pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: निराशर्यतचित्तात्मा त्यक्तसर्वपरिग्रहः। शारीरं केवलं कर्म कुर्वन् नाप्नोति किल्बिषम्॥
English: Being devoid of desires and having the mind and the senses under control casting off all concerns, he, who performs action for the preservation of the body, incurs no sin.
Sanskrit: यदृच्छालाभसंतुष्टो द्वन्द्वातीतो विमत्सरः। समः सिद्धावसिद्धौ च कृत्वाऽपि न निबध्यते॥
English: Being contended with what is earned spontaneously, rising superior to the pairs of opposites, being free from all jealousy, (such a man), being equable in success or failures, is not fettered by actions, although he performs actions.
Sanskrit: गतसङ्गस्य मुक्तस्य ज्ञानावस्थितचेतसः। यज्ञायाचरतः कर्म समग्रं प्रविलीयते॥
English: The acts of the man who is devoid of attachment, who is free from passions and whose mind is steady in knowledge, are all destroyed.
Sanskrit: ब्रह्मार्पणं ब्रह्म हविर्ब्रह्माग्नौ ब्रह्मणा हुतम्। ब्रह्मैव तेन गन्तव्यं ब्रह्मकर्मसमाधिना।॥
English: Brahma is the vessel of libation, Brahma is the libation itself, Brahma is the fire, Brahma is the pourer of libation to him who thus meditates upon Brahma in all his actions, Brahma is the goal to which he proceeds.
Sanskrit: दैवमेवापरे यज्ञ योगिनः पर्युपासते। ब्रह्माग्नावपरे यज्ञं यज्ञेनैवोपजुह्वति॥
English: Some yogis perform the Sacrifice to the Celestial; others (however) offer up (such) Sacrifices in the Sacrifice of Brahma-Fire.
Sanskrit: श्रोत्रादीनीन्द्रियाण्यन्ये संयमाग्निषु जुह्वति। शब्दादीन् विषयानन्ये इन्द्रियाग्निषु जुह्वति॥
English: Others offer up in the fire of Self-restraint all his senses, such as the senses of hearing and others. Others again offer up the objects of sense, such as sound into the fire of senses.
Sanskrit: सर्वाणीन्द्रियकर्माणि प्राणकर्माणि चापरे। आत्मसंयमयोगाग्नौ जुह्वति ज्ञानदीपिते॥
English: Others offer up all the actions of the senses, and those of the life-breaths, into the Yoga-fire of self-restraint, kindled by knowledge.
Sanskrit: द्रव्ययज्ञास्तपोयज्ञा योगयज्ञास्तथापरे। स्वाध्यायज्ञानयज्ञाश्च यतयः संशितव्रताः॥
English: Some perform the sacrifice for gaining possessions, some the Sacrifice of penance; others again Sacrifice of concentration of mind; some perform the Sacrifice of Vedic study, some that of knowledge, others again the Sacrifice of asceticism of rigid vows.
Sanskrit: अपाने जुह्वति प्राणं प्राणेऽपानं तथापरे। प्राणापानगती रुद्ध्वा प्राणायामपरायणाः॥
English: Some offer up the upward life-breaths to downward life-breaths, and the down-ward life breaths to upward life breaths. Stopping up the motions of both the upward and downward life breaths some devote themselves to the restraint of the life-breath itself. Others, who take limited food, offer the life-breath to life-breath.
Sanskrit: अपरे नियताहाराः प्राणान्प्राणेषु जुह्वति। सर्वेऽप्येते यज्ञविदो यज्ञक्षपितकल्मषाः॥
English: All these men, learned in the (various) Sacrifices, having their sins destroyed by Sacrifice, and eating the remains of the Sacrifice, which is ambrosia, go to the eternal Brahma.
Sanskrit: यज्ञशिष्टामृतभुजो यान्ति ब्रह्म सनातनम्। नायं लोकोऽस्त्ययज्ञस्य कुतोऽन्यः कुरुसत्तम॥
English: O best of Kurus, this world is not for those who do not perform any Sacrifice, what to speak of the future world.
Sanskrit: एवं बहुविधा यज्ञा वितता ब्रह्मणो मुखे। कर्मजान् विद्धि तान् सर्वानेवं ज्ञात्वा विमोक्ष्यसे॥
English: Thus Sacrifices of various sorts are in the Vedas. Know them all as the results of actions; and knowing this, you will be freed (from the fetters of the world).
