6.8
ज्ञानविज्ञानतृप्तात्मा कूटस्थो विजितेन्द्रियः ।
युक्त इत्युच्यते योगी समलोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनः ॥
jñānavijñānatṛptātmā kūṭastho vijitendriyaḥ
yukta ity ucyate yogī samaloṣṭāśmakāñcanaḥ
Kṛṣṇa (कृष्ण) is still speaking.
The verse
The yogin whose self is satisfied by knowledge and by realized knowledge, who stands unmoved, whose senses are conquered, for whom a clod, a stone, and gold are the same, is called yoked.
नेपालीमा
ज्ञान र साक्षात् ज्ञानले आत्मा तृप्त भएको, अविचल उभिएको, इन्द्रिय जितेको योगी, जसका लागि माटोको डल्लो, ढुङ्गा र सुन उस्तै हुन्, त्यसलाई युक्त भनिन्छ।
Where it sits
6.7 was composure in the pairs. This verse gives the man a name, yukta (युक्त), and a hard equality. Gold and a clod. The next verse will spread that equality onto people.
Split: ज्ञान-विज्ञान-तृप्त-आत्मा + कूट-स्थः + विजित-इन्द्रियः + युक्तः + इति + उच्यते + योगी + सम-लोष्ट-अश्म-काञ्चनः
jñāna-vijñāna-tṛpta-ātmā + kūṭa-sthaḥ + vijita-indriyaḥ + yuktaḥ + iti + ucyate + yogī + sama-loṣṭa-aśma-kāñcanaḥ
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| देवनागरी | Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|---|
| ज्ञान-विज्ञान-तृप्त-आत्मा | jñāna-vijñāna-tṛpta-ātmā | nominative singular | whose self is satisfied by knowledge and by the knowing that has been made his own. |
| कूट-स्थः | kūṭa-sthaḥ | nominative singular | standing unmoved, set like a peak. |
| विजित-इन्द्रियः | vijita-indriyaḥ | nominative singular | whose senses are conquered. |
| युक्तः | yuktaḥ | nominative singular | yoked. |
| इति | iti | indeclinable | thus. Here, "called." |
| उच्यते | ucyate | present passive, 3rd singular | is called. |
| योगी | yogī | nominative singular | the yogin. |
| सम-लोष्ट-अश्म-काञ्चनः | sama-loṣṭa-aśma-kāñcanaḥ | nominative singular | one for whom a clod, a stone, and gold are the same. |
The phrases
The first line is one person, described three ways. His self is filled by jñāna (ज्ञान) and vijñāna (विज्ञान). He stands unmoved. His senses are conquered.
yuktaḥ iti ucyate yogī (युक्तः इति उच्यते योगी) is the naming. That yogin is called yoked. samaloṣṭāśmakāñcanaḥ (समलोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनः) is the test you can put in his hand. A clod, a stone, and gold weigh the same to him.
yuktaḥ iti (युक्तः इति) is recited yukta iti (युक्त इति), and iti ucyate (इति उच्यते) is ityucyate (इत्युच्यते). kūṭasthaḥ (कूटस्थः) before the voiced v (व्) is kūṭastho (कूटस्थो).
Sanskrit in this line
samaloṣṭāśmakāñcanaḥ (समलोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनः) is a bahuvrīhi, like asaṃnyastasaṅkalpaḥ (असंन्यस्तसङ्कल्पः) in 6.2. It does not mean "a same clod-stone-gold." It means a person for whom those three are sama (सम), the same. The last member carries the nominative. Inside the compound, loṣṭa (लोष्ट) plus aśma (अश्म) is loṣṭāśma (लोष्टाश्म), because a (अ) plus a (अ) becomes ā (आ).
Say it back
What he is called, and the three things that weigh the same. If kāñcana (काञ्चन) comes out as "a little gold, still special," stay here.