18.50 सिद्धिं प्राप्तो यथा ब्रह्म तथाप्नोति निबोध मे।समासेनैव कौन्तेय निष्ठा ज्ञानस्य या परा
siddhiṃ prāpto yathā brahma tath
Word meanings
siddhim—perfection;prāptaḥ—attained;yathā—how;brahma—Brahman;tathā—also;āpnoti—attain;nibodha—hear;me—from me;samāsena—briefly;eva—indeed;kaunteya—Arjun, the son of Kunti;niṣhṭhā—firmly fixed;jñānasya—of knowledge;yā—which;parā—transcendental
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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Having attained success, how one attains Brahman—an attainment which is confirmed to be the final beatitude of true knowledge—that you must learn from Me briefly.
I will now state briefly how he, who has reached perfection, finds the Eternal Spirit, the state of Supreme Wisdom.
Learn from me in brief, O Arjuna, how, one who has attained perfection, attains the brahman (or the self), who is the supreme consummation of knowledge.
Understand for certain from Me, in brief indeed, O son of Kunti, that process by which one who has achieved success attains Brahman, which is the supreme consummation of Knowledge.
Learn from Me in brief, O Arjuna, how he who has attained perfection reaches Brahman, that supreme state of knowledge.
18.52 विविक्तसेवी लघ्वाशी यतवाक्कायमानसः।ध्यानयोगपरो नित्यं वैराग्यं समुपाश्रितः
vivikta
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vivikta-sevī—relishing solitude;laghu-āśhī—eating light;yata—controls;vāk—speech;kāya—body;mānasaḥ—and mind;dhyāna-yoga-paraḥ—engaged in meditation;nityam—always;vairāgyam—dispassion;samupāśhritaḥ—having taken shelter of
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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Who enjoys solitude, eats sparingly, has controlled their speech, body, and mind; who is devoted to the practice of meditation and yoga; and who has taken refuge in perpetual desirelessness;
Enjoying solitude, abstemiousness, his body, mind and speech under perfect control, absorbed in meditation, he becomes free - always filled with the spirit of renunciation.
Resorting to solitude, eating but little, restraining speech, body and mind, ever engaged in the Yoga of meditation and taking refuge in dispassion;
One who resorts to solitude, eats sparingly, has speech, body and mind under control, to whom meditation and concentration are ever the highest (duty), and who is possessed of dispassion;
Dwelling in solitude, eating but little, with speech, body and mind subdued, always engaged in concentration and meditation, taking refuge in dispassion,
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मोक्षसंन्यासयोग
Chapter 18: Free Yourself Through Renunciation
mokṣasaṃnyāsayoga
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18.51 बुद्ध्या विशुद्धया युक्तो धृत्याऽऽत्मानं नियम्य च।शब्दादीन् विषयांस्त्यक्त्वा रागद्वेषौ व्युदस्य च
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Word meanings
buddhyā—intellect;viśhuddhayā—purified;yuktaḥ—endowed with;dhṛityā—by determination;ātmānam—the intellect;niyamya—restraining;cha—and;śhabda-ādīn viṣhayān—sound and other objects of the senses;tyaktvā—abandoning;rāga-dveṣhau—attachment and aversion;vyudasya—casting aside;cha—and
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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He who has attained a completely pure intellect by firmly controlling his mind and renouncing sense-objects, sound, and driving out desire and hatred;
Guided always by pure reason, bravely restraining himself, renouncing the objects of sense and giving up attachment and hatred;
Endowed by a purified understanding, subduing the mind by steadiness, relinquishing sound and other objects of the senses and casting aside love and hate;
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;
Endowed with a pure intellect, controlling the self by firmness, relinquishing sound and other objects and abandoning both hatred and attraction,
