Shloka 14
अव्यक्त–पुरुष–विवेकः (Discrimination of Avyakta/Prakṛti and Puruṣa) — Yājñavalkya’s Anvīkṣikī to Viśvāvasu
स्थिरीकृत्येन्द्रियग्रामं मनसा मिथिलेश्वर । मनो बुद्धया स्थिरं कृत्वा पाषाण इव निश्चल:
sthirīkṛtyendriyagrāmaṁ manasā mithileśvara | mano buddhyā sthiraṁ kṛtvā pāṣāṇa iva niścalḥ ||
বসিষ্ঠ ক’লে—হে মিথিলেশ্বৰ! যেতিয়া যোগীয়ে মনৰ দ্বাৰা সমগ্ৰ ইন্দ্ৰিয়সমূহক স্থিৰ কৰে আৰু বুদ্ধিৰ দ্বাৰা মনকেই দৃঢ় কৰি শিলাৰ দৰে অচঞ্চল হয়, তেতিয়া শাস্ত্ৰবিধি-জ্ঞ পণ্ডিতসকলে নিজৰ প্ৰত্যক্ষ অনুভৱৰ পৰাই তেওঁক যোগত প্রতিষ্ঠিত বুলি কয়।
वसिष्ठ उवाच
Educational Q&A
Yoga is defined here as inner steadiness: first restraining the senses through the mind, then stabilizing the mind through discriminative intellect (buddhi), until one becomes unwavering and motionless in concentration; such stability is what the śāstra-knowing wise recognize as genuine yogic attainment.
In Śānti Parva, Vasiṣṭha instructs the king of Mithilā (Janaka) on yogic discipline, describing the practical criterion by which a practitioner is deemed ‘yoga-yukta’: mastery over senses and mind culminating in unshakable stillness.