योगशब्दव्युत्पत्तिःThe meaning of the word yoga
Verse 124
ब्रह्मज्ञानं परं ज्ञानं यस्य चित्ते विराजते । किं तस्य जपयज्ञाद्यैस्तपोभिर्नियमव्रतैः ॥ १२४ ॥
brahmajñānaṁ paraṁ jñānaṁ yasya cittē virājatē | kiṁ tasya japayajñādyaistapōbhirniyamavrataiḥ || 124 ||
Translation
If the knowledge of Brahman, the highest knowledge, shines in one's mind, what use to him are japa, sacrifice and the rest, austerities, rules and vows?
Word by word
- brahma
- of Brahman
- jñānaṁ
- the knowledge
- paraṁ
- highest
- yasya
- whose
- cittē
- in the mind
- virājatē
- shines
- kiṁ
- what use
- tasya
- to him
- japa
- japa
- yajña
- sacrifice
- ādyais
- (ādyaiḥ) and the rest
- tapōbhir
- (tapobhiḥ) austerities
- niyama
- rules
- vrataiḥ
- and vows
Meaning
The question is rhetorical, and it reaches past the rites of this Tantra to the disciplines of yoga too. All the means named here belong to the road and not to the one who has arrived.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
See the commentary on verse 123.