Bhagavad Gita 6.8ज्ञानविज्ञानतृप्तात्मा कूटस्थो विजितेन्द्रियः।युक्त इत्युच्यते योगी समलोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनः ॥
jñāna-vijñāna-tṛiptātmā kūṭa-stho vijitendriyaḥ
yukta ityuchyate yogī sama-loṣhṭāśhma-kāñchanaḥ
Sanskrit recitation
Who is truly a yogi · 6.1–6.9 · Teaching
Translation
The Yogi who is satisfied with the knowledge and wisdom of the Self, who has conquered the senses, and to whom a clod of earth, a piece of stone, and gold are all the same, is said to have attained Nirvikalpa Samadhi.
Hindi translation
जिसका अन्तःकरण ज्ञान-विज्ञानसे तृप्त है, जो कूटकी तरह निर्विकार है, जितेन्द्रिय है और मिट्टीके ढेले, पत्थर तथा स्वर्णमें समबुद्धिवाला है -- ऐसा योगी युक्त (योगारूढ़) कहा जाता है।
Meaning
Jnana is ParokshaJnana or theoretical knowledge from the study of the scriptures. Vijnana is Visesha Jnana or Aparoksha Jnana, i.e., direct knowledge of the Self through Selfrealisation (spiritual experience or Anubhava).Kutastha means changeless like the anvil. Various kinds of iron pieces are hammered and shaped on the anvil, but the anvil remains unchanged. Even so the Yogi remains unshaken or unchanged or unaffected though he comes in contact with the senseobjects. So he is called Kutastha. Kutastha is another name of Brahman, the silent witness of the mind. (Cf.V.18VI.18)
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→
- iti
- thus
- sama
- looks equally
- yogī
- a yogi
- aśhma
- stone
- jñāna
- knowledge
- uchyate
- is said
- yuktaḥ
- one who is in constant communion with the Supreme
- vijñāna
- realized knowledge, wisdom from within
- loṣhṭra
- pebbles
- kāñchanaḥ
- gold
- kūṭa-sthaḥ
- undisturbed
- tṛipta ātmā
- one fully satisfied
- vijita-indriyaḥ
- one who has conquered the senses
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