Speaker: Śrī Kṛṣṇa
योऽन्तःसुखोऽन्तरारामस्तथान्तर्ज्योतिरेव यः ।
स योगी ब्रह्मनिर्वाणं ब्रह्मभूतोऽधिगच्छति ॥२४॥
yo 'ntaḥ-sukho 'ntar-ārāmas
tathāntar-jyotir eva yaḥ
sa yogī brahma-nirvāṇaṁ
brahma-bhūto 'dhigacchati
Word for word (synonyms)
- yaḥ
- one who
- antaḥ-sukhaḥ
- happy from within
- antaḥ-ārāmah
- active within
- tathā
- as well as
- antaḥ-jyotiḥ
- aiming within
- eva
- certainly
- yaḥ
- anyone
- saḥ
- he
- yogī
- mystic
- brahma-nirvāṇam
- liberated in the Supreme
- brahma-bhūtaḥ
- self-realized
- adhigacchati
- attains
Translation
One whose happiness is within, who is active within, who rejoices within and is illumined within, is actually the perfect mystic. He is liberated in the Supreme, and ultimately he attains the Supreme.
Defined in the Gītā
Happiness
What is real happiness?
O best of the Bhāratas, now please hear from Me about the three kinds of happiness which the conditioned soul enjoys, and by which he sometimes comes to the end of all distress. That which in the beginning may be just like poison but at the end is just like nectar and which awakens one to self-realization is said to be happiness in the mode of goodness.
Purport
Unless one is able to relish happiness from within, how can one retire from the external engagements meant for deriving superficial happiness? A liberated person enjoys happiness by factual experience. He can, therefore, sit silently at any place and enjoy the activities of life from within. Such a liberated person no longer desires external material happiness. This state is called brahma-bhūta, attaining which one is assured of going back to Godhead, back to home.
What this verse teaches
Delighting inwards (brahma-bhūta stage)
In thematic compilations 1
- A self-satisfied person ultimately attains the Supreme. (5.24 yo 'ntaḥ-sukho...)
Śrīla Prabhupāda lectures 2
- Bhagavad-gītā 5.22–29 1966-08-31 · New York
- Bhagavad-gītā 5.17–25 1969-02-08 · Los Angeles
Bhagavad-gītā As It Is by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda © The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International.