Shloka 5

Adhyāya 249 — Mṛtyu-prādurbhāvaḥ (The Manifestation of Death) / Restraint of Tejas and Ordered Saṃhāra

Devanagari script

तानि सर्वाणि संधाय मन:षष्ठानि मेधया । आत्मतृप्त इवासीत बहुचिन्त्यमचिन्तयन्‌

Transliteration

tāni sarvāṇi sandhāya manaḥ-ṣaṣṭhāni medhayā | ātma-tṛpta ivāsīt bahu-cintyam acintayan ||

Translation

ਬੁੱਧੀ (ਮੇਧਾ) ਨਾਲ ਮਨ ਨੂੰ ਛੇਵਾਂ ਮੰਨ ਕੇ ਸਾਰੀਆਂ ਇੰਦ੍ਰੀਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਇਕੱਠਾ ਕਰਕੇ ਥਿਰ ਕਰ ਦੇ; ਅਤੇ ਬਹੁਤ ਸਾਰੀਆਂ ਚਿੰਤਨਯੋਗ ਗੱਲਾਂ ਦੀ ਚਿੰਤਾ ਨਾ ਕਰਦਾ ਹੋਇਆ, ਆਤਮਾ ਵਿੱਚ ਤ੍ਰਿਪਤ ਜਿਹਾ, ਨਿਸ਼ਚਿੰਤ ਤੇ ਨਿਸ਼ਚਲ ਹੋ ਕੇ ਟਿਕ ਜਾ।

Word by Word

• तानि: those (things)
• तानि: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Plural

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

• संधाय: having composed/collected/steadied (having fixed together)
• संधाय: Karma
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम्-धा
• Form: ल्यप् (absolutive/gerund), Parasmaipada (usage), Non-finite

• मनःषष्ठानि: having the mind as the sixth (i.e., the five senses with mind as sixth)
• मनःषष्ठानि: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: मनस्-षष्ठ
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Plural

• मेधया: by intelligence
• मेधया: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: मेधा
• Form: Feminine, Instrumental, Singular

• आत्मतृप्तः: self-satisfied (content in the self)
• आत्मतृप्तः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: आत्मतृप्त
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

• आसीत: was
• Type: Verb
• Root: अस्
• Form: Imperfect (लङ्), 3, Singular, Parasmaipada

• बहुचिन्त्यम्: much-to-be-thought-about, highly thinkable
• बहुचिन्त्यम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: बहुचिन्त्य
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• अचिन्तयन्: not thinking (while refraining from thought)
• अचिन्तयन्: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: चिन्त्
• Form: शतृ (present active participle), Present (participle), Singular, Masculine, Nominative

Speaker

व्यास उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vyāsa
• ātman (Self)
• mind (manas)
• senses (indriyas)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse teaches inward stabilization: collect the senses and mind into unity through discernment (medhā), and rest in self-contentment (ātmatṛpti). Ethical clarity arises when one stops compulsive engagement with countless objects of worry and desire, becoming steady, unagitated, and self-possessed.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vyāsa describes a person (contextually, a contemplative or disciplined figure) withdrawing the scattered powers of perception and thought, fixing them through intelligence, and abiding in a state of calm self-satisfaction—no longer chasing or elaborating upon the many thinkable concerns that ordinarily disturb the mind.