Shloka 27
ध्यानयोगः — Dhyāna-Yoga
Discipline of Meditation and Mental Restraint
भीष्मपर्वणि तु सप्तविंशोडध्याय:,भीष्मपर्वमें सत्ताईसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ सर्वाणीन्द्रियकर्माणि प्राणकर्माणि चापरे । आत्मसंयमयोगाग्नौ जुद्दति ज्ञानदीपिते दूसरे योगीजन इन्द्रियोंकी सम्पूर्ण क्रियाओंको और प्राणोंकी समस्त क्रियाओंको ज्ञानसे प्रकाशित आत्म-संयमयोगरूप अग्निमें हवन किया करते हैं?
sarvāṇīndriya-karmāṇi prāṇa-karmāṇi cāpare | ātma-saṁyama-yogāgnau juhvati jñāna-dīpite ||
Others offer as a sacrifice all the activities of the senses and even the functions of the vital breaths into the fire of self-restraint, kindled and illumined by knowledge.
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.