Sanskrit: श्रेयान् द्रव्यमयाद् यज्ञाज्ज्ञानयज्ञः परंतप। सर्वं कर्माखिलं पार्थ ज्ञाने परिसमाप्यते॥
English: The sacrifice of knowledge, O terror of foes, is superior to the Sacrifice for gaining possession (in this world or in the future), for, O Parthas, all actions are wholly and fully comprehended by knowledge.
Sanskrit: तद् विद्धि प्रणिपातेन परिप्रश्नेन सेवया। उपदेक्ष्यन्ति ते ज्ञानं ज्ञानिनस्तत्वदर्शिनः॥
English: Learn knowledge by reverently saluting the learned, by asking them questions, by doing service to them. The men of knowledge and the men that know the Truth, will teach you knowledge.
Sanskrit: यज्ज्ञात्वा न पुनर्मोहमेवं यास्यसि पाण्डव। येन भूतान्यशेषेण द्रक्ष्यस्यात्मन्यथो मयि॥
English: Having learnt it, O son of Pandu, you will not again fall into delusion. And by means of it, you will see all beings first in yourself and them in Me.
Sanskrit: अपि चेदसि पापेभ्य: सर्वेभ्यः पापकृत्तमः। सर्वं ज्ञानप्लवेनैव वृजिनं संतरिष्यसि।॥
English: If you be the greatest sinner amongst all sinful men, you will (still) cross over the ocean of your sin by means of the boat of knowledge.
Sanskrit: यथैधांसि समिद्धोऽग्निर्भस्मसात्कुरुतेऽर्जुन। ज्ञानाग्निः सर्वकर्माणि भस्मसात्कुरुते तथा॥
English: As, O Arjuna, a blazing fire reduces all wood to ashes, so the fire of knowledge reduces all actions to ashes.
Sanskrit: न हि ज्ञानेन सदृशं पवित्रमिह विद्यते। तत् स्वयं योगसंसिद्धः कालेनात्मनि विन्दति॥
English: There is nothing in this world which so much purifies (man) as knowledge. The man, perfected by Yoga, learns it within himself in time.
Sanskrit: श्रद्धावाँल्लभते ज्ञानं तत्परः संयतेन्द्रियः। ज्ञानं लब्वा परां शान्तिमचिरेणाधिगच्छति॥
English: The man of faith, the man of assiduousness, the man of self-restraint, obtains knowledge; and obtaining knowledge, he gains the highest tranquility (Mukti) without delay.
Sanskrit: अज्ञश्चाश्रद्धधानश्च संशयात्मा विनश्यति। नायं लोकोऽस्ति न परो न सुखं संशयात्मनः॥
English: He, who is ignorant, who has no faith and whose mind is full of misgivings and doubt, is lost. Not this world, not the next, not (any) happiness is for him whose mind is full of doubts.
Sanskrit: योगसंन्यस्तकर्माणं ज्ञानसंछिन्नसंशयम्। आत्मवन्तं न कर्माणि निबध्नन्ति धनंजय॥
English: Actions, O Dhananjaya, do not fetter him, who is self-possessed, whose doubts have been removed by knowledge and who has placed all his actions in Yoga.
Sanskrit: तस्मादज्ञानसम्भूतं हृत्स्थं ज्ञानासिनाऽऽत्मनः। छित्त्वैनं संशयं योगमातिष्ठोत्तिष्ठ भारत॥
English: Therefore, Oh descendant of Bharata, destroying with the sword of knowledge these inisgivings of yours produced from ignorance, engage in yoga of action, Arise.
Sanskrit: अर्जुन उवाच संन्यासं कर्मणां कृष्ण पुनर्योगं च शंससि। यच्छ्रेय एतयोरेकं तन्मे ब्रूहि सुनिश्चितम्॥
English: Arjuna said O Krishna, you praise Karma Sannyasa (renunciation of action) and also Karma yoga (the pursuit of action). Tell me definitely, which of the two is superior?
Sanskrit: श्रीभगवानुवाच संन्यासः कर्मयोगश्च निःश्रेयसकरावुभौ। तयोस्तु कर्मसंन्यासात् कर्मयोगो विशिष्यते॥
English: The great One said Both renunciation of action and pursuit of action are means for emancipation. But of these two, pursuit of action is superior to renunciation of action.
