संस्कृत
शुचौ देशे प्रतिष्ठाप्य स्थिरमासनमात्मनः । नात्युच्छ्रितं नातिनीचं चैलाजिनकुशोत्तरम् ॥
śucau deśe pratiṣṭhāpya sthiram āsanam ātmanaḥ nātyucchritaṃ nātinīcaṃ cailājinakuśottaram
अनुवाद
In a pure place, established on a fixed seat of his own, neither very much raised nor very low, made of a cloth, a black antelope skin, and kusha grass, one over the other;
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
व्याख्या
The instructions turn concrete: a clean, quiet spot, a stable seat, neither too high nor too low, layered cloth over antelope skin over kusha grass. The source print edition had a typo here (chelājina for chailājina), corrected in this text — a proofing fix, not a textual variant, though it does change the transliteration’s initial vowel. The specificity — three layers, a bounded height — is the point: the meditation instruction is practical, not symbolic, and expects to be followed literally.
गहराई से अध्ययन करें
शब्द-दर-शब्द
- śucau deśe pratiṣṭhāpyaशुचौ देशे प्रतिष्ठाप्य
- in a clean place, having set up (śucau + deśe + pratiṣṭhāpya)
- sthiram āsanam ātmanaḥस्थिरं आसनं आत्मनः
- one's own firm seat (sthiram + āsanam + ātmanaḥ)
- nātyucchritaṃ nātinīcaṃनात्युच्छ्रितं नातिनीचं
- neither too high nor too low (na + ati-ucchritam + na + ati-nīcam)
- cailājinakuśottaramचैलाजिनकुशोत्तरं
- with cloth, deerskin, and kuśa grass laid on it (caila-ajina-kuśa-uttaram)
टीका
Site Commentary
It’s easy to skim past a verse this specific — cloth, antelope skin, kusha grass, a seat neither too high nor too low — as mere ritual detail. But the specificity itself is the instruction: a teaching this careful about a physical seat is telling you that the container for practice matters as much as the practice, not incidental to it.
Original commentary written for this site · © Amit Singh — original commentary
Site Commentary — Second Reading
“Neither too high nor too low” sounds like a throwaway qualifier here, but it’s the same madhyama, middle-position principle the chapter names explicitly a few verses later for eating and sleeping. The seat instruction isn’t a separate concern from that later teaching on balanced living — it’s the same design principle applied first to furniture, before it’s applied to appetite and rest. Consistency of a principle across trivial and significant domains is itself part of what’s being taught here.
Original commentary written for this site · © Amit Singh — original commentary
अवधारणाएँ
इस श्लोक को अपनाएँ
पाठ
व्यक्तिगत
- Don't treat the physical setup for a habit you're building as a minor detail to sort out later — where you sit, what's around you, how comfortable but alert your body is, shapes whether the practice actually holds. Get the container right, deliberately.
व्यावसायिक
- When setting up a new focused-work habit, don't leave the environment to chance — the specific desk, the notification settings, the chair — treat it with the same deliberateness you'd give the actual task. The container isn't separate from the discipline.
परिवार और समाज
- If you want a weekly family ritual — a dinner, a call — to actually stick, be as deliberate about the physical and time setup as about the intention behind it. Vague good intentions rarely survive an unplanned container.
स्वयं से पूछें
इस श्लोक को पढ़ने से आगे ले जाने के कुछ तरीके। टिक और नोट इसी ब्राउज़र में रहते हैं।
इस श्लोक पर चिंतन करें
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