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सर्वभूतस्थितं यो मां भजत्येकत्वमास्थितः।

सर्वथा वर्तमानोऽपि स योगी मयि वर्तते।।6.31।।
Bhagavad-Gītā 6.31 · the yathārtha śloka (Devanāgarī Sanskrit · canonical)

🪷 English Translations

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Shri Purohit Swami · Poetic English · 1935 · public domain · Cosmo Press tradition
6.31 The sage who realises the unity of life and who worships Me in all beings, lives in Me, whatever may be his lot.
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
6.31 He who, being established in unity, worships Me Who dwells in all beings, that Yogi abides in Me, whatever may be his mode of living.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
6.31 This being so, i.e. after reiterating (in the first line of the present verse) the idea of full realization contained in the previous verse, the result of that (realization), viz Liberation, is being spoken of (in the second line): The yogi, the man of full realization; vartate, exists; mayi, in Me, in the supreme state of Visnu; sarvatha api, in whatever condition; vartamanah, he may be. He is verily ever-free. The idea is that he is not obstructed from Liberation by anything. Furthermore,
Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school
6.31 (iii) The Yogin who, fixed in the state of Yoga in oneness because he has the same form of uncontracted knowledge (as Myself), worships Me steadfastly by renouncing the differences of the Prakrti (i.e., of the body) - then that Yogin, even while coming out of Yoga, howsoever he may live, views Me only, when viewing his own self and all other beings. The meaning is that he views his similarity to Myself in his own self and in the self of all beings. Now Sri Krsna proceeds to speak of the maturest stage beyond this:
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly
6.31. He, who, established firmly in the oneness (of Me), experiences Me immanent in all beings-that man of Yoga, is never stained, in whatever stage he may be.

🪷 Hindi Translation · हिन्दी अनुवाद

For the Hindi-aware seer · Pūjya Swami Rāmsukhdās ji's translation · a high-readability modern Hindi rendering · Gītā-Press Gorakhpur tradition. (→ Full Mahāpurusha-detail page for the 102-year-living Sādhaka-Sañjīvanī Mahātmā.)

🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Sādhaka-Sañjīvanī tradition · Gītā-Press Gorakhpur · highest modern Hindi reading
।।6.31।। मेरेमें एकीभावसे स्थित हुआ जो योगी सम्पूर्ण प्राणियोंमें स्थित मेरा भजन करता है, वह सब कुछ बर्ताव करता हुआ भी मेरेमें ही बर्ताव कर रहा है अर्थात् वह सर्वथा मेरेमें ही स्थित है।

