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Bhagavad Gita / Chapter 18 / Verse 51
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Bhagavad Gita 18.51

Sanskrit
Hindi
Sanskrit

बुद्ध्या विशुद्धया युक्तो धृत्यात्मानं नियम्य च | शब्दादीन्विषयांस्त्यक्त्वा रागद्वेषौ व्युदस्य च

Transliteration

buddhyā viśuddhayā yukto dhṛtyātmānaṃ niyamya ca . śabdādīnviṣayāṃstyaktvā rāgadveṣau vyudasya ca

English

Being endowed with a pure intellect, and controlling oneself with fortitude, rejecting the objects-beginning from sound [Sound, touch, form and colour, taste and smell.-Tr.], and eliminating attachment and hatred;

हिन्दी

विशुद्ध बुद्धि से युक्त, धृति से आत्मसंयम कर, शब्दादि विषयों को त्याग कर और राग-द्वेष का परित्याग कर....৷৷৷৷।।

Explanation — English

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. He keeps only those objects which are necessary for the bare maintenance of the body. He has neither attachment nor hatred even for those objects which are necessary for that purpose.

Explanation — हिन्दी

विशुद्ध बुद्धि से युक्त अर्थात् जिसका अन्तकरण शुद्ध है। विषयार्जन और विषयोपभोग की वासनाओं से मुक्त अन्तकरण ही शुद्ध कहलाता है। विशुद्ध बुद्धि से तात्पर्य सात्त्विकी बुद्धि से भी है।ध्यानाभ्यास के समय साधक का आन्तरिक सामञ्जस्य और शान्ति दो कारणों से नष्ट हो सकती है। (1) इन्द्रियों द्वारा विषय ग्रहण से? अथवा (2) मन द्वारा पूर्वानुभूत भोगों के स्मरण अर्थात् भोगस्मृति से। साधक को सात्त्विकी धृति से मन को संयमित करना चाहिए अर्थात् ध्यान के समय विषयभोगों का स्मरण नहीं करना चाहिए। इसी प्रकार? शब्दस्पर्शरूपरसगन्ध इन विषयों को त्यागने का अर्थ यह है कि यदि इन्द्रिय द्वारा कोई विषय ग्रहण किया भी जाता है? तो उसका चिन्तन प्रारम्भ नहीं करना चाहिए। यह तभी संभव होगा? जब साधक अपने व्यक्तिगत रागद्वेषों से मुक्त होगा। इन सबको सम्पादित करने के लिए मन के चारों ओर ज्ञान की प्राचीर (दीवार) निर्म्ात करनी चाहिए। ज्ञान से ही मन को अपने वश में किया जा सकता है। मनसंयम और इन्द्रियसंयम को क्रमश शम और दम भी कहते हैं।ध्यानाभ्यास के साधक के विषय में? और आगे कहते हैं

Sanskrit
English
बुद्ध्या
with an intellect
विशुद्धया
pure
युक्तः
endowed
धृत्या
by firmness
आत्मानम्
the self
नियम्य
controlling
च
and
शब्दादीन्
sound and other
विषयान्
senseobjects
त्यक्त्वा
relinishing
रागद्वेषौ
attraction and hatred
व्युदस्य
abandoning
च
and.
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18.1Arjuna said O mighty-armed Hrsikesa, O slayer of (the demon) Kesi, I want to know serverally the truth about sannyasa as also about tyaga.18.2The Blessed Lord said The learned ones know sannyasa to be the giving up of actions done with a desire for reward. The adepts call the abandonment of the results of all works as tyaga.18.3Some learned persons say that action, beset with evil (as it is), should be given up, and others (say) that the practice of sacrifice, charity and austertiy should not be given up.18.4O the most excellent among the descendants of Bharata, hear from Me the firm conclusion regarding that tyaga. For, O greatest among men, tyaga has been clearly declared to be of three kinds.18.5The practice of sacrifice, charity and austerity is not to be abandoned; it is surely to be undertaken. Sacrifice, charity and austerity are verily the purifiers of the wise.18.6But even these actions have to be undertaken by renouncing attachment and (hankering for) results. This is My firm and best conclusion, O Parhta.18.7The abandoning of daily obligatory acts (nityakamas) is not justifiable. Giving up that through delusion is declared to be based on tamas.18.8Whatever action one may relinish merely as being painful, from fear of physical suffering, he, having resorted to renunciation based on rajas, will surely not acire the fruits of renunciation.18.9Whatever obligatory duty is performed just because it is a bounden duty, O Arjuna, by giving up attachment and the result as well,-that renunciation is considered to be based on sattva.18.10The man of renunciation who has become imbued with sattva, who is wise and freed from doubts, does not hate unbefitting action, nor does he become attached to befitting activity.