Shloka 27
ध्यानयोगः — Dhyāna-Yoga
Discipline of Meditation and Mental Restraint
भीष्मपर्वणि तु सप्तविंशोडध्याय:
sarvāṇīndriya-karmāṇi prāṇa-karmāṇi cāpare | ātma-saṁyama-yogāgnau juhvati jñāna-dīpite ||
আন কিছুমান যোগীয়ে ইন্দ্ৰিয়সমূহৰ সকলো ক্ৰিয়া আৰু প্ৰাণসমূহৰ সকলো ক্ৰিয়াক জ্ঞানদ্বাৰা দীপ্ত আত্মসংযম-যোগৰূপ অগ্নিত আহুতি দিয়ে।
अजुन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches an inner form of yajña: instead of external offerings, the practitioner offers the activities of the senses and the movements of the vital breaths into the ‘fire’ of self-restraint, sustained by clear knowledge. Ethical mastery comes from disciplined, knowing regulation of one’s faculties.
In the Gītā discourse on various kinds of sacrifice, a category of yogins is described: they practice inward austerity and control, treating sensory and prāṇic activity as oblations, and self-restraint as the sacrificial fire illuminated by wisdom.