Shloka 56

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

Devanagari script

नैतत्‌ पार्थ सुविज्ञेयं व्यामिश्रेणेति मे मतिः । नरेणाकृतसंज्ञेन विशुद्धेनान्तरात्मना,कुन्तीनन्दन! मेरा तो ऐसा विश्वास है कि जिसका चित्त व्यग्र है, जिसे ज्ञानका उपदेश नहीं प्राप्त है, वह मनुष्य इस विषयको सुगमतापूर्वक नहीं समझ सकता। जिसका अन्त:करण शुद्ध है, वही इसे जान सकता है

Transliteration

naitat pārtha suvijñeyaṁ vyāmiśreṇeti me matiḥ | nareṇākṛtasaṁjñena viśuddhenāntarātmanā, kuntīnandana!

Translation

وایو نے کہا—اے پارتھ! میرے نزدیک یہ بات اُس کے لیے آسانی سے سمجھ میں آنے والی نہیں جس کی سمجھ میں اختلاط اور انتشار ہو۔ جس کی آگاہی درست طور پر تشکیل نہ پائی ہو، جس کا ذہن بےقرار اور بےتربیت ہو—وہ اسے سہولت سے نہیں پا سکتا۔ صرف وہی شخص اسے حقیقتاً جان سکتا ہے جس کا باطن پاک ہو، اے کنتی کے فرزند۔

Word by Word

• {'na etat': 'not this

• not this matter (i.e., not easily accessible as a topic)', 'pārtha': 'son of Pṛthā (Kuntī)

• Arjuna', 'suvijñeyam': 'easily knowable

• readily understood', 'vyāmiśreṇa': 'mixed, confused, entangled (in thought/understanding)', 'iti': 'thus', 'me matiḥ': 'my opinion

• my considered view', 'nareṇa': 'by a man

• by a person', 'akṛta-saṁjñena': 'with unformed/uncultivated awareness

• lacking proper instruction or settled discernment', 'viśuddhena': 'by one who is purified

• pure', 'antar-ātmanā': 'with the inner self

• inwardly (with purified inner consciousness)', 'kuntī-nandana': 'delight/son of Kuntī

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vāyudeva
• Pārtha (Arjuna)
• Kuntīnandana (Arjuna/Kuntī)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

True understanding of subtle dharmic or spiritual matters requires inner purity and a settled, trained awareness; a confused or unprepared mind cannot grasp such knowledge easily.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vāyudeva addresses Arjuna (Pārtha, Kuntīnandana), cautioning him that the subject under discussion is not readily comprehended by someone with mixed understanding; only a person with a purified inner self can know it properly.