Verse-53
Chapter 2 — Sānkhya Yog
Verse 53
🕉 Original Sanskrit Shloka
śrutivipratipannā te yadā sthāsyati niścalā
samādhāvacalā buddhistadā yogamavāpsyasi
🕉 English Translation
📜 Translation
English
Your mind which has become bewildered on listening to several theories and principles becomes unmoving and established in the Lord. Then you will attain to the Yoga of Evenness of the Intellect.
Though the goal is just one, and towards that saints and scriptures direct but many a time the way it is told and made understood, or the way it is heard or having heard the way it is acquired and understood the right intellect gets confused or gets embroiled in arguments and counter-arguments. This fact is also of great significance in this context that for knowing and understanding and for treading onto the right path the enquiry is good. Sages and scriptures have also consented for the same. But arguments and counter-arguments and then illogical arguments are nowhere acceptable on the path of spirituality. On being questioned by Yaksha (demigod) Yudhisthir cautions–'tarkoapratishthasruityo vibhinaa' arguments have no significance or basis; the shrutis expound different viewpoints. Even if it is to be understood in a right perspective. In accordance with the state of human mentality different means have been described in Shrutis. In them in most cases intellect gets wavered. Should I do this or that? Because of the inability to understand rightly some kind of confusion arises. In this state only one thing can bring stability, that is the vision fixed on the goal. Goal is the Supreme. The Shrutis describe the means of attaining the goal. Work with good sense. Awaken your discrimination. Assess your mentality. What are the means best suited to me. Adopt those means; be steadfast in them. Hear, grasp but accept that one has to move forward towards the goal by adopting one of the means. Once the vision is fixed on the target then the possibilties of getting wavered will be naturally weakened.
The attainment of Yoga is an inner state; it is not an external activity. Where all actions fall silent, where the propensities of attachment and egoism also come to rest; mental agitation ends and intellect also unmovingly becomes established in the Lord meaning that even intellect attains a state beyond actions; this state is of the attainment of Yoga.