6.35
श्रीभगवानुवाच
असंशयं महाबाहो मनो दुर्निग्रहं चलम् ।
अभ्यासेन तु कौन्तेय वैराग्येण च गृह्यते ॥
śrībhagavān uvāca
asaṃśayaṃ mahābāho mano durnigrahaṃ calam
abhyāsena tu kaunteya vairāgyeṇa ca gṛhyate
Śrībhagavān (श्रीभगवान्) is speaking again. He grants Arjuna's description, then gives the means.
The verse
Kṛṣṇa (कृष्ण) said: Without doubt, mighty-armed one, the mind is hard to hold and it moves; but by practice, son of Kuntī, and by dispassion, it is grasped.
नेपालीमा
कृष्णले भने, शङ्का छैन, हे महाबाहु, मन समात्न गाह्रो छ र यो चल्छ। तर अभ्यासले, हे कुन्तीपुत्र, र वैराग्यले, यो पक्रिन्छ।
Where it sits
Arjuna compared the mind to the wind. The answer does not argue the comparison away. Practice and dispassion are the grasp. 6.36 will say for whom that grasp is possible.
Split: असंशयम् + महाबाहो + मनः + दुर्निग्रहम् + चलम् + अभ्यासेन + तु + कौन्तेय + वैराग्येण + च + गृह्यते
asaṃśayam + mahābāho + manaḥ + durnigraham + calam + abhyāsena + tu + kaunteya + vairāgyeṇa + ca + gṛhyate
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| देवनागरी | Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|---|
| असंशयम् | asaṃśayam | accusative as adverb | without doubt. |
| महाबाहो | mahābāho | vocative | mighty-armed. |
| मनः | manaḥ | nominative singular | the mind. |
| दुर्निग्रहम् | durnigraham | nominative singular | hard to hold down. |
| चलम् | calam | nominative singular | moving. |
| अभ्यासेन | abhyāsena | instrumental singular | by practice. |
| तु | tu | indeclinable | but. |
| कौन्तेय | kaunteya | vocative | son of Kuntī (कुन्ती). |
| वैराग्येण | vairāgyeṇa | instrumental singular | by dispassion. |
| च | ca | indeclinable | and. |
| गृह्यते | gṛhyate | present passive | it is grasped. From grah (ग्रह्). |
The phrases
asaṃśayam (असंशयम्) concedes the point. मनो दुर्निग्रहम् चलम् mano durnigrahaṃ calam agrees with Arjuna: the mind is hard to hold, and it moves.
abhyāsena tu (अभ्यासेन तु) is the turn. But by practice. vairāgyeṇa ca (वैराग्येण च) is the second means. And by dispassion. gṛhyate (गृह्यते) says the mind is grasped. He does not say it is easy. He says it is grasped by these two.
manaḥ durnigraham (मनः दुर्निग्रहम्) is mano durnigraham (मनो दुर्निग्रहम्).
Sanskrit in this line
abhyāsena (अभ्यासेन) and vairāgyeṇa (वैराग्येण) are instrumental of means, "by." gṛhyate (गृह्यते) is passive, so the mind is the subject and the means stay instrumental. There is no person in the instrumental here. The next verse will put the person there. manaḥ (मनः) before the voiced d (द्) is mano (मनो).
Say it back
He agrees, and then the two means. If vairāgyeṇa (वैराग्येण) is left out, practice is only half of the answer.