Sanskrit: ज्ञेयः स नित्यसंन्यासी यो न द्वेष्टि न काक्षति। निर्द्वन्द्वो हि महाबाहो सुखं बन्धात् प्रमुच्यते॥
English: He, who has no aversion and no desire, should for all times be considered an ascetic. For, O mighty-armed, he, who is free from the pairs of opposites, is easily released from the letters of the world.
Sanskrit: सांख्ययोगौ पृथग्बालाः प्रवदन्ति न पण्डिताः। एकमण्यास्थितः सम्यगुभयोविन्दते फलम्॥
English: Fools, not wise men, say that Sankhya (renunciation of action to know God) and Yoga (pursuit of action living in God) are distinct. He who practices one, fully earns the fruits of the both.
Sanskrit: यत् सांख्यैः प्राप्यते स्थानं तद् योगैरपि गम्यते। एकं सांख्यं च योगं च यः पश्यति स पश्यति॥
English: The place which the follower of Sankhya obtains; is also gained by the followers of Yoga. He sees truly who sees the Sankhya and the Yoga as one and the same.
Sanskrit: संन्यासस्तु महाबाहो दुःखमाप्तुमयोगतः। योगयुक्तो मुनिर्ब्रह्म नचिरेणाधिगच्छति॥
English: O mighty-armed, asceticism is difficult to be attained without the Yoga of action. The sage, possessed of Yoga of action attains to Brahma without delay.
Sanskrit: योगयुक्तो विशुद्धात्मा विजितात्मा जितेन्द्रियः। सर्वभूतात्मभूतात्मा कुर्वन्नपि न लिप्यते॥
English: He, who is possessed of Yoga, whose mind is pure, who is self-restrained, who has controlled his senses and who sees his self in every being, is not fettered by performing actions.
Sanskrit: नैव किंचित् करोमीति युक्तो मन्येत तत्त्ववित्। पश्यशृण्वन् स्पृशञ्जिघ्रनश्नन् गच्छन् स्वपञ्श्वसन्॥ प्रलपन् विसृजन् गृह्णनुन्मिषन्निमिषन्नपि। इन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थेषु वर्तन्त इति धारयन्॥
English: The man of knowledge, the man of Yoga, thinks, I am doing nothing. When he sees, hears, touches, smells, eats, moves, sleeps, breathes, talks, throws out exertions, takes, opens and closes his eye-lids, he thinks that his senses (merely) deal with the objects of senses.
Sanskrit: ब्रह्मण्याधाय कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा करोति यः। लिप्यते न स पापेन पद्मपत्रमिवाम्भसा॥
English: He, who performs actions, dedicating them to Brahma and casting off all attachments for their fruits, is not touched by sin, as the lotusleaf is never wet with water.
Sanskrit: कायेन मनसा वुद्ध्या केवलैरिन्द्रियैरपि। योगिनः कर्म कुर्वन्ति सङ्गं त्यक्त्वाऽऽत्मशुद्धये॥
English: The yoga perform actions, attaining purity of self, the body, the mind, the understanding, even the senses, being free from all attachments.
Sanskrit: युक्तः कर्मफलं त्यक्त्वा शान्तिमाप्नोति नैष्ठिकीम्। अयुक्तः कामकारेण फले सक्ता निबध्यते॥
English: The Yoga's, abandoning the desire for the fruits of actions, attains to to the highest tranquility, and the Non-yogi, being attached to the fruits of action, is tied down (to re-births) on account of desire.
Sanskrit: सर्वकर्माणि मनसा संन्यस्यास्ते सुखं वशी। नवद्वारे पुरे देही नैव कुर्वन् न कारयन्॥
English: The self-restrained embodied self (man), renouncing all actions by his mind, (but performing actions by his body) lives at ease within the city of mine gates, (his body) doing nothing and causing nothing to be done.
Sanskrit: न कर्तृत्वं न कर्माणि लोकस्य सृजति प्रभुः। न कर्मफलसंयोगं स्वभावस्तु
English: The Lord does neither create the capacity of action in man, nor the cause of actions, nor the connection of action and its fruits. The Nature only works.
Sanskrit: नादत्ते कस्यचित् पापं न चैव सुकृतं विभुः। अज्ञानेनावृतं ज्ञानं तेन मुह्यन्ति जन्तवः॥
English: The Lord receives no one's sins, nor virtues of any. Knowledge is enveloped by ignorance. For this reason creatures are deluded.
