यतो यतो निश्चरति मनश्चञ्चलमस्थिरम्।ततस्ततो नियम्यैतदात्मन्येव वशं नयेत्॥
yato yato niścarati manaś cañcalam asthiramtatas tato niyamyaitad ātmanyeva vaśaṃ nayet
शब्दार्थ
व्याख्या अभी अंग्रेज़ी में उपलब्ध है। हिन्दी व्याख्या एक-एक अध्याय करके जोड़ी जा रही है।
श्लोक कहता है
From wherever the mind wanders off, restless and unsteady, from just there he should hold it in and bring it back under the self.
सरल शब्दों में
The most useful sentence in the chapter, and possibly in the book.
The mind will go. That is assumed, not lamented.
And the instruction is only this: bring it back from wherever it went.
आपने इसे कहाँ महसूस किया है
Your mind leaves the page. You bring it back. It leaves again eleven seconds later. Bringing it back is not the interruption of the practice — it is the practice.
और गहराई में
The grammar is doing something kind here that most translations flatten.
Yato yato — from wherever, wherever. Tatas tataḥ — from there, from there. Both doubled, both open-ended. The sentence is built to cover an unlimited number of repetitions without any of them being a failure.
That is the opposite of how people usually treat a wandering mind. The wandering is normally taken as evidence that it is not working, and the evidence accumulates until the person stops.
This verse removes the scoring entirely. There is no count. The instruction after the two hundredth departure is identical to the instruction after the first.
And it sits three verses before Arjuna says the mind cannot be held at all. The Gita gives you the method and then lets the objection be raised anyway, which is a sign of a text unusually confident about what it is offering.