Sanskrit Corpus

yadā viniyataṃ cittamātmanyevāvatiṣṭhate । niḥspṛhaḥ sarvakāmebhyo yukta ityucyate tadā ॥

“When the restrained thought stands on the self alone, longing for no desires — then he is called yoked.”

yathā dīpo nivātastho neṅgate sopamā smṛtā । yogino yatacittasya yuñjato yogamātmanaḥ ॥

“As a lamp sheltered from wind does not flicker — that likeness is recalled for the seeker of restrained mind practising discipline of the self.”

yatroparamate cittaṃ niruddhaṃ yogasevayā । yatra caivātmanātmānaṃ paśyannātmani tuṣyati ॥

“Wherein thought, checked by practice of discipline, comes to rest, and wherein seeing the self by the self one is content in the self.”

sukhamātyantikaṃ yattadbuddhigrāhyamatīndriyam । vetti yatra na caivāyaṃ sthitaścalati tattvataḥ ॥

“Wherein one knows that utmost joy, grasped by thought, beyond the senses, and standing wherein one does not move from truth.”

yaṃ labdhvā cāparaṃ lābhaṃ manyate nādhikaṃ tataḥ । yasminsthito na duḥkhena guruṇāpi vicālyate ॥

“Winning which, one thinks no other gain greater than it, and standing wherein one is not shaken even by heavy pain.”

taṃ vidyādduḥkhasaṃyogaviyogaṃ yogasaṃjñitam । sa niścayena yoktavyo yogo'nirviṇṇacetasā ॥

“Let that parting from union with pain be known as called by the name of discipline; that discipline must be practised with resolve and an undismayed mind.”

saṃkalpaprabhavānkāmāṃstyaktvā sarvānaśeṣataḥ । manasaivendriyagrāmaṃ viniyamya samantataḥ ॥

“Abandoning all desires born of resolve without remainder, fully restraining the host of senses by the mind.”

śanaiḥ śanairuparamedbuddhyā dhṛtigṛhītayā । ātmasaṃsthaṃ manaḥ kṛtvā na kiṃcidapi cintayet ॥

“Little by little let him come to rest, with thought seized by resolve; making the mind fixed on the self, let him think of nothing at all.”

yato yato niścarati manaścañcalamasthiram । tatastato niyamyaitadātmanyeva vaśaṃ nayet ॥

“Wherever the fickle, unsteady mind wanders off, from there restraining it, let him bring it under the self's sway alone.”

praśāntamanasaṃ hyenaṃ yoginaṃ sukhamuttamam । upaiti śāntarajasaṃ brahmabhūtamakalmaṣam ॥

“For supreme joy comes to this seeker of calm mind, whose passion is stilled, become Brahman, stainless.”

yuñjannevaṃ sadātmānaṃ yogī vigatakalmaṣaḥ । sukhena brahmasaṃsparśamatyantaṃ sukhamaśnute ॥

“Thus ever yoking the self, the seeker rid of stains easily enjoys the utmost joy of touching Brahman.”

sarvabhūtasthamātmānaṃ sarvabhūtāni cātmani । īkṣate yogayuktātmā sarvatra samadarśanaḥ ॥

“With self yoked by discipline, seeing the same everywhere, he beholds the self abiding in all beings and all beings in the self.”

yo māṃ paśyati sarvatra sarvaṃ ca mayi paśyati । tasyāhaṃ na praṇaśyāmi sa ca me na praṇaśyati ॥

“Whoever sees Me everywhere and sees all in Me — for him I am not lost, and he is not lost for Me.”

sarvabhūtasthitaṃ yo māṃ bhajatyekatvamāsthitaḥ । sarvathā vartamāno'pi sa yogī mayi vartate ॥

“Whoever serves Me, abiding in oneness, as present in all beings — though living in all ways, that seeker abides in Me.”

ātmaupamyena sarvatra samaṃ paśyati yo'rjuna । sukhaṃ vā yadi vā duḥkhaṃ sa yogī paramo mataḥ ॥

“Whoever, O Arjuna, sees the same everywhere by likeness to himself, whether joy or pain — that seeker is deemed highest.”

yo'yaṃ yogastvayā proktaḥ sāmyena madhusūdana । etasyāhaṃ na paśyāmi cañcalatvātsthitiṃ sthirām ॥

“This discipline you have taught by evenness, O Madhusūdana — from fickleness I see no steady footing for it.”

cañcalaṃ hi manaḥ kṛṣṇa pramāthi balavaddṛḍham । tasyāhaṃ nigrahaṃ manye vāyoriva suduṣkaram ॥

“For the mind is fickle, O Kṛṣṇa, turbulent, strong and stubborn; I think restraining it as hard as restraining the wind.”

