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

Transliteration

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

Translation

风神伐由说道：“噢，帕尔塔啊，依我之见，当人的理解掺杂混乱之时，此事并不容易明了。觉知未曾正当成就之人——心神不定、未经调御——难以轻易把握。唯有内在自性清净者，方能真正知晓它，噢，昆蒂之子。”

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.