Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 12, Verse 4
सन्नियम्येन्द्रियग्रामं सर्वत्र समबुद्धयः । ते प्राप्नुवन्ति मामेव सर्वभूतहिते रताः
sanniyamyendriyagrāmaṃ sarvatra samabuddhayaḥ | te prāpnuvanti māmeva sarvabhūtahite ratāḥ
Translation
Those who ever contemplate the Imperishable, the Indefinable, the Unmanifest, the Omnipresent and the Unthinkable, the Unchangeable, the Immutable, the Eternal — having restrained all the senses, always equanimous, intent on the welfare of all beings — they reach Myself.
— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri
Word meanings
- saṃniyamya
- having restrained
- indriyagrāmam
- of the senses, the aggregate
- sarvatra
- everywhere
- samabuddhayaḥ
- equal, understanding, whose, they
- te
- they
- prāpnuvanti
- obtain
- mām
- me
- eva
- even
- sarvabhūtahite
- (of) all, of beings, in welfare
- ratāḥ
- rejoicers
Śaṅkarācārya's commentary
They who contemplate the Imperishable, curbing all their senses, and always equanimous whether they come by the desirable or the undesirable, intent on the welfare of all beings — they come to Myself. It needs indeed no saying that they come to Me; for, it has been said that 'the wise man is deemed My very Self' (vii.18). Neither is it necessary to say that they are the best Yogins, seeing that they are one with the Lord Himself.