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यदा हि नेन्द्रियार्थेषु न कर्मस्वनुषज्जते। सर्वसङ्कल्पसंन्यासी योगारूढस्तदोच्यते।।6.4।।

yadā hi nendriyārtheṣhu na karmasv-anuṣhajjate sarva-saṅkalpa-sannyāsī yogārūḍhas tadochyate

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 6, Verse 4
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
When a person is not attached to the sense-objects or to actions, having renounced all thoughts, then they are said to have attained Yoga.

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Why: one is said to have attained yoga when they are not attached to sense objects or actions, having renounced all intentions, describing a specific, recognizable marker of progress rather than a vague feeling.

In life: it helps enormously to have a concrete sign of progress rather than only a subjective sense of whether you're getting better at something.

Teaching: define a concrete, observable marker for your own progress in whatever you're practicing, rather than relying only on how you feel about it day to day.

yadāwhen
hicertainly
nanot
indriya-artheṣhufor sense-objects
nanot
karmasuto actions
anuṣhajjateis attachment
sarva-saṅkalpaall desires for the fruits of actions
sanyāsīrenouncer
yoga-ārūḍhaḥelevated in the science of Yog
tadāat that time
uchyateis said

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
6.4 यदा when? हि verily? न not? इन्द्रयार्थेषु in senseobjects? न not? कर्मसु in actions? अनुषज्जते is attached? सर्वसङ्कल्पसंन्यासी renouncer of all thoughts? योगारूढः one who has attained to Yoga? तदा then? उच्यते is said.Commentary Yogarudha he who is enthroned or established in Yoga. When a Yogi? by keeping the mind ite steady? by withdrawing it from the objects of the senses? has attachment neither for sensual objects such as sound? nor for the actions (Karmas? Cf. notes to V.13)? knowing that they are of no use to him when he has renounced all thoughts which generate various sorts of desires for the objects of this world and of the next? then he is said to have become a Yogarudha.Do not think of senseobjects. The desires will die by themselves. How can you free yourself from thinking of the objects Think of God or the Self. Then you can avoid thinking of the objects. Then you can free yourself from thinking of the objects of the senses.Renunciation of thoughts implies that all desires and all actions should be renounced? because all desires are born of thoughts. You think first and then act (strive) afterwards to possess the objects of your desire for enjoyment.Whatever a man desires? that he willsAnd whatever he wills? that he does. -- Brihadaranyaka Upanishad? 4.4.5Renunciation of all actions necessarily follows from the renunciation of all desires.O desire I know where thy root lies. Thou art born of Sankalpa (thought). I will not think of thee and thou shalt cease to exist along with the root. -- Mahabharata? Santi Parva? 177.25Indeed desire is born of thought (Sankalpa)? and of thought? Yajnas are born. -- Manu Smriti? II.2