Shloka 15

अक्षरब्रह्मयोगः | Akṣara-Brahma-Yoga

The Yoga of the Imperishable Brahman

Devanagari script

युज्जन्नेवं सदा$5त्मानं योगी नियतमानस: । शान्तिं निर्वाणपरमां मत्संस्थामधिगच्छति

Transliteration

yujjann evaṁ sadātmānaṁ yogī niyata-mānasaḥ | śāntiṁ nirvāṇa-paramāṁ mat-saṁsthām adhigacchati ||

Translation

心已受持调御之瑜伽行者，如是恒常系缚其我于神圣者，得至上寂静，其极致为解脱——安住于我。

Word by Word

• युज्जन्: joining, engaging (himself)
• युज्जन्: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: युज्
• Form: शतृ (वर्तमान कृदन्त), पुं, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• एवम्: thus, in this manner
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एवम्

• सदा: always
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सदा

• आत्मानम्: the self
• आत्मानम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: आत्मन्
• Form: पुं, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• योगी: the yogin
• योगी: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: योगिन्
• Form: पुं, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• नियतमानसः: one whose mind is controlled
• नियतमानसः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: नियत-मानस
• Form: पुं, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• शान्तिम्: peace
• शान्तिम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: शान्ति
• Form: स्त्री, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• निर्वाणपरमाम्: having nirvāṇa as the highest (supreme nirvāṇa)
• निर्वाणपरमाम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: निर्वाण-परमा
• Form: स्त्री, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• मत्संस्थाम्: abiding in me, situated in me
• मत्संस्थाम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: मत्-संस्था
• Form: स्त्री, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• अधिगच्छति: attains, reaches
• Type: Verb
• Root: अधि-गम्
• Form: लट्, वर्तमान, प्रथम, एकवचन

Speaker

अर्जुन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Arjuna
• Krishna (implied by 'Me')
• yogin

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Steady inner discipline—continually yoking the self through regulated mind—leads to the highest peace, culminating in liberation, described as abiding in the Divine.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Bhīṣma Parva’s spiritual instruction context, Arjuna voices a doctrinal point about the yogin’s practice and its fruit: supreme peace and liberation through constant establishment in Krishna.