6.27
प्रशान्तमनसं ह्येनं योगिनं सुखमुत्तमम् ।
उपैति शान्तरजसं ब्रह्मभूतमकल्मषम् ॥
praśāntamanasaṃ hy enaṃ yoginaṃ sukham uttamam
upaiti śāntarajasaṃ brahmabhūtam akalmaṣam
Kṛṣṇa (कृष्ण) is still speaking.
The verse
The highest happiness comes to this yogin whose mind is at peace, whose restless drive has gone quiet, who has become brahman, who is without stain.
नेपालीमा
मन शान्त भएको, चञ्चल जोश शान्त भएको, ब्रह्म बनेको, कलङ्करहित यस योगीकहाँ सर्वोच्च सुख आउँछ।
Where it sits
The bringing-back of 6.26 has a fruit. Happiness comes to him. It is not something he manufactures in the next verse's formula. 6.28 will say the same attainment as the touch of brahman (ब्रह्मन्).
Split: प्रशान्त-मनसम् + हि + एनम् + योगिनम् + सुखम् + उत्तमम् + उपैति + शान्त-रजसम् + ब्रह्म-भूतम् + अकल्मषम्
praśānta-manasam + hi + enam + yoginam + sukham + uttamam + upaiti + śānta-rajasam + brahma-bhūtam + akalmaṣam
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| देवनागरी | Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|---|
| प्रशान्त-मनसम् | praśānta-manasam | accusative singular | whose mind is at peace. Agrees with yoginam (योगिनम्). |
| हि | hi | indeclinable | indeed. |
| एनम् | enam | accusative singular | this. |
| योगिनम् | yoginam | accusative singular | the yogin. |
| सुखम् | sukham | nominative singular | happiness. Neuter nominative. |
| उत्तमम् | uttamam | nominative singular | highest. Agrees with sukham (सुखम्). |
| उपैति | upaiti | present, 3rd singular | comes to, approaches. उप-इ upa-i. |
| शान्त-रजसम् | śānta-rajasam | accusative singular | whose rajas (रजस्), the driving restlessness, has gone quiet. |
| ब्रह्म-भूतम् | brahma-bhūtam | accusative singular | who has become brahman (ब्रह्मन्). |
| अकल्मषम् | akalmaṣam | accusative singular | stainless. |
The phrases
सुखम् उत्तमम् उपैति sukham uttamam upaiti is the event. The highest happiness comes. The accusatives are who it comes to: this yogin.
praśāntamanasam (प्रशान्तमनसम्), śāntarajasam (शान्तरजसम्), brahmabhūtam (ब्रह्मभूतम्), and akalmaṣam (अकल्मषम्) all agree with enam yoginam (एनम् योगिनम्). Peaceful in mind, the drive gone quiet, become brahman (ब्रह्मन्), without stain.
hi enam (हि एनम्) is hyenam (ह्येनम्). सुखम् उत्तमम् sukham uttamam is sukhamuttamam (सुखमुत्तमम्).
Sanskrit in this line
upaiti (उपैति) takes the accusative of the person approached. The happiness is nominative, the subject, even though neuter sukham (सुखम्) looks like an accusative. You tell them apart by the verb and by yoginam (योगिनम्), which is visibly accusative. The happiness comes to the yogin. The yogin does not come to the happiness.
Say it back
What comes, and to whom. If the yogin is made the subject, "he approaches happiness," the accusative yoginam (योगिनम्) has been misread.