Bhagavad Gītā · Chapter 6, Verse 27
प्रशान्तमनसं ह्येनं योगिनं सुखमुत्तमम्।
उपैति शान्तरजसं ब्रह्मभूतमकल्मषम्।।
उपैति शान्तरजसं ब्रह्मभूतमकल्मषम्।।
praśānta-manasaṁ hyenaṁ yoginaṁ sukham uttamam
upaiti śānta-rajasaṁ brahma-bhūtam akalmaṣam
also searched as "prashanta manasam hyenam yoginam sukham uttamam"
Translation
For supreme happiness comes to the Yogin whose mind is at peace, who is free from evil, from whom Rajas has departed, and who has become the Brahman.
Vāṇi's rendering
To the yogi of quiet mind, passions settled, stainless, one with the eternal — the highest happiness comes.
Word by word
| Sanskrit & transliteration | Meaning |
|---|---|
| प्रशान्तमनसम्praśānta-manasam | whose mind has grown quiet, stilled through and through |
| हिhi | indeed, surely (joined to the next word as hy-) |
| एनम्enam | this one, the very man just described |
| योगिनम्yoginam | the yogi, the one holding to the practice |
| सुखम्sukham | happiness, ease |
| उत्तमम्uttamam | highest, with nothing above it |
| उपैतिupaiti | comes near, approaches of its own accord |
| शान्तरजसम्śānta-rajasam | whose restlessness has settled, whose driving passion has cooled |
| ब्रह्मभूतम्brahma-bhūtam | become the eternal, no longer standing apart from it |
| अकल्मषम्akalmaṣam | stainless, unsmudged by good or ill |
Frequently asked
What does Bhagavad Gita Chapter 6 Verse 27 mean?
It names who receives the highest happiness: the one whose mind has gone quiet, whose restlessness has settled, who carries no stain, who is no longer separate from the eternal. And it says the happiness comes to him — upaiti. He does not go out and take it. The conditions are met, and it arrives.
prashanta manasam hyenam yoginam sukham uttamam - what is this verse about?
About a happiness that cannot be pursued, only received. Krishna lists no achievement here, only quiet: rajas cooled, mind stilled, stain gone. Each is a removal. What remains is not a reward for effort but what was covered over all along. The seeking stops, and the joy is already standing there.
What does it mean to become brahma-bhuta, one with the eternal?
Not an arrival somewhere else. Brahma-bhūtam means the sense of being a separate, defended thing has thinned out. You stop experiencing yourself as an item inside the world and begin to feel like its quiet. Krishna places it beside stainlessness and stilled passion — three ways of saying the same settling.
Why does the Gita say happiness comes to the yogi rather than the yogi finding it?
Because the search is part of the disturbance. As long as you are reaching, the water is stirred. Krishna's grammar is deliberate: upaiti, it approaches. Your work is the settling. The happiness is not manufactured by that work; it becomes visible when the work has quieted everything that hid it.
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Commentary
Notice the verb. Sukham upaiti — happiness comes toward him. It approaches. Krishna does not say the yogi seizes joy or earns it or builds it; the highest happiness arrives, the way quiet arrives in a room when the noise stops. Everything asked of Arjuna in this chapter is subtraction: settle the mind, let the restlessness fall away, stop staining the day with wanting. Nothing is asked about the happiness itself. You have been chasing it, and it has been waiting for the chase to end. Stop stirring the water and see what was always at the bottom.