Sanskrit: ज्ञानेन तु तदज्ञानं येषां नाशितमात्मनः। तेषामादित्यवज्ज्ञानं प्रकाशयति तत्परम्॥
English: To those who have destroyed this ignorance by the knowledge of Self, this knowledge like the Sun shows forth the Supreme.
Sanskrit: तद्बुद्धयस्तदात्मानस्तनिष्ठास्तत्परायणाः। गच्छन्त्यपुनरावृत्तिं ज्ञाननिषूतकल्मषाः॥
English: Those, whose mind is in Him, whose very self is He, who is devoted to Him, whose goal is He, depart, never to return, their sins having been destroyed by knowledge.
Sanskrit: प्रवर्तते॥ विद्याविनयसम्पन्ने ब्राह्मणे गवि हस्तिनि। शुनि चैव श्वपाके च पण्डिताः समदर्शिनः॥
English: The truly wise men look on a Brahmana, endued with learning and humility and on a cow, an elephant, a dog and a Chandala, as all alike.
Sanskrit: इहैव तैर्जितः सर्गो येषां साम्ये स्थितं मनः। निर्दोषं हि समं ब्रह्म तस्माद् ब्रह्मणि ते स्थिताः॥
English: Even here the material world is conquered by those whose minds rest on equability. As Brahma is faultless and equable, therefore they rest in Brahma.
Sanskrit: न प्रहृष्येत् प्रियं प्राप्य नोद्विजेत् प्राप्य चाप्रियम्। स्थिरबुद्धिरसम्मूढो ब्रह्मविद् ब्रह्मणि स्थितः॥
English: The man, who rest in Brahma, whose mind is steady, and who is not deluded, does not exult on obtaining any thing agreeable or does not grieve for getting any thing disagreeable,
Sanskrit: बाह्यस्पर्शेष्वसत्तात्मा विन्दत्यात्मनि यत् सुखम्। स ब्रह्मयोगयुक्तात्मा सुखमक्षयमश्नुते॥
English: One, whose self is not attached to external objects, obtains the happiness that is in one's self; and he, having his self united with Brahma, obtains the happiness which is imperishable.
Sanskrit: ये हि संस्पर्शजा भोगा दुःखयोनय एव ते। आद्यन्तवन्तः कौन्तेय बुधः॥
English: The pleasures, derived from objects of sense, are the sources of misery, and they have a beginnings as well as an end. Therefore, O son of Kunti, 'a wise man docs not feel any pleasures in them.
Sanskrit: शक्नोतीहैव य: सोढुं प्राक शरीरविमोक्षणात्। कामक्रोधोद्भवं वेगं युक्तः स सुखी नरः॥
English: He who is able to bear the agitation of desire and wrath, even in this world, before the dissolution of the body is united with God; he is happy.
Sanskrit: योऽन्तः सुखोऽन्तरारामस्तथाऽन्तर्कोतिरेव यः। स योगी ब्रह्मनिर्वाणं ब्रह्मभूतोऽधिगच्छति॥ न तेषु रमते
English: That Yogi, whose happiness is within himself whose recreations are within himself, becoming one with Brahma, obtains Brahma Nirvana (Self extinction in God).
Sanskrit: लभन्ते ब्रह्मनिर्वाणमृषयः क्षीणकल्मषाः। छिन्नद्वैधा यतात्मानः सर्वभूतहिते रताः॥
English: The Rishis, whose sins are destroyed, whose misgivings are perished, who are selfrestraint and who are engaged in doing good to all beings, obtain Brahma Nirvana.
Sanskrit: कामक्रोधवियुक्तानां यतीनां यतचेतसाम्। अभितो ब्रह्मनिर्वाणं वर्तते विदितात्मनाम्॥
English: Absorption in Brahma here in this world and hereafter in the next is obtained by those yogis who are free from wrath and desire, whose minds are under control and who have the knowledge of Self.
Sanskrit: स्पर्शान् कृत्वा बहिर्बाह्यांश्चक्षुश्चैवान्ते भ्रुवोः। प्राणापानौ समौ कृत्वा नासाभ्यन्तरचारिणौ॥ यतेन्द्रियमनोबुद्धिमुनिर्मोक्षपरायणः। विगतेच्छाभयक्रोधो यः सदा मुक्त एव सः॥
English: The Yogi, who being intent to obtain emancipation, has restrained his senses, mind and understanding, who is freed from desire, wrath and fear, who, excluding from his mind all external objects of sense, directing his sight between the brows, mingles into one the upward and the downward life-breaths and make them pass through the nostril, is sure to obtain emancipation.
