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Prashanta Manasam

Gita 6.27 Bhagavad Gita
📖 Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 6 — Atma Samyama Yoga
प्रशान्तमनसं ह्येनं योगिनं सुखमुत्तमम् ।
उपैति शान्तरजसं ब्रह्मभूतमकल्मषम् ॥
Prashanta-manasam hy enam yoginam sukham uttamam
Upaiti shanta-rajasam brahma-bhutam akalmmasham
प्रशान्तमनसम्
whose mind is deeply peaceful
हि एनम् योगिनम्
indeed, to this yogi
सुखम् उत्तमम् उपैति
supreme happiness comes
शान्तरजसम्
whose rajas (restless energy) is quieted
ब्रह्मभूतम्
who has become one with Brahman
अकल्मषम्
free from impurity, spotless

What happens when the practice described in 6.25 and 6.26 bears fruit? Krishna answers: supreme happiness. Not ordinary pleasure, not fleeting excitement — uttamam sukham, the highest joy there is.

Three conditions describe this yogi. His mind is deeply peaceful. His rajas — that restless, agitated energy that keeps the mind spinning — has gone quiet. And he has become 'brahma-bhuta': one with Brahman. That last phrase is striking. A drop of water that merges into the ocean does not disappear. It becomes the ocean. That is the state Krishna points to.

The word 'akalmasha' — spotless, free from impurity — rounds out the picture. This is not joy earned through struggle. It is the natural state that emerges when agitation falls away, the way clear sky appears when clouds move on.

Shlokas 6.24 through 6.27 trace a complete arc: renounce desires, still the mind gradually, bring it back when it wanders, and arrive at supreme peace. Each step builds on the last.

In Sankhya philosophy, rajas is the guna of restlessness and activity. When rajas quiets, sattva — clarity and balance — naturally rises. The Gita's 'shanta-rajasam' points to that transition.

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