Bhagavad Gita 5.27
स्पर्शान्कृत्वा बहिर्बाह्यांश्चक्षुश्चैवान्तरे भ्रुवोः। प्राणापानौ समौ कृत्वा नासाभ्यन्तरचारिणौ।।5.27।।
sparśānkṛtvā bahirbāhyāṃścakṣuścaivāntare bhruvoḥ. prāṇāpānau samau kṛtvā nāsābhyantaracāriṇau..5.27..
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- स्पर्शान्
- sense objects/contacts (external touches)
- कृत्वा
- having made/put
- बहिः
- outside
- बाह्यान्
- external (objects)
- चक्षुः
- the eye/gaze
- च
- and
- एव
- indeed
- अन्तरे
- between
- भ्रुवोः
- of the two eyebrows
- प्राण-अपानौ
- the outgoing and incoming breaths (prana and apana)
- समौ
- equal/balanced
- कृत्वा
- having made
- नास-अभ्यन्तर-चारिणौ
- moving within the nostrils
Commentary
27-28. Shutting out all external contracts and fixing the sight between the eye-brows, equalising the out-going arid the in-going breaths which pass through the nostrils, controlling the senses, mind and intellect, having moksha as his highest goal, free from desire, fear and anger, — the sage who ever (remains thus) is verily liberated.
Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain (verses 27-28 discussed as one combined teaching in the source)
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