asaṃśayaṃ mahābāho mano durnigrahaṃ calam । abhyāsena tu kaunteya vairāgyeṇa ca gṛhyate ॥

“Doubtless, O mighty-armed, the mind is hard to restrain and fickle; but by practice, O son of Kuntī, and by dispassion it is grasped.”

asaṃyatātmanā yogo duṣprāpa iti me matiḥ । vaśyātmanā tu yatatā śakyo'vāptumupāyataḥ ॥

“Discipline is hard to win for the unmastered self, so I think; but by the mastered self, striving with method, it can be won.”

ayatiḥ śraddhayopeto yogāccalitamānasaḥ । aprāpya yogasaṃsiddhiṃ kāṃ gatiṃ kṛṣṇa gacchati ॥

“Faithful yet unrestrained, his mind strayed from discipline, O Kṛṣṇa, failing to win perfection in discipline — what path does he reach?”

kaccinnobhayavibhraṣṭaśchinnābhramiva naśyati । apratiṣṭho mahābāho vimūḍho brahmaṇaḥ pathi ॥

“Fallen from both, is he not destroyed like a rent cloud, O mighty-armed — groundless, deluded on Brahman's path?”

etanme saṃśayaṃ kṛṣṇa chettumarhasyaśeṣataḥ । tvadanyaḥ saṃśayasyāsya chettā na hyupapadyate ॥

“This doubt of mine, O Kṛṣṇa, you should cut away wholly; for other than you, no cutter of this doubt is found.”

pārtha naiveha nāmutra vināśastasya vidyate । na hi kalyāṇakṛtkaściddurgatiṃ tāta gacchati ॥

“O Pārtha, neither here nor beyond is there ruin for him; for no doer of good, dear one, reaches a bad end.”

prāpya puṇyakṛtāṃ lokānuṣitvā śāśvatīḥ samāḥ । śucīnāṃ śrīmatāṃ gehe yogabhraṣṭo'bhijāyate ॥

“Winning the worlds of the meritorious, dwelling endless years there, the fallen seeker is reborn in the house of the pure and prosperous.”

athavā yogināmeva kule bhavati dhīmatām । etaddhi durlabhataraṃ loke janma yadīdṛśam ॥

“Or he is born in the family of wise seekers alone; for such a birth in the world is harder to win.”

tatra taṃ buddhisaṃyogaṃ labhate paurvadehikam । yatate ca tato bhūyaḥ saṃsiddhau kurunandana ॥

“There he regains the thought-link of his former body, and strives further toward perfection, O joy of the Kurus.”

pūrvābhyāsena tenaiva hriyate hyavaśo'pi saḥ । jijñāsurapi yogasya śabdabrahmātivartate ॥

“By that same former practice he is carried on, even helpless; even the inquirer after discipline passes beyond the Vedic word.”

prayatnādyatamānastu yogī saṃśuddhakilbiṣaḥ । anekajanmasaṃsiddhastato yāti parāṃ gatim ॥

“But the seeker striving with effort, his stains cleansed, perfected over many births, then reaches the highest path.”

tapasvibhyo'dhiko yogī jñānibhyo'pi mato'dhikaḥ । karmibhyaścādhiko yogī tasmādyogī bhavārjuna ॥

“The seeker is deemed higher than ascetics, higher even than the learned, higher than ritualists — so be a seeker, O Arjuna.”

yogināmapi sarveṣāṃ madgatenāntarātmanā । śraddhāvānbhajate yo māṃ sa me yuktatamo mataḥ ॥

“And of all seekers, whoever serves Me with inmost self fixed on Me, full of faith — he is deemed by Me most yoked.”

mayyāsaktamanāḥ pārtha yogaṃ yuñjanmadāśrayaḥ । asaṃśayaṃ samagraṃ māṃ yathā jñāsyasi tacchṛṇu ॥

“With mind clinging to Me, O Pārtha, practising discipline, sheltered in Me — hear how you will know Me fully, beyond doubt.”

jñānaṃ te'haṃ savijñānamidaṃ vakṣyāmyaśeṣataḥ । yajjñātvā neha bhūyo'nyajjñātavyamavaśiṣyate ॥

“I will declare to you in full this learning with discernment, knowing which nothing else here remains to be known.”

manuṣyāṇāṃ sahasreṣu kaścidyatati siddhaye । yatatāmapi siddhānāṃ kaścinmāṃ vetti tattvataḥ ॥

“Among thousands of men one strives for perfection; even of striving perfected men, one truly knows Me in truth.”

bhūmirāpo'nalo vāyuḥ khaṃ mano buddhireva ca । ahaṃkāra itīyaṃ me bhinnā prakṛtiraṣṭadhā ॥

“Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, thought, and ego — thus My nature is divided eightfold.”

apareyamitastvanyāṃ prakṛtiṃ viddhi me parām । jīvabhūtāṃ mahābāho yayedaṃ dhāryate jagat ॥

“This is the lower; but know My other, higher nature, O mighty-armed — the life-element by which this world is upheld.”

etadyonīni bhūtāni sarvāṇītyupadhāraya । ahaṃ kṛtsnasya jagataḥ prabhavaḥ pralayastathā ॥

“Know all beings as born of this pair; I am the source of the whole world, and its dissolution too.”

mattaḥ parataraṃ nānyatkiṃcidasti dhanaṃjaya । mayi sarvamidaṃ protaṃ sūtre maṇigaṇā iva ॥

“Nothing else exists higher than Me, O Dhanañjaya; on Me is all this strung, as gem-clusters on a thread.”

raso'hamapsu kaunteya prabhāsmi śaśisūryayoḥ । praṇavaḥ sarvavedeṣu śabdaḥ khe pauruṣaṃ nṛṣu ॥

“I am the savour in waters, O son of Kuntī, the radiance in moon and sun, the syllable Om in all Vedas, sound in ether, manliness in men.”

puṇyo gandhaḥ pṛthivyāṃ ca tejaścāsmi vibhāvasau । jīvanaṃ sarvabhūteṣu tapaścāsmi tapasviṣu ॥

“And I am the pure scent in earth, the glow in fire; I am the life in all beings, the austerity in ascetics.”

bījaṃ māṃ sarvabhūtānāṃ viddhi pārtha sanātanam । buddhirbuddhimatāmasmi tejastejasvināmaham ॥

“Know Me as the eternal seed of all beings, O Pārtha; I am the thought of the thoughtful, the splendour of the splendid.”

balaṃ balavatāṃ cāhaṃ kāmarāgavivarjitam । dharmāviruddho bhūteṣu kāmo'smi bharatarṣabha ॥

“And I am the strength of the strong, free from craving and passion; in beings I am the desire unopposed to law, O best of Bharatas.”

ye caiva sāttvikā bhāvā rājasāstāmasāśca ye । matta eveti tānviddhi na tvahaṃ teṣu te mayi ॥

“And whatever states are of goodness, passion, or darkness — know them as from Me alone; yet I am not in them, they are in Me.”

tribhirguṇamayairbhāvairebhiḥ sarvamidaṃ jagat । mohitaṃ nābhijānāti māmebhyaḥ paramavyayam ॥

“By these three states made of the qualities, all this world is deluded and does not know Me, higher than them, unchanging.”

daivī hyeṣā guṇamayī mama māyā duratyayā । māmeva ye prapadyante māyāmetāṃ taranti te ॥

“For this divine glamour of Mine, made of the qualities, is hard to cross; those who take refuge in Me alone cross beyond this glamour.”

na māṃ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante narādhamāḥ । māyayāpahṛtajñānā āsuraṃ bhāvamāśritāḥ ॥

“Evil-doers, deluded, lowest of men, whose knowledge is stolen by glamour, resorting to a demon nature, take no refuge in Me.”

caturvidhā bhajante māṃ janāḥ sukṛtino'rjuna । ārto jijñāsurarthārthī jñānī ca bharatarṣabha ॥

“Four kinds of doers of good serve Me, O Arjuna — the afflicted, the inquirer, the wealth-seeker, and the knower, O best of Bharatas.”

teṣāṃ jñānī nityayukta ekabhaktirviśiṣyate । priyo hi jñānino'tyarthamahaṃ sa ca mama priyaḥ ॥

“Of these the knower, ever yoked, of single devotion, excels; for I am exceeding dear to the knower, and he is dear to Me.”

udārāḥ sarva evaite jñānī tvātmaiva me matam । āsthitaḥ sa hi yuktātmā māmevānuttamāṃ gatim ॥

“Noble are all these indeed, but the knower is My very self, so I think — for with yoked self he rests on Me, the unsurpassed path.”

bahūnāṃ janmanāmante jñānavānmāṃ prapadyate । vāsudevaḥ sarvamiti sa mahātmā sudurlabhaḥ ॥

“At the end of many births the man of knowledge takes refuge in Me — 'Vāsudeva is all'; such a great self is very hard to find.”

kāmaistaistairhṛtajñānāḥ prapadyante'nyadevatāḥ । taṃ taṃ niyamamāsthāya prakṛtyā niyatāḥ svayā ॥

“Those whose knowledge is stolen by this or that craving take refuge in other gods, keeping this or that rule, ruled by their own nature.”