🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 6.30
Chapter 6 · ध्यानयोग · Dhyāna-Yoga · "The Yoga of Meditation" · Verse 30 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
6.30 He who sees Me in everything and everything in Me, him shall I never forsake, nor shall he lose Me.
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
6.30 He who sees Me everywhere and sees everything in Me, he never becomes separated from Me, nor do I become separated from him.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
6.30 Yah, one who; pasyati, sees; mam, Me, Vasudeva, who am the Self of all; sarvatra, in all things; ca, and; sees sarvam, all things, all created things, beginning from Brahma; mayi, in Me who am the Self of all;-aham, I who am God; na pranasyami, do not go out; tasya,of his vision-of one who has thus realized the unity of the Self; ca sah, and he also; na pranasyati, is not lost; me, to My vision. That man of realization does not get lost to Me, to Vasudeva, because of the indentity between him and Me, for that which is called one's own Self is surely dear to one, and since it is I alone who am the seer of the unity of the Self in all.
Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school
6.30 (ii) He who, having reached the highest stage of maturity, views similarity of nature with Me, i.e., sees similarity of all selves to Myself when They are freed from good and evil and when they remain in Their own essence, as declared in the Sruti, 'Stainless he attains supreme degree of eality' (Mun. U., 3.1.3); and 'sees Me in all selves and sees all selves in Me.' That is, on viewing one of Them (selves), one views another also to be the same, because of their similarity to one another. To him who perceives the nature of his own self, I am not lost on account of My similarity to him i.e., I do not become invisible to him. He (the Yogin) viewing his own self as similar to Me, always remains within My sight when I am viewing Myself, because of similarity of his self with Me.
Sri Krsna describes a still more mature steps (of Yoga):
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly
6.30. He who observes Me in all and observes all in Me-for him I am not lost and he too is not lost for me.
🪷 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
6.30 यः who? माम् Me? पश्यति sees? सर्वत्र everywhere? सर्वम् all? च and? मयि in Me? पश्यति sees? तस्य of him? अहम् I? न not? प्रणश्यामि vanish? सः he? च and? मे to Me? न not? प्रणश्यति vanishes.Commentary In this verse the Lord describes the effect of the vision of the unity of the Self or oneness.He who sees Me? the Self of all? in all beings? and everything (from Brahma the Creator down to the blade of grass) in Me? I am not lost to him? nor is he lost to Me. I and the sage or seer of unity of the Self become identical or one and the same. I never leave his presence nor does he leave My presence. I never lose hold of him nor does he lose hold of Me. I dwell in him and he dwells in Me.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
6.30 Yah, one who; pasyati, sees; mam, Me, Vasudeva, who am the Self of all; sarvatra, in all things; ca, and; sees sarvam, all things, all created things, beginning from Brahma; mayi, in Me who am the Self of all;-aham, I who am God; na pranasyami, do not go out; tasya,of his vision-of one who has thus realized the unity of the Self; ca sah, and he also; na pranasyati, is not lost; me, to My vision. That man of realization does not get lost to Me, to Vasudeva, because of the indentity between him and Me, for that which is called one's own Self is surely dear to one, and since it is I alone who am the seer of the unity of the Self in all.
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
6.30 (ii) He who, having reached the highest stage of maturity, views similarity of nature with Me, i.e., sees similarity of all selves to Myself when They are freed from good and evil and when they remain in Their own essence, as declared in the Sruti, 'Stainless he attains supreme degree of eality' (Mun. U., 3.1.3); and 'sees Me in all selves and sees all selves in Me.' That is, on viewing one of Them (selves), one views another also to be the same, because of their similarity to one another. To him who perceives the nature of his own self, I am not lost on account of My similarity to him i.e., I do not become invisible to him. He (the Yogin) viewing his own self as similar to Me, always remains within My sight when I am viewing Myself, because of similarity of his self with Me.
Sri Krsna describes a still more mature steps (of Yoga):
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship
6.30 Yo Mam etc. Loss : i.e., on account of serving no purpose [on the part of a thing]. For example : He who does not see the all-pervasive nature of the Supreme Self, from him the Supreme Self has fled away, because It does not reveal Its own nature. Further, this aggregate of objects, which is being perceived, remains settled down in the Supreme Self, which is the very nature of their illumination (being known). Now, whosoever fails to veiw the object as such, he gets lost from the naute of that Supreme Self. For, nothing shines without It. On the other hand, he who finds Me (the Supreme Consciousness) as immanent in all - for him I am not lost; because I appear [to him] in my own nature. [Again], when he perceives objects in Me-when his perceiverhood is complete on account of the possibility of illumination and manifestation of these objects due to This - then he is not lost for the Supreme Self.
