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Bhagavad Gita · 18.50 · Yoga through the Perfection of Renunciation and Surrender·50 of 78

सिद्धिं प्राप्तो यथा ब्रह्म तथाप्नोति निबोध मेसमासेनैव कौन्तेय निष्ठा ज्ञानस्य या परा

siddhiṁ prāpto yathā brahma tathāpnoti nibodha

me samāsenaiva kaunteya niṣhṭhā jñānasya yā parā

Sanskrit recitation

Toward inner perfection · 18.49–18.55 · Teaching

Translation

Learn from Me, O Arjuna, in brief how one who has attained perfection reaches Brahman—the Eternal, that supreme state of knowledge.

Meaning

When a man has the good fortune to hear the words of wisdom from a teacher, dualism and egoism vanish and his mind rests in union with the Supreme Being. The need for action no longer exists for such a man. Nothing further remains for him to do. He has become a Kritakritya (a man of total fulfilment, or one who has done all that there is to be done).The aspirant obtains the grace of the Lord by worshipping Hims with his proper duty. The Lord gives him dispassion, discrimination, devotion to knowledge. The Lord removes his veil of ignorance. To these ever harmonious, worshipping in love, I give the Yoga of discrimination by which they come unto Me. Out of My mere compassion for them, I, dwelling within their Self, destroy the darkness born of ignorance by the luminous lamp of knowledge. (X.10and11)The perfection is JnanaNishtha or devotion to knowledge by which he attains Selfrealisation or becomes identical with the Supreme Being when the veil of ignorance is rent asunder. The way to the attainment of this devotion to knowledge will be described only in a succint manner. The process or method of Selfrealisation will be described only in brief in the following verses.The actual technie has to be learnt direct from a Guna.

After Swami Sivananda

Toward inner perfection· 18.49–18.55

Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.

Word-by-word
me
from me
eva
indeed
which
parā
transcendental
brahma
Brahman
tathā
also
yathā
how
nibodha
hear
siddhim
perfection
āpnoti
attain
kaunteya
Arjun, the son of Kunti
samāsena
briefly
jñānasya
of knowledge
prāptaḥ
attained
niṣhṭhā
firmly fixed

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