कर्मयोगीकी होती है (6। 1 9), वही स्थिति सगुणसाकार भगवान्का ध्यान करनेवालेकी (6। 14 15) तथा अपने स्वरूपका ध्यान करनेवाले ध्यानयोगीकी भी होती है (6। 18 23)। अब निर्गुण-निराकारका ध्यान करनेवालेकी भी वही स्थिति होती है--यह बतानेके लिये भगवान् आगेका प्रकरण कहते हैं।]
🪷 Place in the Bhagavad-Gītā
- This is verse 24 of 47 in Chapter 6 · Dhyāna-Yoga (The Yoga of Meditation)
- Chapter theme: The yogī's discipline · abhyāsa-vairāgya · the supreme dhyāna-state
- Ṣaṭka grouping: TVAM-Ṣaṭka (BG 1-6 · the jīva)
- Chapter hub: /dhyana-yoga
🪷 ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय 🪷
सर्वम् कृष्णार्पणम् — this verse is one maṇi (jewel) on Krishna's thread (BG 7.7)