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।6.30।। पहले यह कहा गया था कि ब्रह्मसंस्पर्श से योगी अत्यन्त सुख प्राप्त करता है। ब्रह्मसंस्पर्श से तात्पर्य आत्मा और ब्रह्म के एकत्व से है जो उपनिषदों का प्रतिपाद्य विषय है। इस ज्ञान को स्वयं भगवान् ही यहाँ स्पष्ट दर्शा रहे हैं। आत्मज्ञानी पुरुष सर्वत्र आत्मा का अनुभव करता है।जो मुझे सबमें और सब को मुझमें देखता है अन्य स्थानों के समान ही यहाँ प्रयुक्त मैं शब्द का अर्थ आत्मा है न कि देवकीपुत्र कृष्ण। इस व्याख्या के प्रकाश में जो पुरुष पूर्व श्लोक के साथ इस श्लोक को पढ़ेगा उसे प्रसिद्ध ईशावास्योपनिषद् की इस घोषणा का गूढ़ अर्थ स्पष्ट हो जायेगा ।वह मुझसे वियुक्त नहीं होता बुद्धि से अतीत आत्मा का अनुभव उससे भिन्न रहकर नहीं होता वरन् जीव पाता है कि वह स्वयं आत्मस्वरूप (शिवोऽहम्) है। स्वप्नद्रष्टा पुरुष जागने पर स्वयं जाग्रत् पुरुष बन जाता है वह जाग्रत् पुरुष को उससे भिन्न रहकर कभी नहीं जान सकता।और न मैं उससे वियुक्त होता हूँ द्वैतवादी लोग अपने जीवभाव और देहात्मभाव की दृढ़ता के कारण इस अद्वैत स्वरूप को स्वीकार नहीं कर पाते । जिस स्पष्टता से यहाँ जीव के दिव्य स्वरूप की घोषणा की गयी है उसे और अधिक स्पष्ट नहीं किया जा सकता। भगवान् श्रीकृष्ण यहाँ किसी भी प्रकार से इस तथ्य को गूढ़ और गोपन नहीं रखना चाहते कि अनात्म उपाधियों से तादात्म्य को त्यागने पर योगी स्वयं परमात्मस्वरूप बन जाता है। हो सकता है कि किन्हींकिन्हीं लोगों के लिए यह सत्य चौंका देने वाला हो तथापि है तो वह सत्य ही। जिन्हें इसे स्वीकार करने में संकोच होता हो वे अपने जीव भाव को ही दृढ़ बनाये रख सकते हैं। परन्तु भारत में गुरुओं की परम्परा ने तथा विश्व के अन्य अनुभवी सन्तों ने इसी सत्य की पुष्टि की है कि एक व्यक्ति के हृदय में स्थित आत्मा ही सर्वत्र नामरूपों में स्थित है।वर्तमान दशा में हम अपने आप से ही दूर हो चुके हैं अहंकार एक राजद्रोही है जिसने आत्मसाम्राज्य से स्वयं का निष्कासन कर लिया है। आत्मप्राप्ति पर अहंकार उसमें पूर्णतया विलीन हो जाता है। स्वप्नद्रष्टा के जागने पर वह जाग्रत् पुरुष से भिन्न नहीं रह सकता। भगवान् यहाँ कहते हैं कि साधक और मैं एक दूसरे से कभी वियुक्त नहीं होते।वास्तव में यदि हम यह समझ लेते हैं कि आत्मविस्मृति के कारण परमात्मा जीवभाव को प्राप्त सा हुआ है तो यह भी स्पष्ट हो जायेगा कि आत्मज्ञान के द्वारा जीव पुन परमात्मस्वरूप को प्राप्त हो सकता है। जैसे एक अभिनेता रंगमंच पर भिक्षुक का अभिनय करते हुए भी वास्तव में भिक्षुक नहीं बन जाता और नाटक की समाप्ति पर भिक्षुक के वेष को त्यागकर पुन स्वरूप को प्राप्त हो जाता है वैसे ही आत्मज्ञान के विषय में भी जीव का ब्रह्मरूप होना है। वेदान्त की यह साहसिक घोषणा समझनी कठिन नहीं है परन्तु सामान्य अज्ञानी जन इससे स्तब्ध होकर रह जाते हैं और अपने दोषों के कारण इस सत्य को स्वीकार नहीं कर पाते। उनमें इतना साहस और विश्वास नहीं कि वे दिव्य जीवन जीने का उत्तरदायित्व अपने ऊपर ले सकें। इस श्लोक में भगवान् का कथन परमार्थ सत्य के स्वरूप के संबंध में उपनिषदों के निष्कर्ष के विषय में रंचमात्र भी सन्देह नहीं रहने देता।पूर्व श्लोक में कथित सम्यक् दर्शन को पुन बताकर कहते हैं
🪷 Place in the Bhagavad-Gītā
- This is verse 30 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)
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सर्वम् कृष्णार्पणम् — this verse is one maṇi (jewel) on Krishna's thread (BG 7.7)