Shloka 9

Mokṣa-dharma Yoga-Upadeśa: Equanimity, Sense-Restraint, and Vision of the Ātman (आत्मदर्शन-योगोपदेशः)

Devanagari script

वैराग्यबुद्धि: सततमात्मदोषव्यपेक्षक: । आत्मबन्धविनिर्मोक्षं स करोत्यचिरादिव

Transliteration

vairāgyabuddhiḥ satatam ātmadoṣavyapekṣakaḥ | ātmabandhavinirmokṣaṃ sa karoty acirād iva ||

Translation

જેની બુદ્ધિ સદા વૈરાગ્યમાં સ્થિર છે અને જે સતત પોતાના દોષો પર નજર રાખે છે—તે અચિરાત્ આત્માના બંધનોમાંથી મુક્તિ સાધે છે.

Word by Word

• वैराग्यबुद्धिः: one whose intellect is (fixed) in dispassion
• वैराग्यबुद्धिः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: वैराग्यबुद्धि
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• सततम्: always, constantly
• सततम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सततम्

• आत्मदोषव्यपेक्षकः: one who keeps watch on his own faults
• आत्मदोषव्यपेक्षकः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: आत्मदोषव्यपेक्षक
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• आत्मबन्धविनिर्मोक्षम्: release from one’s own bondage
• आत्मबन्धविनिर्मोक्षम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: आत्मबन्धविनिर्मोक्ष
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• सः: he
• सः: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• करोति: does, accomplishes
• Type: Verb
• Root: कृ
• Form: Present, Third, Singular, Parasmaipada

• अचिरात्: soon, in a short time
• अचिरात्: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अचिरात्

• इव: as if, like
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इव

Speaker

ब्राह्मण उवाच

Characters & Entities

• ब्राह्मण (Brahmin speaker)
• आत्मा (self)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Steady dispassion (vairāgya) combined with vigilant self-scrutiny (seeing one’s own doṣas) leads swiftly to freedom from inner bondage; craving and the sense of doership sustain bondage, while clear recognition of the world’s impermanence weakens it.

What is happening in the narrative?

A Brahmin speaker delivers an instruction on liberation: he describes the inner qualities—detachment, absence of desire, awareness of impermanence, and continual self-examination—that enable a person to break the bonds of the self.