Shloka 80
Adhyaya 43 — Portents of Death (Ariṣṭa-lakṣaṇas) and the Yogin’s Response; Alarka Renounces Kingship
निर्जितेन्द्रियवर्गस्तु त्यक्त्वा सङ्गमशेषतः ।
मनो ब्रह्मणि सन्धाय तज्जये परमो जयः ॥
nirjitendriya-vargas tu tyaktvā saṅgamaśeṣataḥ |
mano brahmaṇi sandhāya taj-jaye paramo jayaḥ ||
इन्द्रियगणं जित्वा, निरवशेषं आसक्तिं परित्यज्य, मनो ब्रह्मणि निधाय—तस्य जयः परमा जयः।
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FAQs
The real conquest is internal: mastery over the senses and attachments, culminating in steady contemplation of Brahman. Political victory is secondary to self-mastery.
Dharma/adhyātma upadeśa within narrative; not one of the five cosmological-genealogical lakṣaṇas in itself.
‘Victory over That’ suggests overcoming the last subtle duality—mind’s separation from the absolute—where even the impulse to ‘win’ dissolves into abiding awareness.