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Bhagavad Gita 6.20

यत्रोपरमते चित्तं निरुद्धं योगसेवया।यत्र चैवात्मनाऽऽत्मानं पश्यन्नात्मनि तुष्यति॥

yatroparamate cittaṃ niruddhaṃ yogasevayā |yatra caivātmanā''tmānaṃ paśyannātmani tuṣyati ||

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.

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

There, where the whole of nature is seen in the light of the Self, where the person abides within their Self and is satisfied there, their functions restrained by their union with the Divine, the mind finds rest.

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.

Bhagavad Gita 6.20 · SatsangVidya