Bhagavad Gita 6.43तत्र तं बुद्धिसंयोगं लभते पौर्वदेहिकम्।यतते च ततो भूयः संसिद्धौ कुरुनन्दन ॥
tatra taṁ buddhi-sanyogaṁ labhate
paurva-dehikam yatate cha tato bhūyaḥ sansiddhau kuru-nandana
Sanskrit recitation
When the mind will not stay · 6.33–6.47 · Teaching
Translation
Then he comes into contact with the knowledge acquired in his former body and strives even more for perfection, O Arjuna.
Hindi translation
हे कुरुनन्दन ! वहाँपर उसको पूर्वजन्मकृत साधन-सम्पत्ति अनायास ही प्राप्त हो जाती है। फिर उससे वह साधनकी सिद्धिके विषयमें पुनः विशेषतासे यत्न करता है।
Meaning
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.
After Swami Sivananda
When the mind will not stay· 6.33–6.47→
Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.
- 6.33Arjuna said, "O Krishna, I do not see how this Yoga of equanimity, which you have taught…
- 6.34The mind is indeed restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding, O Krishna; I consider it…
- 6.35The Blessed Lord said, "Undoubtedly, O mighty-armed Arjuna, the mind is difficult to…
- 6.36I think Yoga is hard to be attained by one with an uncontrolled self, but the…
- 6.37Arjuna said, "He who is unable to control himself, even though he has faith, and whose…
- 6.38Fallen from both, does he not perish like a rent cloud, supportless, O mighty-armed one,…
- 6.39O Krishna, please completely dispel this doubt of mine, for it is not possible for anyone…
- 6.40The Blessed Lord said, "O Arjuna, neither in this world nor in the next will there be…
- 6.41Having attained to the worlds of the righteous and having dwelt there for everlasting…
- 6.42Or he is born in a family of even the wisest of yogis; verily, such a birth is very…
6.43Then he comes into contact with the knowledge acquired in his former body and strives even…
- 6.44By that same former practice, he is borne on in spite of himself. Even he who merely…
- 6.45But the Yogi who strives assiduously, purified of sins and perfected gradually over many…
- 6.46The yogi is thought to be superior to the ascetics, even superior to those who have…
- 6.47And among all the Yogis, he who, full of faith and with his inner self merged in Me,…
Word-by-word→
- cha
- and
- tam
- that
- tatra
- there
- yatate
- strives
- labhate
- obtains
- tataḥ
- thereafter
- bhūyaḥ
- again
- sansiddhau
- for perfection
- kuru-nandana
- Arjun, descendant of the Kurus
- paurva-dehikam
- from the previous lives
- buddhi-sanyogam
- reawaken their wisdom
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