18.52 Solitude, and eating lightly Krishna speaks
विविक्तसेवी लघ्वाशी यतवाक्कायमानसः
ध्यानयोगपरो नित्यं वैराग्यं समुपाश्रितः
vivikta-sevī laghv-āśhī yata-vāk-kāya-mānasaḥ
dhyāna-yoga-paro nityaṁ vairāgyaṁ samupāśhritaḥ
keeping to solitude, eating lightly, restrained in speech, body and mind, always intent on meditation, taking refuge in dispassion;
Explanation
Solitude, and eating lightly.
Restrained in speech, body and mind, always intent on meditation, taking refuge in dispassion.
Chapter 6's furniture returns without the furniture. And eating lightly is the same moderation 6.16 insisted on — the Gita's asceticism is always measured rather than heroic.
Word by word
- vivikta-sevī
- relishing solitude
- laghu-āśhī
- eating light
- yata
- controls
- vāk
- speech
- kāya
- body
- mānasaḥ
- and mind
- dhyāna-yoga-paraḥ
- engaged in meditation
- nityam
- always
- vairāgyam
- dispassion
- samupāśhritaḥ
- having taken shelter of
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