Devanagari
जितेन्द्रियस्य दान्तस्य जितश्वासात्मनो मुने: ।
मद्धारणां धारयत: का सा सिद्धि: सुदुर्लभा ॥ ३२ ॥
Verse text
jitendriyasya dāntasya
jita-śvāsātmano muneḥ
mad-dhāraṇāṁ dhārayataḥ
kā sā siddhiḥ su-durlabhā
Synonyms
jita
—
indriyasya — of one who has conquered his senses
;
dāntasya
—
who is disciplined and self-controlled
;
jita
—
śvāsa — who has conquered his breathing
;
ātmanaḥ
—
and conquered the mind
;
muneḥ
—
of such a sage
;
mat
—
in Me
;
dhāraṇām
—
meditation
;
dhārayataḥ
—
who is conducting
;
kā
—
what is
;
sā
—
that
;
siddhiḥ
—
perfection
;
su
—
durlabhā — which is very difficult to achieve .
Translation
For a sage who has conquered his senses, breathing and mind, who is self-controlled and always absorbed in meditation on Me, what mystic perfection could possibly be difficult to achieve?
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
For a sage who has conquered his senses, his mind, his breathing and his nature, and who is always absorbed in meditation on me, what mystic perfection could possibly be difficult to achieve?
Dāntasya means “of a person who has controlled the mind.” Jita-śvāsātmanaḥ means “of the person who has controlled the breath and his customary nature.”
Purport
Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī comments as follows. “Lord Kṛṣṇa here expresses that there is no need to practice many different processes, for by completely carrying out even one of the above-mentioned procedures one controls one’s senses, becomes absorbed in Him and thus achieves all mystic perfections.”
Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī notes that one must meditate on the transcendental form of the Lord, which is free from any material designation. This is the essence of advancing in the
yoga
system; thus one acquires all mystic perfections very easily from the personal body of the Personality of Godhead.