युक्ताहारविहारस्य युक्तचेष्टस्य कर्मसु।युक्तस्वप्नावबोधस्य योगो भवति दुःखहा॥
yuktāhāra-vihārasya yukta-ceṣṭasya karmasuyukta-svapnāvabodhasya yogo bhavati duḥkha-hā
शब्दार्थ
व्याख्या अभी अंग्रेज़ी में उपलब्ध है। हिन्दी व्याख्या एक-एक अध्याय करके जोड़ी जा रही है।
श्लोक कहता है
For the one whose eating and moving are measured, whose effort in his work is measured, whose sleeping and waking are measured — the practice becomes a killer of sorrow.
सरल शब्दों में
The same point as the last verse, now put positively.
One word runs through it four times: yukta — measured, fitted, joined.
And the result gets an unusually strong name: duḥkha-hā, the killer of sorrow.
आपने इसे कहाँ महसूस किया है
You stop eating dinner at eleven and stop working past nine, and for a month nothing feels any different. Then you notice the bad weeks have stopped arriving. Nothing dramatic fixed it.
और गहराई में
Yukta is the same root as yoga, and using it four times for eating and sleeping is the whole argument.
The word means joined, but also fitted, apt, properly proportioned. So the sentence is quietly saying that a measured dinner and a measured bedtime are not preparation for the practice. They are instances of it.
That removes a distinction most people carry around, in which the spiritual part of life sits above the domestic part. Here the domestic part is where the word is being used.
Duḥkha-hā — sorrow-killer — is a strong claim for a verse about meals. But the claim is specific: regularity does not remove hardship, it removes the great deal of suffering that comes from being run down and then meeting hardship.
Which is the least mystical and most reliable thing this chapter says. A large share of what feels like despair at midnight is a fact about the hour rather than about your life.