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BG 6.18

Bhagavad Gītā · Ātma Saṃyama YogaAnuṣṭubh (śloka)

यदा विनियतं चित्तमात्मन्येवावतिष्ठते | निःस्पृहः सर्वकामेभ्यो युक्त इत्युच्यते तदा ||६-१८||

yadā viniyataṃ cittamātmanyevāvatiṣṭhate . niḥspṛhaḥ sarvakāmebhyo yukta ityucyate tadā ||6-18||

Linguistic facts

Meter · chandasVidyut

Anuṣṭubh (śloka) · 16+16 syllables

scansion (laghu/guru)
yaLGviLniLyaLtaṃGciGttaLGtmaGnyeGGvaLtiGṣṭhaLteG
niḥGspṛLhaḥGsaGrvaLGmeGbhyoGyuGktaLiGtyuGcyaLteGtaLG
Sandhi · pada-pāṭhaVidyut
यत्आस्विनियतम्चित्तम्आत्मन्याइवअवतिष्ठतेनिःस्पृहस्सस्रूअक्आम्एभ्यस्युक्तइतीउच्यतेतदा
Word-by-word morphologyVidyut
18 words analyzed
  • यत्yatयत्nominal · nominative singular masculine
  • आस्āsnominal · nominative plural masculine
  • विनियतम्viniyatamविनियम्nominal · accusative singular masculine
  • चित्तम्cittamचित्nominal · accusative singular masculine
  • आत्ātnominal · Panchami singular masculine
  • मन्याmanyāमन्nominal · nominative singular masculine
  • इवivaइवindeclinable
  • अवतिष्ठतेavatiṣṭhateअवस्थाverb · present third singular active (√avasthā)
  • निःस्पृहस्niḥspṛhasनिःस्पृहnominal · nominative singular masculine
  • सस्sasnominal · nominative singular masculine
  • रूरुnominal · nominative dual masculine
  • अक्akअज्nominal · nominative singular masculine
  • आम्āmnominal · accusative singular masculine
  • एभ्यस्ebhyasnominal · dative plural masculine
  • युक्तyuktaयुज्nominal · vocative singular masculine
  • इतीitīइतिnominal · nominative dual feminine
  • उच्यतेucyateवच्verb · present third singular passive (√vac)
  • तदाtadāतदाindeclinable
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Translations

Swami SivanandaRelay

6.18 When the perfectly controlled mind rests in the Self only, free from longing for all the objects of desires, then it is said, 'He is united'.

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8 more attributed translations
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaRelay

When the yogī, by practice of yoga, disciplines his mental activities and becomes situated in transcendence – devoid of all material desires – he is said to be well established in yoga.

Dr.S.SankaranarayanRelay

6.18. When [his] well-controlled mind gets established in nothing but the Self and he is free from craving for any desired object-at that time his is called a master of Yoga.

Shri Purohit SwamiRelay

6.18 When the mind, completely controlled, is centered in the Self, and free from all earthly desires, then is the man truly spiritual.

Sri Abhinav GuptaRelay

6.18 Yada etc. The distinguishing mark of this man of Yoga is : Havnig his mind controlled in nothing but the Self, he does not crave at all [for anything].

Sri RamanujaRelay

6.18 When the mind which usually goes after sense enjoyments, abandons such desires and 'rests on the self alone,' i.e., becomes well-settled on account of discerning unsurpassable good in the self alone and rests there alone steadily, without movement - then, being 'free of yearning for all desires,' one is said to be integrated. He is said to be fit for Yoga.

Sri ShankaracharyaRelay

6.18 A yogi, nihsprhah, who has become free from hankering, thirst; sarva-kamhyah, for all desirable objects, seen and unseen; is tada, then; ucyate, said to be; yuktah, Self-absorbed; yada, when; the viniyatam, controlled; cittam, mind, the mind that has been made fully one-pointed by giving up thought of external objects; avatisthate, rests; atmani eva, in the non-dual Self alone, i.e. he gets established in his own Self. An illustration in being given for the mind of that yogi which has become Self-absorbed:

Swami AdidevanandaRelay

6.18 When the subdued mind rests on the self alone, then, free of all yearning for objects of desire, one is said to be fit for Yoga.

Swami GambiranandaRelay

6.18 A man who has become free from hankering for all desirable objects is then said to be Self-absorbed when the controlled mind rests in the Self alone.

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