Mūla — the verse
Gita Press numberingTranslation
Swami Gambhīrānanda · follows Śaṅkara-bhāṣyaFor, by that very past practice, he is carried forward even in spite of himself! Even a seeker of Yoga transcends the results of the performance of Vedic rituals!
हिन्दी अनुवाद — Swami Tejomayānanda
उसी पूर्वाभ्यास के कारण वह अवश हुआ योग की ओर आकर्षित होता है। योग का जो केवल जिज्ञासु है वह शब्दब्रह्म का अतिक्रमण करता है।।
Pronunciation — Vaamshii
from VaamshiiWord by word
padārthaThemes
from The Thematic Companion to the Bhagavad GītāMeaning — Questions & Solutions
from Q&A with KnA“Even the mere inquirer into yoga passes beyond the śabda-brahman.” Śabda-brahman is the “Brahman-as-word” — the whole body of Vedic sound, ritual and injunction; the audible, prescriptive scripture. Kṛṣṇa's striking claim is that even one who has only begun to inquire into yoga, drawn on by the momentum of past practice, is already carried past the level of mere ritual observance towards the wordless Reality the words were pointing at. It echoes 2.46: to one who has reached the reservoir, the vessel of prescriptions is surpassed — not despised, but outgrown.