--- title: "Verse 06.21 | Bhagavad-Gita: 06 - The Yoga of Contemplation - v1.4" heading: "Bhagavad-Gita: Chapter 06" subheading: "= 06.21 =" updated: "2025-02-02T00:00:00+00:00" words: url: https://ananda.icu/trans/bg/06/21 description: "The sixth chapter of Bhagavad-Gita explores dhyana-yoga, the path of union through contemplative practice. It discusses the state and effects of yoga, literally union, and the practices and path of the yogi, the contemplator on a quest for that union." ... 🔎︎ sukham ātyantikaṁ yat tad buddhi-grāhyam atīndriyam | vetti yatra na caivāyaṁ sthitaś calati tattvataḥ ||21||[↪](/trans/bg/06/21) This very infinite happiness, grasped by discernment, beyond the senses; Knowing which, he will never depart from the state of truths. Notes: The term _buddhi_, commonly translated as "intellect", here refers specifically to discernment, or the process of examination where illusions are deconstructed and eliminated. These illusions, the projections of a conditioned mind as a holographic overlay of reality, are dispelled and replaced by the establishment of an unshaking perception of the _tattvas_ and the _dharmas_ — the fundamental and self-neutral elements, characteristics, and processes of existence — the categories of actuality existing and operating independent of the relative and deluded subject. Established as the witness of this underlying actuality, the yogi abides and operates on a plane of endless ease and comfort, with the matrix of the world but a liberated pastime unfolding on the clear canvas of awareness. Transcending the bondage of hallucinations, seated in unwavering truth, he is reposed in a domain of perception beyond the senses, in supreme independence. - [▲](/trans/bg/06) - [◀](/trans/bg/06/20#hu) - [▶](/trans/bg/06/22#hu) - [1](/trans/bg/06/1#hu) - [2](/trans/bg/06/2#hu) - [3](/trans/bg/06/3#hu) - [4](/trans/bg/06/4#hu) - [5](/trans/bg/06/5#hu) - [6](/trans/bg/06/6#hu) - [7](/trans/bg/06/7#hu) - [8](/trans/bg/06/8#hu) - [9](/trans/bg/06/9#hu) - [10](/trans/bg/06/10#hu) - [11](/trans/bg/06/11#hu) - [12](/trans/bg/06/12#hu) - [13](/trans/bg/06/13#hu) - [14](/trans/bg/06/14#hu) - [15](/trans/bg/06/15#hu) - [16](/trans/bg/06/16#hu) - [17](/trans/bg/06/17#hu) - [18](/trans/bg/06/18#hu) - [19](/trans/bg/06/19#hu) - [20](/trans/bg/06/20#hu) - [21](/trans/bg/06/21#hu) - [22](/trans/bg/06/22#hu) - [23](/trans/bg/06/23#hu) - [24](/trans/bg/06/24#hu) - [25](/trans/bg/06/25#hu) - [26](/trans/bg/06/26#hu) - [27](/trans/bg/06/27#hu) - [28](/trans/bg/06/28#hu) - [29](/trans/bg/06/29#hu) - [30](/trans/bg/06/30#hu) - [31](/trans/bg/06/31#hu) - [32](/trans/bg/06/32#hu) - [33](/trans/bg/06/33#hu) - [34](/trans/bg/06/34#hu) - [35](/trans/bg/06/35#hu) - [36](/trans/bg/06/36#hu) - [37](/trans/bg/06/37#hu) - [38](/trans/bg/06/38#hu) - [39](/trans/bg/06/39#hu) - [40](/trans/bg/06/40#hu) - [41](/trans/bg/06/41#hu) - [42](/trans/bg/06/42#hu) - [43](/trans/bg/06/43#hu) - [44](/trans/bg/06/44#hu) - [45](/trans/bg/06/45#hu) - [46](/trans/bg/06/46#hu) - [47](/trans/bg/06/47#hu)