Bhagavad Gita 18.51बुद्ध्या विशुद्धया युक्तो धृत्याऽऽत्मानं नियम्य च।शब्दादीन् विषयांस्त्यक्त्वा रागद्वेषौ व्युदस्य च ॥
buddhyā viśhuddhayā yukto dhṛityātmānaṁ niyamya cha
śhabdādīn viṣhayāns tyaktvā rāga-dveṣhau vyudasya cha
Sanskrit recitation
Toward inner perfection · 18.49–18.55 · Teaching
Translation
Endowed with a pure intellect, controlling the self through firmness, relinquishing sound and other objects and abandoning attraction and hatred.
Hindi translation
जो विशुद्ध (सात्त्विकी) बुद्धिसे युक्त, वैराग्यके आश्रित, एकान्तका सेवन करनेवाला और नियमित भोजन करनेवाला साधक धैर्यपूर्वक इन्द्रियोंका नियमन करके, शरीर-वाणी-मनको वशमें करके, शब्दादि विषयोंका त्याग करके और राग-द्वेषको छोड़कर निरन्तर ध्यानयोगके परायण हो जाता है, वह अहंकार, बल, दर्प, काम, क्रोध और परिग्रहका त्याग करके एवं निर्मम तथा शान्त होकर ब्रह्मप्राप्तिका पात्र हो जाता है।
Meaning
The lower self should be controlled with firmness by the Self of pure intellect. The turbulent senses and the mind should be subdued with the help of the pure intellect or reason. Pure reason is a great power. Whenever the senses raise their heads and hiss, they should be hammered by the powerful rod of pure intellect or reason. Reason is the faculty of determination.Pure intellect The intellect that is free from lust, anger, greed, pride, doubt, misconception, etc. It is like a clear mirror. A pure intellect is Brahman Itself. It can be easily merged in Brahman. When the pure intellect is merged in Brahman, the reflected intelligence, Chidabhasa or Jiva, is also absorbed in Brahman. The Jiva becomes identical with Brahman, just as the ether in the pot becomes one with the universal ether when the pot is broken.The self The aggregate of the body and the senses.The aspirant withdraws the senses from their respective objects again and again through the repeated practice of Pratyahara (abstraction) and Dama (selfrestraint). Gradually the senses are fixed in the Self. Their outgoing tendencies are totally curbed. The aspirant attains supreme control of the senses by constant meditation, by the practice of dispassion he coners Raga (attachment), and through the practice of pure love or cosmic love or divine Preme he coners hatred.He abandons all luxuries
After Swami Sivananda
Toward inner perfection· 18.49–18.55→
Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.
- 18.49He whose intellect is unattached everywhere, who has subdued his self, from whom desire…
- 18.50Learn from Me, O Arjuna, in brief how one who has attained perfection reaches Brahman—the…
18.51Endowed with a pure intellect, controlling the self through firmness, relinquishing sound…
- 18.52Dwelling in solitude, eating sparingly, with speech, body, and mind subdued, always…
- 18.53Having abandoned egoism, strength, arrogance, desire, anger, and covetousness, and being…
- 18.54Becoming Brahman, serene in the Self, he neither grieves nor desires; he is the same to…
- 18.55By devotion, he knows Me in truth, who and what I am; then, having known Me in truth, he…
Word-by-word→
- cha
- and
- niyamya
- restraining
- buddhyā
- intellect
- tyaktvā
- abandoning
- vyudasya
- casting aside
- yuktaḥ
- endowed with
- ātmānam
- the intellect
- dhṛityā
- by determination
- viśhuddhayā
- purified
- rāga-dveṣhau
- attachment and aversion
- śhabda-ādīn viṣhayān
- sound and other objects of the senses
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