Bhagavad Gita 6.33 Meaning: Yoyam yogastvaya proktah

Bhagavad Gita 6.33

अर्जुन उवाच ।

योऽयं योगस्त्वया प्रोक्तः साम्येन मधुसूदन ।एतस्याहं न पश्यामि चञ्चलत्वात्स्थितिं स्थिराम् ॥

Yoyam yogastvaya proktah samyena madhusudanaEtasyaham na pashyami chanchalatvatsthitim sthiram

yo’yaṃ yogastvayā proktaḥ sāmyena madhusūdana |etasyāhaṃ na paśyāmi cañcalatvātsthitiṃ sthirām ||

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Our explanation Arjuna speaks. He tells Krishna, Madhusudana, that he cannot see how this yoga of evenness that Krishna has taught can last, because the mind is restless.

हिंदी अर्थ अर्जुन बोलते हैं। वे कृष्ण (मधुसूदन) से कहते हैं कि कृष्ण ने समत्व का जो योग बताया है, मन की चंचलता के कारण उन्हें उसकी स्थिर टिकाऊ अवस्था नहीं दिखती।

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यः yaḥ · which (pronoun (masculine), nominative singular) Dictionary: yad, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 844, col. 2 “who, which, what, whichever, whatever, that”
अयम् ayam · this (pronoun (masculine), nominative singular) Dictionary: 1. idam, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 165, col. 2 “this, this here, referring to something near the speaker”
योगः yogaḥ · yoga (noun (masculine), nominative singular) Dictionary: yoga, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 856, col. 2 “the act of yoking, joining, attaching”
त्वया tvayā · by you (Krishna) (pronoun, instrumental singular) Dictionary: 2. tva, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 463, col. 2 “base of the 2nd personal pron.”
प्रोक्तः proktaḥ · taught (past participle (masculine), nominative singular) Dictionary: prokta, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 690, col. 2 “announced, told, taught, mentioned”
साम्येन sāmyena · as evenness (noun (neuter), instrumental singular) Dictionary: sāmya, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1207, col. 2 “equality, evenness, equilibrium, equipoise”
मधुसूदन madhusūdana · O Madhusudana (Krishna) (noun (masculine), vocative singular) Dictionary: madhu-sūdana, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 780, col. 3 “destroyer of the demon Madhu”
एतस्य etasya · of this (pronoun (masculine), genitive singular) Dictionary: etad, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 231, col. 2 “this, this here, here”
अहम् aham · "I" (Arjuna) (pronoun, nominative singular) Dictionary: aham, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 124, col. 2 “nom. sg. ‘I,’”
न na · not (indeclinable) Dictionary: 2. na, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 523, col. 1 “ind. not, no, nor, neither”
पश्यामि paśyāmi · see (present, 1st person singular) Dictionary: 1. paś, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 611, col. 2 “behold, look at, observe, perceive, notice”
चञ्चलत्वात् cañcalatvāt · because of restlessness (noun (neuter), ablative singular) Dictionary: cañcala-tva, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 382, col. 2 “unsteadiness, fickleness”
स्थितिम् sthitim · steadiness (noun (feminine), accusative singular) Dictionary: sthiti, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1264, col. 2 “standing, staying, remaining, abiding”
स्थिराम् sthirām · firm (adjective (feminine), accusative singular) Dictionary: sthira, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1264, col. 3 “fixed, immovable, motionless, still, calm”

2 printings differ

Edition differences. Another printing or text reads this place differently.

The printed edition reads: योऽयं योगस्त्वया प्रोक्तः साम्येन मधुसूदन ।
एतस्याहं न पश्यामि चञ्जलत्वात्स्थितिं स्थिराम् ॥ The print reads चञ्जलत्वात्, with the ञ्ज ligature (the same sort as युञ्जन्, 6.28) for ञ्च; read as a wrong sort and corrected, because 6.26 and 6.34 print चञ्चल correctly and both proofreading references read चञ्चलत्वात्.
Spelling The 1922 Madras printing reads: एतस्याहं न पश्यामि चञ्जलत्वात्स्थितिं स्थिराम् The 1922 base printing (leaf n106) reads चञ्जलत्वात्, with the ञ्ज ligature (a wrong sort) for ञ्च, a printing flaw; see normalisations.

Bhagavad Gita 6.33: meaning and translation

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