Bhagavad Gita 6.7जितात्मनः प्रशान्तस्य परमात्मा समाहितः।शीतोष्णसुखदुःखेषु तथा मानापमानयोः ॥
jitātmanaḥ praśhāntasya paramātmā samāhitaḥ
śhītoṣhṇa-sukha-duḥkheṣhu tathā mānāpamānayoḥ
Sanskrit recitation
Who is truly a yogi · 6.1–6.9 · Teaching
Translation
The Supreme Self of him who is self-controlled and peaceful remains balanced in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, as well as in honor and dishonor.
Hindi translation
जिसने अपने-आपपर अपनी विजय कर ली है, उस शीत-उष्ण (अनुकूलता-प्रतिकूलता) सुख-दुःख तथा मान-अपमानमें निर्विकार मनुष्यको परमात्मा नित्यप्राप्त हैं।
Meaning
The selfcontrolled Yogi who is rooted in the Self keeps poise amidst the pairs of opposites (Dvandvas) or the alternating waves of cold and heat, pleasure and pain, honour and dishonour. When the Yogi has subdued his senses, when his mind is balanced and peaceful under all conditions, when he is not in the least influenced by the pairts of opposites, when he has renounced all actions, then the Highest Self really becomes his own Self. He attains to Selfrealisation. As he rests in hiw own Self, he is ever serene or tranil he is not affected by the pairs of opposites, and he stands as adamant in the face of the changing conditions of Nature.
After Swami Sivananda
Who is truly a yogi· 6.1–6.9→
Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.
- 6.1The Blessed Lord said: He who performs his bounden duty without depending on the fruits of…
- 6.2Do you, O Arjuna, know that Yoga is what they call renunciation; no one indeed becomes a…
- 6.3For a sage who wishes to attain to Yoga, action is said to be the means; for the same sage…
- 6.4When a person is not attached to the sense-objects or to actions, having renounced all…
- 6.5One should raise oneself by one's own self alone; let not one lower oneself; for the self…
- 6.6The Self is the friend of the self of him by whom the Self has been conquered; but to the…
6.7The Supreme Self of him who is self-controlled and peaceful remains balanced in cold and…
- 6.8The Yogi who is satisfied with the knowledge and wisdom of the Self, who has conquered the…
- 6.9He who is of the same mind towards the good-hearted, friends, enemies, the indifferent,…
Word-by-word→
- māna
- in honor
- sukha
- happiness
- tathā
- also
- śhīta
- in cold
- uṣhṇa
- heat
- samāhitaḥ
- steadfast
- apamānayoḥ
- and dishonor
- duḥkheṣhu
- and distress
- parama-ātmā
- God
- praśhāntasya
- of the peaceful
- jita-ātmanaḥ
- one who has conquered one’s mind
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