Shloka 10

ध्यानयोगः — Dhyāna-Yoga

Discipline of Meditation and Mental Restraint

Devanagari script

वीतरागभयक्रोधा मन्मयाः मामुपाश्रिता:३ | बहवो ज्ञानतपसा पूता मद्भावमागता:

Transliteration

vītarāgabhayakrodhā manmayāḥ mām upāśritāḥ | bahavo jñānatapasā pūtā madbhāvam āgatāḥ ||

Translation

Frei von Anhaftung, Furcht und Zorn, in Mich versenkt und bei Mir Zuflucht nehmend, sind viele durch die Askese wahren Wissens geläutert worden und haben Meinen Seinszustand erlangt.

Word by Word

• वीत: freed (from)
• वीत: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: वि-इ (धातु) → वीत (कृदन्त)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• राग: from attachment
• राग: Apadana
• Type: Noun
• Root: राग (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Ablative, Singular

• भय: from fear
• भय: Apadana
• Type: Noun
• Root: भय (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter, Ablative, Singular

• क्रोधाः: anger (as something abandoned)
• क्रोधाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: क्रोध (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• मन्मयाः: consisting of Me; absorbed in Me
• मन्मयाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: मन्मय (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• माम्: me
• माम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: अस्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: —, Accusative, Singular

• उपाश्रिताः: having taken refuge (in)
• उपाश्रिताः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: उप-आ-श्रि (धातु) → उपाश्रित (कृदन्त)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• बहवः: many
• बहवः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: बहु (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• ज्ञान: by knowledge
• ज्ञान: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: ज्ञान (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter, Instrumental, Singular

• तपसा: by austerity
• तपसा: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: तपस् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter, Instrumental, Singular

• पूताः: purified
• पूताः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पू (धातु) → पूत (कृदन्त)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• मद्भावम्: My state/being; My nature
• मद्भावम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: मद् + भाव (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• आगताः: have come; have attained
• आगताः: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: आ-गम् (धातु) → आगत (कृदन्त)
• Form: Perfective (past participle used predicatively), —, Plural

Speaker

अजुन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• mām (the Lord, i.e., Śrī Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Liberation is attained by inner purification: abandoning attachment, fear, and anger; becoming wholly oriented to the Divine; and being refined through disciplined knowledge that culminates in reaching the Lord’s state (madbhāva).

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Bhīṣma Parva’s teaching context, the speaker states that many seekers, by taking refuge in the Lord and practicing knowledge-based discipline, have become purified and attained the Lord’s own mode of being—presented as a precedent and assurance for the listener amid the war’s moral crisis.