Shloka 7
अव्यक्तकालमान-निर्णयः
Measures of Time from the Unmanifest; Creation, Elements, and the Primacy of Mind
हंस उवाच इदं कार्यममृताशा: शृणोमि तपो दम: सत्यमात्माभिगुप्ति: । ग्रन्थीन् विमुच्य हृदयस्य सर्वान् प्रियाप्रिये स्वं वशमानयीत
haṃsa uvāca | idaṃ kāryam amṛtāśāḥ śṛṇomi tapo damaḥ satyam ātmābhiguptiḥ | granthīn vimucya hṛdayasya sarvān priyāpriye svaṃ vaśam ānayet |
The Haṃsa said: “O you who seek the deathless (immortality), I have heard that these are the highest disciplines to be undertaken—ascetic effort, restraint of the senses, truthfulness, and vigilant self-guarding. Having loosened every knot of the heart, one should bring both the pleasant and the unpleasant under one’s control—so that neither delight nor grief rules the mind.”
हंस उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches inner mastery: cultivate tapas (disciplined effort), dama (sense-restraint), satya (truthfulness), and vigilant self-guarding, and untie the heart’s knots of attachment so that pleasure and pain no longer dominate one’s responses.
Haṃsa, speaking as a spiritual instructor, addresses seekers of the deathless and summarizes the practical disciplines that lead toward liberation: ethical truth, restraint, austerity, and detachment from emotional reactivity to what is liked or disliked.