Sanskrit: भोक्तारं यज्ञतपसां सर्वलोकमहेश्वरम्। सुहृदं सर्वभूतानां ज्ञात्वा मां शान्तिमृच्छति॥
English: He, who knows Me as the enjoyer of all sacrifices and penances, the great lord of all the worlds and the friend of all creatures, obtain peace".
Sanskrit: श्रीभगवानुवाच अनाश्रितः कर्मफलं कार्यं कर्म करोति यः। स संन्यासी च योगी च न निरग्निर्न चाक्रियः॥
English: The great one said He, who performs actions that ought to be performed, regardless of their fruits is a Sanyasi or Yogi, but not he who discard the sacrificial fire and obtains from all actions.
Sanskrit: यं संन्यासमिति प्राहुर्योगं तं विद्धि पाण्डव। न ह्यसंन्यस्तसंकल्पो योगी भवति कश्चन॥
English: To the devotees who are free from desire and wrath, and a Yogi who has not renounced all his resolves.
Sanskrit: आरुरुक्षोर्मुनेर्योगं कर्म कारणमुच्यते। योगारूढस्य तस्यैव शमः कारणमुच्यते॥
English: To the sage who desires to rise to Yoga, action is said to be the means; and when he has risen to Yoga, Samadhi (cessation of all actions) is said to be the means.
Sanskrit: यदा हि नेन्द्रियार्थेषु न कर्मस्वनुषज्जते। सर्वसंकल्पसंन्यासी योगारूढस्तदोच्यते॥
English: When one is no longer attached to the objects of sense, nor to actions, and when one renounces all his resolves, then is he said to have risen to Yoga.
Sanskrit: उद्धरेदात्मनाऽऽत्मानं नात्मानमवसादयेत्। आत्मैव ह्यात्मनो बन्धुरात्मैव रिपुरात्मनः॥
English: One should elevate his self by self one should not degrade his self a man's self is his friend and his own self is also his enemy.
Sanskrit: बन्धुरात्माऽऽत्मनस्तस्य येनात्मैवाऽऽत्मना जितः। अनात्मनस्तु शत्रुत्वे वर्तेतात्मैव शत्रुवत्॥
English: To him, who has subjugated his self, his self has become a friend but to him who has not subjugated his self, his self.
Sanskrit: जितात्मनः प्रशान्तस्य परमात्मा समाहितः। शीतोष्णसुखदुःखेषु तथा मानापमानयोः॥
English: The self of one who has subjugated his self, and who has attained peace, is absolutely fixed in itself in the midst of cold and heat, pleasures and pain, honour and dishonour.
Sanskrit: ज्ञानविज्ञानतृप्तात्मा कूटस्थो विजितेन्द्रियः। युक्त इत्युच्यते योगी समलोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनः॥
English: That Yogi is said to have risen to Yoga, whose self is contented with knowledge and science (experience), who is unmoved, who is self-restrained, and to whom clay, stone and gold are alike.
Sanskrit: सुहृन्मित्रार्युदासीनमध्यस्थद्वेष्यबन्धुषु। साधुष्वपि च पायेषु समबुद्धिर्विशिष्यते॥
English: He is distinguished above all others who considers alike his well-wishers, friends and enemies, and those that are indifferent, and those that take part with both sides, and those who are objects of hatred and those that are related to him and those that are good and those that are wicked.
Sanskrit: योगी युञ्जीत सततमात्मानं रहसि स्थितः। एकाकी यतचित्तात्मा निराशीरपरिग्रहः॥
English: A devotee, remaining in a secluded place, should always devote his mind in contemplation, along with his mind, and selfrestrained, with no expectations, and with no concern (with any thing).
Sanskrit: शुचौ देशे प्रतिष्ठाप्य स्थिरमासनमात्मनः। नात्युच्छ्रितं नातिनीचं चैलाजिनकुशोत्तरम्॥ तत्रैकाग्रं मनः कृत्वा यतचित्तेन्द्रियक्रियः। उपविश्यासने युज्याद् योगमात्मविशुद्धये॥
English: Fixing his seat firmly on a clean spot, not too high and not too low, and spreading over it a piece of cloth, a deer-skin and Kusha (grass), there, seated on that seat, with his mind fixed on one point, and restraining his mind and senses, one should practice contemplation for the purification of his self.
