Word meanings
- buddhyā
- intellect
- viśuddhayā
- purified
- yuktaḥ
- endowed with
- dhṛtyā
- by determination
- ātmānam
- the intellect
- niyamya
- restraining
- ca
- and
- śabda-ādīn viṣayān
- sound and other objects of the senses
- tyaktvā
- abandoning
- rāga-dveṣau
- attachment and aversion
- vyudasya
- casting aside
- ca
- and
Translations
Endowed with a pure intellect, controlling the self through firmness, relinquishing sound and other objects and abandoning attraction and hatred.
Guided always by pure reason, bravely restraining himself, renouncing the objects of sense and giving up attachment and hatred; he attains peace.
Endowed with a pure intellect and controlling oneself with fortitude, one should reject the objects beginning from sound [sound, touch, form, color, taste, and smell - Tr.] and eliminate attachment and hatred.
जो विशुद्ध (सात्त्विकी) बुद्धिसे युक्त, वैराग्यके आश्रित, एकान्तका सेवन करनेवाला और नियमित भोजन करनेवाला साधक धैर्यपूर्वक इन्द्रियोंका नियमन करके, शरीर-वाणी-मनको वशमें करके, शब्दादि विषयोंका त्याग करके और राग-द्वेषको छोड़कर निरन्तर ध्यानयोगके परायण हो जाता है, वह अहंकार, बल, दर्प, काम, क्रोध और परिग्रहका त्याग करके एवं निर्मम तथा शान्त होकर ब्रह्मप्राप्तिका पात्र हो जाता है।Commentary
The lower self should be controlled with firmness by the Self of pure intellect. The turbulent senses and the mind should be subdued with the help of the pure intellect or reason. Pure reason is a great power. Whenever the senses raise their heads and hiss, they should be hammered by the powerful rod of pure intellect or reason. Reason is the faculty of determination. Pure intellect The intellect that is free from lust, anger, greed, pride, doubt, misconception, etc. It is like a clear mirror.
A pure intellect is Brahman Itself. It can be easily merged in Brahman. When the pure intellect is merged in Brahman, the reflected intelligence? Chidabhasa or Jiva, is also absorbed in Brahman. The Jiva becomes identical with Brahman, just as the ether in the pot becomes one with the universal ether when the pot is broken. The self The aggregate of the body and the senses. The aspirant withdraws the senses from their respective objects again and again through the repeated practice of Pratyahara (abstraction) and Dama (selfrestraint).
Gradually the senses are fixed in the Self. Their outgoing tendencies are totally curbed. The aspirant attains supreme control of the senses by constant meditation, by the practice of dispassion he coners Raga (attachment), and through the practice of pure love or cosmic love or divine Preme he coners hatred. He abandons all luxuries. He keeps only those objects which are necessary for the bare maintenance of the body. He has neither attachment nor hatred even for those objects which are necessary for that purpose.