Verse 6.23

तं विद्याद् दुःखसंयोगवियोगं योगसंज्ञितम् ।

स निश्चयेन योक्तव्यो योगोऽनिर्विण्णचेतसा ॥

6.23

Transliteration

taṃ vidyād duḥkhasaṃyogaviyogaṃ yogasaṃjñitam |

sa niścayena yoktavyo yogo'nirviṇṇacetasā ||

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Translation

Let that be known by the name of Yoga, the severance from union with pain. This Yoga should be practised with determination and with an undesponding mind.

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Word by word

that
one should know
severance from union with sorrow
called yoga

that
with determination
should be practised
yoga
with an undespairing mind

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Explanation

The long sentence reaches its conclusion. This state is to be known as yoga, defined in a striking phrase as duḥkha-saṃyoga-viyoga, the unyoking from union with sorrow. The play on words reverses the usual sense of yoga as joining: true yoga is a disjoining from suffering. Krishna adds that it must be practised with firm resolve and a mind that does not grow weary or discouraged. The verse gives both a definition and a warning: the path is real but asks for patient, steady effort.