🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 6.43

Chapter 6 · ध्यानयोग · Dhyāna-Yoga · "The Yoga of Meditation" · Verse 43 of 47

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🪷 English Translations

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Shri Purohit Swami · Poetic English · 1935 · public domain · Cosmo Press tradition

6.43 Then the experience acquired in his former life will revive, and with its help he will strive for perfection more eagerly than before.

Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society

6.43 Thee he comes in touch with the knowledge acired in his former body and strives more than before for perfection, O Arjuna.

Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school

6.43 Tatra, there, in the family of yogis; labhate, tam buddhisamyogam, he becomes endowed with that wisdom; paurva-dehikam, acired in the previous body. And yatate, he strives; bhuyah, more intensely; tatah, than before, more intensely than that tendency acired in the previous birth; samsiddau, for, for the sake of, perfection; kuru-nandana, O scion of the Kuru dynasty. How does he become endowed with the wisdom acired in the previous body? That is being answered:

Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school

6.43 - 6.44 There, in that existence, he regains the mental disposition for Yoga that he had in the previous birth. Like one awakened from sleep, he strives again from where he had left before attaining complete success. He strives so as not to be defeated by impediments. This person who has fallen away from Yoga is borne on towards Yoga alone by his previous practice, i.e., by the older practice with regard to Yoga. This power of Yoga is well known. Even a person, who has not engaged in Yoga but has only been desirous of knowing Yoga, i.e., has failed to follow it up, acries once again the same desire to practise Yoga. He then practises Yoga, of which the first stage is Karma Yoga, and transcends Sabda-brahman (or Brahman which is denotable by words). The Sabda-brahman is the Brahman capable of manifesting as gods, men, earth, sky, heaven etc., namely, Prakrti. The meaning is that having been liberated from the bonds of Prakrti, he attains the self which is incapable of being named by such words as gods, men etc., and which comprises solely of knowledge and beatitude. After thus describing the glory of Yoga the verse says:

Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly

6.43. There in that life, he gains (regains) that link of mentality transmitted from his former body. Conseently once again he strives for a full success, O rejoicer of the Kurus !

🪷 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

।।6.43।। हे कुरुनन्दन ! वहाँपर उसको पूर्वजन्मकृत साधन-सम्पत्ति अनायास ही प्राप्त हो जाती है। फिर उससे वह साधनकी सिद्धिके विषयमें पुनः विशेषतासे यत्न करता है।

🪷 English Commentaries · The Ācārya Voices

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Swami Sivananda · Verse-by-verse word-keys with Sanskrit anchors

6.43 तत्र there? तम् that? बुद्धिसंयोगम् union with knowledge? लभते obtains? पौर्वदेहिकम् acired in his fomer body? यतते strives? च and? ततः than that? भूयः more? संसिद्धौ for perfection? कुरुनन्दन O son of the Kurus.Commentary When he takes a human body again in this world his previous exertions and practice in the path of Yoga are not wasted. They bear full fruit now? and hasten his moral and spiritual evolution.Our thoughts and actions are left in our subconscious minds in the form of subtle Samskaras or impressions. Our experiences in the shape of Samskaras? habits and tendencies are also stored up in our subconscious mind. These Samskaras of the past birth are revivified and reenergised in the next birth. The Samskaras of Yogic practices and meditation and the Yogic tendencies will compel the spiritual aspirant to strive with greater vigour than that with which he attempted in the former birth. He will endeavour more strenuously to get more spiritual experiences and to attain to higher planes of realisation than those acired in his previous birth.

Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)

Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary

Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship

6.43 See Comment under 6.45

Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching

।।6.43।। किसी को यह आशंका हो सकती है कि पुनर्जन्म लेने पर उस साधक को पुन प्रारम्भ से साधना का अभ्यास करना पड़ेगा। यह आशंका निर्मूल है। भगवान् कहते हैं कि योग के अनुकूल वातावरण में जन्म लेने के पश्चात् वह पुरुष पूर्व देह में अर्जित ज्ञान से सम्पन्न हो जाता है जिनके कारण अन्य लोगों की अपेक्षा वह अपनी शिक्षा अधिक सरलता से पूर्ण कर लेता है। कारण यह है कि उसके लिए यह कोई नवीन अध्ययन नहीं वरन् पूर्वार्जित ज्ञान की मात्र पुनरावृत्ति या सिंहावलोकन ही होता है। अल्पकाल में ही वह अपने हृदय में ही ज्ञान को सिद्ध होते हुए देखता है जो अव्यक्त रूप में पूर्व से ही निहित था।इतना ही नहीं कि वह पौर्वदेहिक ज्ञान से युक्त होता है किन्तु वह फिर संसिद्धि के लिए पूर्व से भी अधिक प्रयत्न करता है। उसमें उत्साह क्षमता तथा प्रयत्न की कमी नहीं होती। प्रयत्न रहित ज्ञान साधक के लिए दुखदायी भार ही बनता है। भगवान् श्रीकृष्ण कहते हैं कि हे कुरुनन्दन योगभ्रष्ट पुरुष संसिद्धि के लिए और भी अधिक प्रयत्न करता है।पौर्वदेहिक बुद्धि संयोग का प्रभाव बताते हुये कहते हैं

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।।6.43।। व्याख्या--'तत्र तं बुद्धिसंयोगं लभते पौर्वदेहिकम्'--तत्त्वज्ञ जीवन्मुक्त महापुरुषोंके कुलमें जन्म होनेके बाद उस वैराग्यवान् साधककी क्या दशा होती है? इस बातको बतानेके लिये यहाँ 'तत्र' पद आया है।

🪷 Place in the Bhagavad-Gītā

This is verse 43 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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⭐ Mahābhārata anchor: this verse is also MBh 6.28.43 (Bhīṣma-Parva · the BG in its full narrative home)

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