Bhagavad Gita 5.19इहैव तैर्जितः सर्गो येषां साम्ये स्थितं मनः।निर्दोषं हि समं ब्रह्म तस्माद्ब्रह्मणि ते स्थिताः ॥
ihaiva tair jitaḥ sargo yeṣhāṁ sāmye sthitaṁ manaḥ
nirdoṣhaṁ hi samaṁ brahma tasmād brahmaṇi te sthitāḥ
Sanskrit recitation
Peace of the one who knows · 5.13–5.29 · Teaching
Translation
Even here in this world, those whose minds rest in reality overcome birth; Brahman is indeed spotless and real; therefore they are established in Brahman.
Hindi translation
जिनका अन्तःकरण समतामें स्थित है, उन्होंने इस जीवित-अवस्थामें ही सम्पूर्ण संसारको जीत लिया है; ब्रह्म निर्दोष और सम है, इसलिये वे ब्रह्ममें ही स्थित हैं।
Meaning
When the mind gets rooted in equanimity or evenness or equality, when it is always in a balanced state, one coners birth and death. Bondage is annihilated and freedom is attained by him. When the mind is in a perfectly balanced state he overcomes Brahman Himself, i.e., realises Brahman.Brahman is ever pure and attributeless and so He is not affected even though He dwells in an outcaste, dog, etc. So He is spotless. He is homogeneous and one, as He dwells eally in all beings.
After Swami Sivananda
Peace of the one who knows· 5.13–5.29→
Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.
- 5.13Mentally renouncing all actions and being self-controlled, the embodied one happily rests…
- 5.14Neither does the Lord create agency nor actions for the world, nor union with the fruits…
- 5.15The Lord takes neither the demerit nor the merit of any; knowledge is enveloped by…
- 5.16But to those whose ignorance is destroyed by knowledge of the Self, like the sun,…
- 5.17Their intellect absorbed in That, their self being That, established in That, with That as…
- 5.18Sages look with an equal eye on a Brahmana endowed with learning and humility, on a cow,…
5.19Even here in this world, those whose minds rest in reality overcome birth; Brahman is…
- 5.20Resting in Brahman, with a steady intellect and undeluded, the knower of Brahman neither…
- 5.21With the self unattached to external contacts, he finds happiness in the Self; with the…
- 5.22The enjoyments that arise from contact are only sources of pain, for they have a beginning…
- 5.23He who is able, while still here in this world, to withstand the impulse born out of…
- 5.24He who is happy within, who rejoices within, and who is illuminated within, that Yogi…
- 5.25The sages obtain absolute freedom or Moksha when their sins have been destroyed, their…
- 5.26Absolute freedom exists on all sides for those self-controlled ascetics who are free from…
- 5.27Shutting out all external contacts and fixing the gaze between the eyebrows, realizing the…
- 5.28With the senses, mind, and intellect ever controlled, having liberation as their supreme…
- 5.29He who knows Me as the enjoyer of sacrifices and austerities, the great Lord of all the…
Word-by-word→
- hi
- certainly
- te
- they
- samam
- in equality
- brahma
- God
- sāmye
- in equanimity
- taiḥ
- by them
- iha eva
- in this very life
- jitaḥ
- conquer
- manaḥ
- mind
- sthitam
- situated
- tasmāt
- therefore
- sargaḥ
- the creation
- yeṣhām
- whose
- brahmaṇi
- in the Absolute Truth
- sthitāḥ
- are seated
- nirdoṣham
- flawless
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