Speaker: Śrī Kṛṣṇa
युञ्जन्नेवं सदात्मानं योगी विगतकल्मषः ।
सुखेन ब्रह्मसंस्पर्शमत्यन्तं सुखमश्नुते ॥२८॥
yuñjann evaṁ sadātmānaṁ
yogī vigata-kalmaṣaḥ
sukhena brahma-saṁsparśam
atyantaṁ sukham aśnute
Word for word (synonyms)
- yuñjan
- thus being engaged in *yoga* practice
- evam
- thus
- sadā
- always
- ātmānam
- self
- yogī
- one who is in touch with the Supreme Self
- vigata
- is freed from
- kalmaṣaḥ
- all material contamination
- sukhena
- in transcendental happiness
- brahma-saṁsparśam
- being in constant touch with the Supreme
- atyantam
- highest
- sukham
- happiness
- aśnute
- attains
Translation
Steady in the Self, being freed from all material contamination, the yogī achieves the highest perfectional stage of happiness in touch with the Supreme Consciousness.
Defined in the Gītā
Yogī
Who is a real yogī?
The Blessed Lord said: One who is unattached to the fruits of his work and who works as he is obligated is in the renounced order of life, and he is the true mystic: not he who lights no fire and performs no work.
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
Self-realization means knowing one's constitutional position in relationship to the Supreme. The individual soul is part and parcel of the Supreme, and his position is to render transcendental service to the Lord. This transcendental contact with the Supreme is called brahma-saṁsparśa.
What this verse teaches
Brahma-samsparśa platform (Realizing paramātma)
Śrīla Prabhupāda lectures 1
- Bhagavad-gītā 6.25–29 [Sāṅkhya Yoga System] 1969-02-18 · Los Angeles
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