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Swami Sivananda · Verse-by-verse word-keys with Sanskrit anchors
6.31 सर्वभूतस्थितम् abiding in all beings? यः who? माम् Me? भजति worships? एकत्वम् unity? आस्थितः established? सर्वथा in every way? वर्तमानः remaining? अपि also? सः that? योगी Yogi? मयि in Me? वर्तते abides.Commentary He who has dissolved all duality in the underlying unity? who is thus established in unity? who worships Me? i.e.? who has realised Me as the Self of all? dwells always in Me? whatever his mode of living may be. He is ever liberated.Sadana lived in God though he was a butcher because his mind was ever fixed at the lotus feet of the Lord.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
6.31 This being so, i.e. after reiterating (in the first line of the present verse) the idea of full realization contained in the previous verse, the result of that (realization), viz Liberation, is being spoken of (in the second line): The yogi, the man of full realization; vartate, exists; mayi, in Me, in the supreme state of Visnu; sarvatha api, in whatever condition; vartamanah, he may be. He is verily ever-free. The idea is that he is not obstructed from Liberation by anything. Furthermore,
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
6.31 (iii) The Yogin who, fixed in the state of Yoga in oneness because he has the same form of uncontracted knowledge (as Myself), worships Me steadfastly by renouncing the differences of the Prakrti (i.e., of the body) - then that Yogin, even while coming out of Yoga, howsoever he may live, views Me only, when viewing his own self and all other beings. The meaning is that he views his similarity to Myself in his own self and in the self of all beings. Now Sri Krsna proceeds to speak of the maturest stage beyond this:
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship
6.31 Sarva - etc. Whosoever is completely possessed of the knowledge of this kind, he necessarily realises the Bhagavat as one and immanent in all and does not get stained [by any of his actions] is whatever condition he is.
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।6.31।। समाहित चित्त का योगी निरन्तर मेरा अनुसंधान करता है (भजता है)। फलत बाह्य जगत् में सब प्रकार के व्यवहार करता हुआ भी वह मुझमें ही स्थित रहता है। इस श्लोक का मुख्य प्रयोजन यह दर्शाना है कि कोई आवश्यक नहीं कि एक आत्मानुभवी पुरुष हिमालय की किसी अज्ञात गुफा में जाकर निवृत्ति का जीवन व्यतीत करेगा। भगवान् कहते हैं कि जीवन के समस्त सामान्य व्यवहार करता हुआ सभी परिस्थितियों में वह अपने स्वरूप के ज्ञान में स्थित रह सकता है। जब मनुष्य रोगी हो जाता है तब उसे नित्य के कार्यों से निवृत्त होकर चिकित्सालय में रहने की आवश्यकता होती है परन्तु पूर्ण स्वस्थ हो जाने के पश्चात् नहीं। स्वस्थ होकर तो वह पुन अधिक उत्साह के साथ अपना कार्य करने लगता है।इसी प्रकार विघटित व्यक्तित्व के पुरुष के लिए ध्यानसाघना का उपचार बताया जाता है। उसके अभ्यास से जब वह स्वस्वरूप को पहचान कर दैवी सार्मथ्य प्राप्त कर लेता है तब वह निश्चय ही अपने पूर्व के कार्य क्षेत्र में जाकर कर्म करते हुए भी पूर्णत्व के ज्ञान को सुदृढ़ बनाये रख सकता है।वास्तव में देखा जाय तो चिरस्थायी फलदायी कर्म कुशलतापूर्वक तभी किये जा सकते हैं जब कर्ता आत्मस्वरूप के ज्ञान में स्थित हो। गीता का यही संदेश है कि समर्पण की भावना से किये गये कर्म आत्मोन्नति के साधन हैंयहाँ ध्यान देने की बात है कि श्रीकृष्ण संभवत अर्जुन की अपेक्षा स्वयं को ही युद्ध की विपत्तियों में अधिक डाल रहे थे। रथ में बैठे योद्धा तक पहुँचने के पूर्व प्रतिपक्षी के बाण सारथि पर पहले प्रहार करते हैं। केवल समस्त संसार को मुग्ध कर देने वाली मन्द स्मिति के अतिरिक्त किसी अन्य शस्त्र को न लेकर श्रीकृष्ण ने युद्धभूमि में प्रवेश किया था। तत्पश्चात् वे ही सम्पूर्ण युद्ध के स्वामी और केन्द्र बिन्दु बने रहे और सम्पूर्ण महायुद्ध का घटनाचक्र उनके ही चारों तरफ घूमता रहा। इसका अर्थ यह हुआ कि आत्मज्ञानी पुरुष किसी भी कार्यक्षेत्र में कर्म करते हुए भी अपने वास्तविक स्वरूप का भान रख सकता है।इस व्याख्या का अध्ययन करते समय हो सकता है कोई पाठक यह समझे कि अत्याधिक उत्साह के कारण हम इस श्लोक में कुछ अधिक अर्थ देख रहे हैं। परन्तु उन्हें सर्वथा वर्तमानोऽपि इस शब्द पर ध्यान देते हुए अधिक विचार करना चाहिए।

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।।6.31।। व्याख्या--'एकत्वमास्थितः' पूर्वश्लोकमें भगवान्ने बताया था कि जो मेरेको सबमें और सबको मेरेमें देखता है, उसके लिये मैं अदृश्य नहीं होता और वह मेरे लिये अदृश्य नहीं होता। अदृश्य क्यों नहीं होता? कारण कि सम्पूर्ण प्राणियोंमें स्थित मेरे साथ उसकी अभिन्नता हो गयी है अर्थात् मेरे साथ उसका अत्यधिक प्रेम हो गया है। अद्वैत-सिद्धान्तमें तो स्वरूपसे एकता होती है, पर यहाँ वैसी एकता नहीं है। यहाँ द्वैत होते हुए भी अभिन्नता है अर्थात् भगवान् और भक्त दीखनेमें तो दो हैं, पर वास्तवमें एक ही हैं (टिप्पणी प0 365)। जैसे पति और पत्नी दो शरीर होते हुए भी अपनेको अभिन्न मानते हैं, दो मित्र अपनेको एक ही मानते हैं; क्योंकि अत्यन्त स्नेह होनेके कारण वहाँ द्वैतपना नहीं रहता। ऐसे ही जो भक्तियोगका साधक भगवान्को प्राप्त हो जाता है, भगवान्में अत्यन्त स्नेह होनेके कारण उसकी भगवान्से अभिन्नता हो जाती है। इसी अभिन्नताको यहाँ 'एकत्वमास्थितः' पदसे बताया गया है। 'सर्वभूतस्थितं यो मां भजति'--सब देश, काल, वस्तु, व्यक्ति, घटना, परिस्थिति आदिमें भगवान् ही परिपूर्ण हैं अर्थात् सम्पूर्ण चराचर जगत् भगवत्स्वरूप ही है--'वासुदेवः सर्वम्' (7। 19)--यही उसका भजन है।

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