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Chapter 6

Chapter 6 · Verse 7

Dhyana Yoga

ध्यानयोग

जितात्मनः प्रशान्तस्य परमात्मा समाहितः | शीतोष्णसुखदुःखेषु तथा मानापमानयोः ||६-७||

jitātmanaḥ praśāntasya paramātmā samāhitaḥ . śītoṣṇasukhaduḥkheṣu tathā mānāpamānayoḥ ||6-7||

In plain words

The selfcontrolled Yogi who is rooted in the Self keeps poise amidst the pairs of opposites (Dvandvas) or the alternating waves of cold and heat pleasure and pain honour and dishonour. When the Yogi has subdued his senses when his mind is balanced and peaceful under all conditions when he is not in the least influenced by the pairts of opposites when he has renounced all actions then the Highest Self really becomes his own Self. He attains to Selfrealisation.

Translation

6.7 Of him whose mind is conered and who is serene, the great self is well secured in heat and cold, in pleasure and pain, and in honour and dishonour.

Meaning

The selfcontrolled Yogi who is rooted in the Self keeps poise amidst the pairs of opposites (Dvandvas) or the alternating waves of cold and heat pleasure and pain honour and dishonour. When the Yogi has subdued his senses when his mind is balanced and peaceful under all conditions when he is not in the least influenced by the pairts of opposites when he has renounced all actions then the Highest Self really becomes his own Self. He attains to Selfrealisation. As he rests in hiw own Self he is ever serene or tranil he is not affected by the pairs of opposites and he stands as adamant in the face of the changing conditions of Nature.

Word by word

जितात्मनः of the selfcontrolled प्रशान्तस्य of the peaceful परमात्मा the Supreem Self समाहितः balanced शीतोष्णसुखदुःखेषु in cold and heat pleasure and pain तथा as also मानापमानयोः in honour and dishonour.