Sanskrit: समं कायशिरोनीवं धारयन्नचलं स्थिरः। सम्प्रेक्ष्य नासिकाग्रं स्वं दिशश्चानवलोकयन्॥
English: even Holding body, head and neck unmoved and steady, and fixing his sight on the tip of his own nose, and without loO king about in all directions,
Sanskrit: प्रशान्तात्मा विगतभीब्रह्मचारिखते स्थितः। मनः संयम्य मच्चित्तो युक्ते आसीत मत्परः॥
English: With his self in tranquility, freed from fcar, adhering to the practices of Brahmacharies, he should restrain his mind, fix his heart on Me and sit down, regarding Me as his final goal.
Sanskrit: युञ्जन्नेवं सदाऽऽत्मानं योगी नियतमानसः। शान्तिं निर्वाणपरमां मत्संस्थामधिगच्छति॥
English: Thus constantly devoting his self to abstraction and contemplation, the Yogi whose mind is restrained, attains that peace which culminates in final absorption and assimilation with Me.
Sanskrit: नात्यश्नतस्तु योगोऽस्ति न चैकान्तमनश्नतः। न चाति स्वप्नशीलस्य जाग्रतो नैव चार्जुन॥
English: Devotion is not achieved by the man. O Arjuna, who eats too much, or eats nothing, who is addicted to too much sleep, or is always awake.
Sanskrit: युक्ताहारविहारस्य युक्तचेष्टस्य कर्मसु। युक्तस्वप्नावबोधस्य योगो भवति दुःखहा॥
English: The devotion that destroys misery is achieved by the man who is temperate in food and amusements, who toils duly in all his works and who is temperate in both sleep and vigils.
Sanskrit: यदा विनियतं चित्तमात्मन्येवावतिष्ठते। निः :स्पृहः सर्वकामेभ्यो युक्त इत्युच्यते तदा॥
English: When his mind, having been well restrained, becomes fixed on one's own self then, that man, being indifferent to all objects of desire, is called a yogi.
Sanskrit: यथा दीपो निवातस्थो नेङ्गते सोपमा स्मृता। योगिनो यतचित्तस्य युञ्जतो योगमात्मनः॥
English: A light, in a place where there is no air, flickers not; this has been cited as a simile to a yogi whose mind has been restrained, and who devotes himself to abstraction.
Sanskrit: यत्रोपरमते चित्तं निरुद्धं योगसेवया। यत्र चैवात्मनाऽऽत्मानं पश्यन्नात्मनि तुष्यति॥
English: That (state) in which mind, being retrained, ceases to work, in which one, seeing the self by self, is pleased in self.
Sanskrit: सुखमात्यन्तिकं यत्तद् बुद्धिचाह्यमतीन्द्रियम्। वेत्ति यत्र न चैवायं स्थितश्चलति तत्त्वतः॥
English: In which one experiences that infinite felicity which is beyond the sphere of the senses, and which Buddhi (understanding) can only grasp, and adhering to which one never Swerve from the truth.
Sanskrit: यं लब्वा चापरं लाभं मन्यते नाधिकं ततः। यस्मिन् स्थितो न दुःखेन गुरुणापि विचाल्यते॥
English: Acquiring which one considers no other acquisition higher than it, and adhering to which, one is not moved even in the greatest misery.
Sanskrit: तं विद्याद् दुःखसंयोगवियोगं योगसंज्ञितम्। स निश्चयेन योक्तव्यो योगोऽनिर्विण्णचेतसा॥
English: That state should be understood to be called Yoga, in which there is a complete severance of all connection with pain. Such Yoga should be practised with steadiness, and with an undisponding heart.
Sanskrit: संकल्पप्रभवान् कामांस्त्यक्त्वा सर्वानशेषतः। मनसैवेन्द्रियग्रामं विनियम्य समन्ततः॥
English: Abandoning without exception all desires, that produced from resolves, and restraining by mind only the entire group of the senses.
Sanskrit: शनैः शनैरुपरमेद् बुद्ध्या धृतिगृहीतया। आत्मसंस्थं मनः कृत्वा न किंचिदपि चिन्तयेत्॥
English: One should, by slow degrees, cease of think the objects of senses, with the. help of his understanding and controlled by patience, and then directing his mind to self.
