Chapter 6 Overview
Verse 6.20
यत्रोपरमते चित्तं निरुद्धं योगसेवया। यत्र चैवात्मनाऽऽत्मानं पश्यन्नात्मनि तुष्यति।।6.20।।
yatroparamate chittaṁ niruddhaṁ yoga-sevayā yatra chaivātmanātmānaṁ paśhyann ātmani tuṣhyati
Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 6, Verse 20
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Sanskrit to English Translation
Translator:
When the mind, restrained by the practice of yoga, attains quietude, and when one sees the Self by the Self, they are satisfied in their own Self.
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Why: that in which the mind, restrained by yoga practice, becomes still, and in which one sees the Self by the self, satisfied within, describes the practice's fruit as a kind of settled self-sufficiency.
In life: a mind that constantly needs external stimulation to feel okay is exhausting to live inside, day after day.
Teaching: build small windows of time where you deliberately need no external input, no phone, no entertainment, just to practice tolerating and eventually enjoying your own settled presence.
yatrawhen
uparamaterejoice inner joy
chittamthe mind
niruddhamrestrained
yoga-sevayāby the practice of yog
yatrawhen
chaand
evacertainly
ātmanāthrough the purified mind
ātmānamthe soul
paśhyanbehold
ātmaniin the self
tuṣhyatiis satisfied
Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)
Author:
6.20 यत्र where? उपरमते attains ietude? चित्तम् mind? निरुद्धम् restrained? योगसेवया by the practice of Yoga? यत्र where? च and? एव only? आत्मना by the Self? आत्मानम् the Self? पश्यन् seeing? आत्मनि in the Self? तुष्यति is satisfied.Commentary The verses 20? 21? 22 and 23 must be taken together.When the mind is completely withdrawn from the objects of the senses? supreme peace reigns within the heart. When the mind becomes ite steady by constant and protracted practice of concentration the Yogi beholds the Supreme Self by the mind which is rendered pure and onepointed and attains to supreme satisfaction in the Self within.