Next Verse→

Shloka 412

ध्यानयोगः — Dhyāna-Yoga

Discipline of Meditation and Mental Restraint

Devanagari script

योगसंन्यस्तकर्माणं ज्ञानसंछिन्नसंशयम्‌ । आत्मवन्तं न कर्माणि निबध्नन्ति धनंजय

Transliteration

yogasaṁnyastakarmāṇaṁ jñānasaṁchinnasaṁśayam | ātmavantaṁ na karmāṇi nibadhnanti dhanaṁjaya ||

Translation

Arjuna nói: Người đã đặt mọi hành động vào Yoga, người mà mọi nghi hoặc đã bị tri kiến chân thật chém đứt, và người tự chủ—kẻ ấy không bị hành động trói buộc, hỡi Dhanañjaya.

Word by Word

योगसंन्यस्तकर्माणम्one whose actions are renounced/laid down through yoga

ज्ञानसंछिन्नसंशयम्one whose doubts are cut off by knowledge

आत्मवन्तम्self-possessed; self-controlled

नnot

कर्माणिactions

निबध्नन्तिbind; fetter

धनंजयO Dhanañjaya (Arjuna)

Speaker

अजुन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Arjuna

Dhanañjaya (Arjuna)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Actions bind when done with egoic ownership and attachment to results; when actions are offered into Yoga, doubts are removed by knowledge, and the person is self-possessed, the same actions no longer create bondage.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the battlefield dialogue, Arjuna voices a doctrinal point about how inner renunciation and knowledge transform the moral status of action: even amid war and duty, one can act without being spiritually bound if grounded in Yoga, clarity, and self-mastery.