Sanskrit · Devanagari
तस्मात्त्वमिन्द्रियाण्यादौ नियम्य भरतर्षभ। पाप्मानं प्रजहि ह्येनं ज्ञानविज्ञाननाशनम् ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
tasmāttvamindriyāṇyādau niyamya bharatarṣabha pāpmānaṃ prajahi hyenaṃ jñānavijñānanāśanam
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Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882Therefore, O chief of the descendants of Bharata! first restrain your senses, then cast off this sinful thing which destroys knowledge and experience.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।3.41।। तस्मात् त्वम् इन्द्रियाणि आदौ पूर्वमेव नियम्य वशीकृत्य भरतर्षभ पाप्मानं पापाचारं कामं प्रजहिहि परित्यज एनं प्रकृतं वैरिणं ज्ञानविज्ञाननाशनं ज्ञानं शास्त्रतः आचार्यतश्च आत्मादीनाम् अवबोधः विज्ञानं विशेषतः तदनुभवः तयोः ज्ञानविज्ञानयोः श्रेयःप्राप्तिहेत्वोः नाशनं नाशकरं प्रजहिहि आत्मनः परित्यजेत्यर्थः।।इन्द्रियाण्यादौ नियम्य कामं शत्रुं जहिहि इत्युक्तम् तत्र किमाश्रयः कामं जह्यात् इत्युच्यते
4e8a8e84996c…Rāmānuja
3.41 For whatever reason a person engaged in Jnana Yoga, which is of the nature of abandoning the activities of all the senses, should control this enemy in the shape of desire which turns him away from the self through creating infatuation for objects of the senses - for the same reason, you, who are yoked to the activities of the senses by reason of being in conjunction with the Prakrti, should, in the beginning itself, i.e., at the very beginning of the practice of the means for release, control the senses by the practice of Karma Yoga, which provides for the regulation of the working of the senses. And then you must destroy, i.e., slay this sinful enemy, which is in the shape of desire and which destroys knowledge and discrimination, i.e., knowledge relating to the nature of the self and of the discriminative power, which is the means to gain this knowledge. Sri Krsna speaks of that which is most important among the adversaries:
736e09b775a0…Swami Sivananda
3.41 तस्मात् therefore? त्वम् you? इन्द्रियाणि the senses? आदौ in the beginning? नियम्य having controlled? भरतर्षभ O best of the Bharatas? पाप्मानम् the sinful? प्रजहि kill? हि surely? एनम् this? ज्ञानविज्ञाननाशनम् the destroyer of knowledge and realisation (wisdom).Commentary Jnana is knowledge obtained through the study of scriptures. This is indirect knowledge or Paroksha Jnana. Vijnana is direct knowledge or personal experience or Anubhava through Selfrealisation or Aparoksha Jnana. Control the senses first and then kill desire.
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