Sanskrit: यतो यतो निश्चरति मनश्चञ्चलमस्थिरम्। ततस्ततो नियम्यैतदात्मन्येव वशं नयेत्॥
English: Whereas the restless and unsteady mind wants to stray away, one should always restrain it and fix it steadily on the self alone. are
Sanskrit: प्रशान्तमनसं ह्येनं योगिनं सुखमुत्तमम्। उपैति शान्तरजसं ब्रह्मभूतमकल्मषम्॥
English: To such a yogi, whose mind is in peace, whose passions have been suppressed, who has become one with Brahma, and who is agree from sin, highest felicity indeed comes by itself.
Sanskrit: युञ्जन्नेव सदाऽऽत्मानं योगी विगतकल्मषः। सुखेन ब्रह्मसंस्पर्शमत्यन्तं सुखमश्नुते॥
English: Thus constantly devoting his self to abstraction, a yogi, being freed from sin, casily achieves the supreme happiness, namely the contact with Brahma.
Sanskrit: सर्वभूतस्थमात्मानं सर्वभूतानि चात्मनि। ईक्षते योगयुक्तात्मा सर्वत्र समदर्शनः॥
English: I am never lost to him and he is never lost to Me, who sees Me in everything, and sees every thing in Me.
Sanskrit: यो मां पश्यति सर्वत्र सर्वं च मयि पश्यति। तस्याहं न प्रणश्यामि स च मे न प्रणश्यति॥
English: He, who has devoted his self to abstraction, loO king alike on everything, sees his self in all creatures in his self.
Sanskrit: सर्वभूतस्थितं यो मां भजत्येकत्वमास्थितः। सर्वथा वर्तमानोऽपि स योगी मयि वर्तते॥
English: He, who worships Me abiding in all creatures, and thinking that all is one, lives in Me, whatever may be the mode of his living.
Sanskrit: आत्मौपम्येन सर्वत्र समं पश्यति योऽर्जुन। सुखं वा यदि वा दुःखं स योगी परमो मतः॥
English: The Yogi, O Arjuna, who casts an equal eye everywhere, loO king alike pain and pleasure, and considering a'l things as his own self, and the happiness and the misery of others as his own is deemed to be the besi.
Sanskrit: अर्जुन उवाच योऽयं योगस्त्वया प्रोक्तः साम्येन मधुसूदन। एतस्याहं न पश्यामि चञ्चलत्वात् स्थिति स्थिराम्॥ चञ्चलं हि मनः कृष्ण प्रमाथि बलवद् दृढम्। तस्याहं निग्रहं मन्ये वायोरिव सुदुष्करम्॥
English: Arjuna said I cannot see, O destroyer of Madhu, how can this Yoga by, Equanimity, which you have declared to me, be made to have a continual existence. For, O Krishna, mind is fickle, boisterous, perverse and obstinate; and I think to restrain it is as difficult as to restrain the wind.
Sanskrit: श्रीभगवानुवाच असंशयं महाबाहो मनो दुर्निग्रहं चलम्। अभ्यासेन तु कौन्तेय वैराग्येण च गृह्यते॥
English: The great One said The mind, O mighty-armed, is surely difficult to be restrained, and it is restless. With constant practice, however, and with the abandonment of desire, O son of Kunti, is may be restrained.
Sanskrit: असंयतात्मना योगो दुष्प्राप इति मे मतिः। वश्यात्मना तु यतता शक्योऽवाप्तुमुपायतः॥
English: It is my belief that devotion is difficult to be achieved by one who does not restrain his self. But it can be achieved through proper expedients by one whose mind is restrained and who is assiduous.
Sanskrit: अर्जुन उवाच अयतिः श्रद्धयोपेतो योगाच्चलितमानसः। अप्राप्य योगसंसिद्धिं कां गतिं कृष्ण गच्छति॥
English: Arjuna said What is the end of him, O Krishna who has not earned success in devotion, being not assiduous, and having a mind shaken off from devotion, through full of faith?
Sanskrit: कश्चिन्नोभयविभ्रष्टश्छिन्नाभ्रमिव नश्यति। अप्रतिष्ठो महाबाहो विमूढो ब्रह्मणः पथि॥
English: Does he, O mighty-armed, having fallen from both, go to ruin like a broken cloud, being without support and deluded of the path to Brahma?
Sanskrit: एतन्मे संशयं कृष्ण छेत्तुमर्हस्यशेषतः। त्वदन्यः संशयस्यास्य छेत्ता न ह्युपपद्यते॥
English: It is you, O Krishna, who can entirely destroy this doubt of mine; for none else can destroy it.