Means perfected or accomplished by from many births.
Learning and wealth is not acquired by any short span.
Indeed learning is a life-long process. But one may be taken to be learned during the knowledge gathering process as one may be a man of means while earning wealth. Likewise, a man is beheld a yogi while he is assiduously practicing yoga. His or her spiritual practices to not go to waste as spirituality persists and progresses in the yogi or yogini through successive births. And as he or she gets purified from papa, they cease to be affected by the inevitable fluctuations of the cycles of samsara. He walks the path that leads to the Supreme Goal.
‘Prayatnat yatamanah’ means purified from sins; one who is cleaned of all impurities. Sri Krishna defines a yogi at various instances. As ‘prayatnat yatamanah’ he goes on to describe ‘samsuddha kilbisah’ to be one for whom all the impurities have been removed or cleansed. The impurities besetting an aspirant are the raga dvesas, papas which is cleansed by living a life of karma yoga. Sri Krishna explains that this is a matter for many births – aneka janma samsiddhah to remove the impurities. So the person referred to here is one who has taken many births to come to the point of wanting to inquire.
‘Samsuddha kilbisah’ means purified from sins. It refers to one who is cleaned of all impurities. Further to Sri Krishna’s defining a yogi as ‘prayatnat yatamanah’ he goes on to describe ‘samsuddha kilbisah’ to be one for whom all the impurities have been removed or cleansed. The impurities besetting an aspirant are the raga dvesas, papas which is cleansed by living a life of karma yoga. Sri Krishna explains that this is a matter for many births – aneka janma samsiddhah to remove the impurities. So the person refered to here is one who has taken many births to come to the point of wanting to inquire.
Aneka janma - many births. The desire for liberation is something born out of aneka janma. One seeking knowledge needs the proper mind, the antahkarana and proper upadhi – body. In each janma, the person gathers yoga-samskara which is the samskara that is conducive to the pursuit of knowledge. The yogi in question here has amassed yoga-samskara and accumulates punya which makes him an aneka-janma-samsiddhah. Tatah-therefore, having prepared himself this way, he or she is qualified for knowledge. In this sense, samsuddha-kilbisah also means one who has clear knowledge and one who has gained samsiddhih, the vision of sameness.
Param gatim mean the highest paths. Knowledge being moksha, the yogi is also said to have gained the most exalted end –param gatim. Moksa is not a path that ends – gati. This is different from the cycles of samsara which comes back to the same point. The end referred here is param- the most exalted end which is moksa which is gained by one who pursues knowledge. In Gita 6.45, Sri Krishna states: The yogi who strives with assiduity, purified from sins and perfected through many births reaches then the Supreme Goal.
by Yogi Ananda Saraswathi