प्रशान्तात्मा विगतभीर्ब्रह्मचारिव्रते स्थितः।मनः संयम्य मच्चित्तो युक्त आसीत मत्परः॥
praśāntātmā vigata-bhīr brahmacāri-vrate sthitaḥmanaḥ sanyamya mac-citto yukta āsīta mat-paraḥ
शब्दार्थ
व्याख्या अभी अंग्रेज़ी में उपलब्ध है। हिन्दी व्याख्या एक-एक अध्याय करके जोड़ी जा रही है।
श्लोक कहता है
— at peace, his fear gone, firm in the vow of a student, holding the mind in, thinking of me, he should sit, joined, with me as the highest thing.
सरल शब्दों में
The posture instructions end, and the last one is not physical.
Mat-cittaḥ — with the mind on me.
After all the detail about seats and necks, the final instruction is about where the attention is pointed.
आपने इसे कहाँ महसूस किया है
Your father has rung his mother every Sunday at six for twenty years. Nothing is ever discussed and there is no news. The call has never once been about information.
और गहराई में
The sequence ends somewhere the earlier verses did not predict.
Everything up to here has been technique: place, seat, spine, gaze, breath. Then the last item is devotional, and it is the only one that could not be described as a method.
That is the Gita's characteristic refusal to let its paths separate. The chapter everybody calls the meditation chapter puts a person at the end of its own instructions.
Brahmacāri-vrate sthitaḥ — firm in the vow of a student. The word covers celibacy and also, more broadly, the discipline of someone still learning. Both readings are current, and the second keeps the verse usable for a householder, which matters in a book that keeps insisting on householders.
And vigata-bhīḥ — fear gone — is listed as a condition rather than a result. You are asked to sit down already unafraid, which is either impossible or a hint that the sitting is not where the fear is dealt with.