Shloka 27

ध्यानयोगः — Dhyāna-Yoga

Discipline of Meditation and Mental Restraint

Devanagari script

भीष्मपर्वणि तु सप्तविंशोडध्याय:

Transliteration

sarvāṇīndriya-karmāṇi prāṇa-karmāṇi cāpare | ātma-saṁyama-yogāgnau juhvati jñāna-dīpite ||

Translation

മറ്റുചില യോഗികൾ ഇന്ദ്രിയങ്ങളുടെ എല്ലാ പ്രവർത്തനങ്ങളെയും പ്രാണങ്ങളുടെ എല്ലാ പ്രവർത്തനങ്ങളെയും ജ്ഞാനത്താൽ ദീപ്തമായ ആത്മസംയമയോഗരൂപ അഗ്നിയിൽ ആഹുതിയാക്കുന്നു.

Word by Word

• सर्वाणि: all
• सर्वाणि: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Plural

• इन्द्रियकर्माणि: actions of the senses
• इन्द्रियकर्माणि: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: इन्द्रियकर्मन्
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Plural

• प्राणकर्माणि: actions of the vital breaths
• प्राणकर्माणि: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्राणकर्मन्
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Plural

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• अपरे: others (some others)
• अपरे: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अपर
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• आत्मसंयमयोगाग्नौ: in the fire of the yoga of self-restraint
• आत्मसंयमयोगाग्नौ: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: आत्मसंयमयोगाग्नि
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• जुह्वति: offer (as oblation)
• Type: Verb
• Root: हु
• Form: Present, Third, Plural, Parasmaipada

• ज्ञानदीपिते: kindled/illumined by knowledge
• ज्ञानदीपिते: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: ज्ञानदीपित
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

Speaker

अजुन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Arjuna
• indriyas (sense-faculties)
• prāṇa (vital breaths)
• yogāgni (the fire of yogic discipline)
• jñāna (knowledge)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

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.

What is happening in the narrative?

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.