एक मूल शिक्षा · चिंतनशील भाव · थोड़ा संदर्भ सहायक
“Restraint can consume desire before desire consumes you.”
अन्य योगीलोग श्रोत्रादि समस्त इन्द्रियोंका संयमरूप अग्नियोंमें हवन किया करते हैं और दूसरे योगीलोग शब्दादि विषयोंका इन्द्रियरूप अग्नियोंमें हवन किया करते हैं ॥
श्लोक क्रम में — हर संस्कृत शब्द और नीचे उसका अर्थ। किसी शब्द पर जाकर उसे देखें।
शब्दशःhearing and the other senses · the senses · some others · into the fires of restraint · they offer · sound and the other objects · sense-objects · others · into the fires of the senses · they offer
Some seekers restrain the senses like a fire sacrifice. Others use the senses themselves to consume sense-objects, turning experience into a disciplined offering.
यह श्लोक Krishna द्वारा कहा गया है, कुरुक्षेत्र की भूमि पर, अध्याय "ज्ञान कर्म संन्यास योग" में।
श्लोक 26 भगवद् गीता के 4वें अध्याय में है — ज्ञान कर्म संन्यास योग। इस अध्याय में कुल 42 श्लोक हैं।
You open your phone to check one message and lose twenty minutes to noise. The real practice is not pretending desire is absent, but training attention before it carries you away.
Did you like this verse?
It shifts discipline from moral guilt to conscious redirection of sensory energy.
इस श्लोक का अर्थ
Some seekers restrain the senses like a fire sacrifice. Others use the senses themselves to consume sense-objects, turning experience into a disciplined offering.
संदर्भ और टिप्पणी
On Kurukshetra, Arjuna is frozen between action and collapse. Krishna explains inner discipline through sacrifice imagery: one seeker restrains the senses, another lets the senses burn away their own cravings. Both are part of the same training.
आज के जीवन में महत्व
You open your phone to check one message and lose twenty minutes to noise. The real practice is not pretending desire is absent, but training attention before it carries you away.
“Control is not repression; it is a deliberate redirection of appetite.”
संबंधित विषय: karma yoga (55 श्लोक), yajna (32 श्लोक), indriya (19 श्लोक)