Chapter 6 · The Yoga of Meditation

श्रीकृष्णŚrī Kṛṣṇa speaks

Text 6.32

आत्मौपम्येन सर्वत्र समं पश्यति योऽर्जुन सुखं वा यदि वा दु:खं स योगी परमो मत:

ātmaupamyena sarvatra samaṁ paśhyati yo ’rjuna sukhaṁ vā yadi vā duḥkhaṁ sa yogī paramo mataḥ

Recitation · Text 6.32
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Word-for-Word Śabda-Artha (15 words)

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Purport Overview & Key Insights

The chapter's summit, and it is an ethical one. He who sees everywhere by comparison with himself — whether pleasure or pain — that yogī is held to be the highest. The standard is not a state achieved but a way of measuring others: by yourself.

✨ Devotional Takeaway:The highest yogī is defined by how he measures others' pain: by his own.