2.69 या निशा सर्वभूतानां तस्यां जागर्ति संयमी। यस्यां जाग्रति भूतानि सा निशा पश्यतो मुनेः
yā niśā sarva
Word meanings
yā—which;niśhā—night;sarva-bhūtānām—of all living beings;tasyām—in that;jāgarti—is awake;sanyamī—self-controlled;yasyām—in which;jāgrati—are awake;bhūtāni—creatures;sā—that;niśhā—night;paśhyataḥ—see;muneḥ—sage
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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What is night for every other being, in that a man of self-restraint is awake; wherein every other being is awake, that is night for the sage who sees the truth.
The saint is awake when the world sleeps, and he ignores that for which the world lives.
What is night for all beings, in it the controlled one is awake; when all beings are awake, that is the night to the sage who sees.
The self-restrained man keeps awake during that which is night for all creatures. That during which creatures keep awake, it is night to the seeing sage.
That which is night to all beings, then the self-controlled man is awake; when all beings are awake, that is night for the sage who sees.
2.71 विहाय कामान्यः सर्वान्पुमांश्चरति निःस्पृहः। निर्ममो निरहंकारः स शांतिमधिगच्छति
vihāya kāmān
Word meanings
vihāya—giving up;kāmān—material desires;yaḥ—who;sarvān—all;pumān—a person;charati—lives;niḥspṛihaḥ—free from hankering;nirmamaḥ—without a sense of proprietorship;nirahankāraḥ—without egoism;saḥ—that person;śhāntim—perfect peace;adhigachchhati—attains
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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That person, who, by abandoning all desires, consumes [objects] without longing, without a sense of ownership, and without egotism, attains peace.
He attains Peace who, giving up desire, moves through the world without aspiration, possessing nothing which he can call his own, and free from pride.
The man who, abandoning all desires, abides without longing and possession and the sense of 'I' and 'mine', wins peace.
That man attains peace who, after rejecting all desires, moves about free from hankering, without the idea of ('me' and) 'mine', and devoid of pride.
The man attains peace, who, abandoning all desires, moves about without longing, without the sense of mine and without egoism.
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सांख्ययोग
Chapter 2: Sankhya Yoga
sāṃkhyayoga
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2.70 आपूर्यमाणमचलप्रतिष्ठं समुद्रमापः प्रविशन्ति यद्वत्। तद्वत्कामा यं प्रविशन्ति सर्वे स शान्तिमाप्नोति न कामकामी
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Word meanings
āpūryamāṇam—filled from all sides;achala-pratiṣhṭham—undisturbed;samudram—ocean;āpaḥ—waters;praviśhanti—enter;yadvat—as;tadvat—likewise;kāmāḥ—desires;yam—whom;praviśhanti—enter;sarve—all;saḥ—that person;śhāntim—peace;āpnoti—attains;na—not;kāma-kāmī—one who strives to satisfy desires
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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Just as waters enter into the ocean which is being filled continuously yet firmly established, so too he into whom all objects of desire enter—he attains peace; not he who longs for the objects of desire.
He attains Peace, into whom desires flow as rivers into the ocean, which though brimming with water remains ever the same; not he whom desire carries away.
He into whom all desires enter as the waters enter the full and undisturbed sea, attains to peace, and not he who longs after objects of desire.
That man attains peace into whom all desires enter in the same way as the waters flow into a sea that remains unchanged (even) when being filled up from all sides. Not so one who is desirous of objects.
He attains peace into whom all desires enter as waters enter the ocean, which, filled from all sides, remains unmoved; but not the man who is full of desires.
