पूर्वाभ्यासेन तेनैव ह्रियते ह्यवशोऽपि सः।जिज्ञासुरपि योगस्य शब्दब्रह्मातिवर्तते॥
pūrvābhyāsena tenaiva hriyate hyavaśo ’pi saḥjijñāsur api yogasya śabda-brahmātivartate
शब्दार्थ
व्याख्या अभी अंग्रेज़ी में उपलब्ध है। हिन्दी व्याख्या एक-एक अध्याय करके जोड़ी जा रही है।
श्लोक कहता है
For by that very practice from before, he is carried along even against his will. And even one who merely wants to know about the practice goes past the word-infinite.
सरल शब्दों में
Two remarkable claims in one verse.
First: the old practice carries him avaśaḥ api — even unwilling, even without his consent.
Second: merely wanting to know about it already takes you past the scriptures.
आपने इसे कहाँ महसूस किया है
The habits from your first job still run your mornings, and you left that company eleven years ago. Nobody has taught them to you since. They were simply installed, and they did not ask.
और गहराई में
Avaśaḥ api — even unwilling — turns the chapter's own argument around.
Everything up to here has treated momentum as the enemy. Desire carries you off; the mind abducts you; the senses drag the understanding away. Here the same mechanism is working in your favour, and just as involuntarily.
That is worth sitting with. Whatever was practised does not need your continued agreement to keep operating. It has become part of how you are built, which is the thing habit does regardless of what the habit is for.
Then the second claim, which is startling in a tradition built on scripture. Śabda-brahma ativartate — he goes beyond the word-infinite, beyond the scriptures as words.
And the person doing it is only jijñāsuḥ, one who wants to know. Not an adept. Someone curious. The Gita is saying that a genuine wish to find out has already taken you past what the texts can hand over, which is a strange and generous thing for a text to say about itself.