Chapter 6 · Verse 20·Spoken by Krishna
यत्रोपरमते चित्तं निरुद्धं योगसेवया। यत्र चैवात्मनाऽऽत्मानं पश्यन्नात्मनि तुष्यति
yatroparamate chittaṁ niruddhaṁ yoga-sevayā yatra chaivātmanātmānaṁ paśhyann ātmani tuṣhyati
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Sanskrit recitation by Swami Brahmānanda
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At the time when the mind, restrained through the practice of Yoga, is withdrawn, and just when one sees the Self by the self and remains contented in the Self alone;
Swami Gambiranandaafter Śaṅkara's bhāṣya· paired with Śaṅkara
Where the mind, controlled through the practice of Yoga, rests, and where one sees the Self by the Self and is delighted by the Self alone.
Swami Adidevanandaafter Rāmānuja's bhāṣya· paired with Rāmānuja
Where the mind, restrained through yoga practice, remains still; and where, observing, the yogi finds satisfaction in the Self alone, by perceiving only the Self within.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayanafter Madhva's bhāṣya· paired with Madhva
When the mind, restrained by the practice of yoga, attains quietude, and when one sees the Self by the Self, they are satisfied in their own Self.
Swami SivanandaThe Bhagavad Gita
There, where the whole of nature is seen in the light of the Self, where the person abides within their Self and is satisfied there, their functions restrained by their union with the Divine, the mind finds rest.
Shri Purohit SwamiThe Geeta
When the mind comes to rest, checked, its ranging held back on every side, by the service of yoga, the carrying-out of yoga; and when, with the inner instrument purified by absorption, seeing, perceiving, the Self, the supreme consciousness whose nature is light, he is content in his own Self alone. Further.
Contemporary English rendering of the Sanskrit bhāṣya, pending scholar review.
The discipline in which the mind, by reason of the practice of the discipline restrained everywhere, comes to rest, delighting 'this very thing is the surpassing happiness'; and the discipline in which, seeing the self by the self, by the mind, he is content in the self alone, with no need of anything else.
Contemporary English rendering of the Sanskrit bhāṣya, pending scholar review.
This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.
Seeing, by the self, that is the mind, in the self, that is the body, the Self, that is the Lord.
Contemporary English rendering of the Sanskrit bhāṣya, pending scholar review.