SB 11.19.25

SB 11.19.25

Devanagari

यदात्मन्यर्पितं चित्तं शान्तं सत्त्वोपबृंहितम् । धर्मं ज्ञानं सवैराग्यमैश्वर्यं चाभिपद्यते ॥ २५ ॥

Verse text

yadātmany arpitaṁ cittaṁ śāntaṁ sattvopabṛṁhitam dharmaṁ jṣānaṁ sa vairāgyam aiśvaryaṁ cābhipadyate

Synonyms

yadā when ; ātmani in the Supreme Lord ; arpitam fixed ; cittam consciousness ; śāntam peaceful ; sattva by the mode of goodness ; upabṛṁhitam strengthened ; dharmam religiosity ; jṣānam knowledge ; saḥ he ; vairāgyam detachment ; aiśvaryam opulence ; ca also ; abhipadyate achieves .

Translation

When one’s peaceful consciousness, strengthened by the mode of goodness, is fixed on the Personality of Godhead, one achieves religiosity, knowledge, detachment and opulence.

Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)

When one’s peaceful consciousness, strengthened by sattva, is fixed on Paramātmā, one achieves dharma, jṣāna, vairāgya and aiśvarya. What results remain to be obtained? The bhakti just described cannot be explained to be bhakti which is an aṅga of jṣāna. Bhakti which is an aṅga of jṣāna is different from that, and has the nature of sattva-guṇa. By that type of bhakti mixed with sattva-guṇa devotee with material desires attains dharma, jṣāna, vairāgya and aiśvarya. That is explained in this verse. When the peaceful mind absorbed in me, Paramātmā, concentrates on me with sattva-guṇa-bhakti, one achieves dharma, jṣāna, vairāgya and aiśvarya.

Purport

A pure devotee becomes peaceful, śānta, by desiring everything for the service of the Lord and nothing for himself. He is strengthened by the transcendental, or purified, mode of goodness and thus achieves the supreme religious principle of directly serving the Lord. He also achieves jṣāna, or knowledge of the Lord’s form and his own spiritual body, detachment from material piety and sin, and the opulences of the spiritual world. One who is not a pure devotee of the Lord, however, but whose devotion is mixed with a fascination for mystic knowledge, is strengthened by the material mode of goodness. Through his meditation on the Lord he achieves the lesser results of dharma (piety in the mode of goodness), jṣāna (knowledge of spirit and matter) and vairāgya (detachment from the lower modes of nature). Ultimately, one should be a pure devotee of the Lord, since even the best the material world has to offer is most insignificant compared to the kingdom of God.