Shloka 36

Adhyāya 240: Indriya–Manas–Buddhi–Ātman — The Inner Hierarchy and Restraint (इन्द्रिय-मनस्-बुद्धि-आत्म-क्रमः)

Devanagari script

आत्मारामेण बुद्धेन बोद्धव्यं शुचिकर्मणा । इसे प्राप्त करनेके लिये साधक सब ओरसे मनको हटाकर शाम

Transliteration

ātmārāmeṇa buddhena boddhavyaṃ śucikarmaṇā | sattvasaṃsevanād dhīro nidrām ucchettum arhati ||

Translation

व्यास उवाच—आत्मारामेण बुद्धेन बोद्धव्यं शुचिकर्मणा ॥

Word by Word

• आत्मारामेण: by/with one who delights in the Self (self-contented person)
• आत्मारामेण: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: आत्माराम
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Singular

• बुद्धेन: by the wise/awakened (person)
• बुद्धेन: Karana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: बुद्ध
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Singular

• बोद्धव्यम्: is to be known/should be understood
• बोद्धव्यम्: Karma
• Type: Verb
• Root: बुध्
• Form: तव्यत् (gerundive), obligation/necessity, Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• शुचिकर्मणा: by pure action/with pure conduct
• शुचिकर्मणा: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शुचिकर्मन्
• Form: Neuter, Instrumental, Singular

Speaker

व्यास उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vyāsa

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Self-realization is supported by two complementary disciplines: (1) purity in conduct through prescribed, purifying duties, and (2) inner cultivation of sattva. When sattva predominates, the practitioner gains steadiness and can overcome nidrā understood not only as sleep but as tamasic torpor that blocks clarity and contemplation.

What is happening in the narrative?

Within the Śānti Parva’s instruction on liberation-oriented discipline, Vyāsa continues a didactic passage describing how a seeker should live: inwardly established in the Self, practicing purity of action, and strengthening sattva so that obstacles like dullness and sleep are subdued.