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sri-bhagavan uvaca anasritah karma-phalam The Blessed Lord said: 1. He who discharges his duty without seeking its fruit, he is the Sanyasin, he is the yogi [mystic]; not he who lights no sacred fire and performs no duty. yam sannyasam iti prahur 2. Know that as yoga, O Pandava, which is called Sanyasa [renunciation]: for none becomes a yogi without renouncing Sankalpa [desire for sense gratification]. aruruksor muner yogam 3. Karma is said to be the means of the Muni who seeks to attain to yoga; serenity is said to be the means when he has attained to yoga. yada hi nendriyarthesu 4. Then alone is one said to have attained to yoga, when, having renounced all Sankalpas, one does not get attached to sense-objects and actions. uddhared atmanatmanam 5. Let a man raise himself by his own self; let him not degrade himself. For he is himself his friend, himself his foe. bandhur atmatmanas tasya 6. To him who has conquered his (base) self by the (divine) self, his own self is the friend; but to him who has not subdued the self, his own self acts as the foe. jitatmanah prasantasya 7. The self-disciplined and serene man's Supreme Self is constant in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, as also in honor and dishonor. jnana-vijnana-trptatma 8. That yogi is steadfast who is satisfied with knowledge and wisdom, who remains unshaken, who has conquered the senses, to whom a clod [peebles], a stone and a piece of gold are the same. suhrn-mitrary-udasina- 9. He stands supreme who has equal regard for friends, companions, enemies, neutrals, mediators, the envious, the relatives, saints and sinners. yogi yunjita satatam 10. A yogi should always try to concentrate his mind living alone in solitude, having subdued his mind and body and got rid of desires and possessions. sucau dese pratisthapya 11. Having firmly fixed in a clean place, his seat, neither too high nor too low, and having spread over it the kusa-grass, a deer skin and a cloth, one over the other; tatraikagram manah krtva 12. Sitting there on his seat, making the mind one-pointed and restraining the thinking faculty and the senses, he should practice yoga for self-purification. samam kaya-siro-grivam 13. Let him hold the body, head and neck erect and still, gazing at the tip of his nose, without looking around. prasantatma vigata-bhir 14. Serene and fearless, firm in the vow of a Brahmachari [celibacy], subdued in mind, he should sit in yoga thinking on Me and intent on Me alone. yunjann evam sadatmanam 15. Keeping himself ever steadfast in this manner, the yogi of subdued mind attains the Peace abiding in Me and culminating in Nirvana. naty-asnatas tu yogo 'sti 16. Yoga is not possible for him who eats too much or for him who abstains too much from eating: It is not for him, O Arjuna, who sleeps too much or too little. yuktahara-viharasya 17. For him who is moderate in eating and recreation, temperate in his actions, who is regulated in sleep and wakefulness, yoga becomes the destroyer of pain. yada viniyatam cittam 18. When the disciplined mind rests in the Self-alone, free from desire for objects, then is one said to be established in yoga. yatha dipo nivata-stho 19. 'As a lamp in a windless place does not flicker' - this is the simile used for the disciplined mind of a yogi practicing concentration on the Self. yatroparamate cittam 20. When the mind, disciplined by the practice of yoga, attains quietude, and when beholding the Self by the self, he is satisfied in the Self; sukham atyantikam yat tad 21. When he feels that supreme bliss which is perceived by the intelligence and which transcends the senses, and wherein established he never moves from the Reality; yam labdhva caparam labham 22. And having gained which, he thinks that there is no greater gain than that, wherein established he is not shaken even by the heaviest affliction; tam vidyad duhkha-samyoga- 23. Let this disconnection from union with pain be known by the name of yoga. This yoga should be practiced with determination and with an undistracted mind. sankalpa-prabhavan kamams 24. Abandoning without reserve all desires born of sankalpa, and curbing in, by the mind, all the senses from all sides; sanaih sanair uparamed 25. With his intellect set in firmness let him attain quietude little by little; with the mind fixed on the Self let him not think of anything else. yato yato niscalati 26. By whatever cause the wavering and unsteady mind wanders away, let him curb it from that and subjugate it solely to the Self. prasanta-manasam hy enam 27. Supreme Bliss verily comes to that yogi whose mind is calm: whose passions are pacified, who has become one with Brahman and who is sinless. yunjann evam sadatmanam 28. Constantly engaging the mind this way, the yogi who has put away sin, attains with ease the infinite bliss of contact with Brahman. sarva-bhuta-stham atmanam 29. His mind being harmonized by yoga, he sees himself in all beings and all beings in himself; he sees the same in all. yo mam pasyati sarvatra 30. He who sees Me everywhere and sees all in Me, he never becomes lost to Me, nor do I become lost to him. sarva-bhuta-sthitam yo mam 31. He who, established in oneness, worships Me abiding in all beings, that yogi lives in Me, whatever may be his mode of living [circumstances]. atmaupamyena sarvatra 32. That yogi, O Arjuna, is regarded as the supreme, who judges pleasure or pain everywhere, by the same standard as he applies to himself. arjuna uvaca yo 'yam yogas tvaya proktah Arjuna said: 33. This yoga of equanimity, taught by you, O Madhusudana - I do not see any stability for it, because the mind is restless and unsteady. cancalam hi manah krsna 34. The mind verily is, O Krishna, restless, turbulent, strong and obstinate. I deem it as hard to control as the wind. sri-bhagavan uvaca asamsayam maha-baho The Blessed Lord Said: 35. Doubtless, O mighty-armed, the mind is restless and hard to control; but by practice and non-attachment, O son of Kunti, it can be controlled. asamyatatmana yogo 36. Yoga is hard to attain, I concede, by a man who cannot control himself; but he who has controlled himself and who strives by right means can attain it. arjuna uvaca ayatih sraddhayopeto Arjuna said: 37. He who is unable to control himself, though possessed of faith, whose mind deviates from yoga, what end does he meet with, O Krishna, having failed to attain perfection in yoga? kaccin nobhaya-vibhrastas 38. Fallen from both, does he not perish like a rent cloud, without any hold, O mighty armed, deluded in the path of Brahma? etan me samsayam krsna 39. Deign to dispel completely this doubt of mine, O Krishna, for there is none but Yourself who can destroy this doubt. sri-bhagavan uvaca partha naiveha namutra The Blessed Lord said: 40. O Partha, neither in this world nor in the next is there destruction for him; for, the doer of good, O my son, never overcome to grief. prapya punya-krtam lokan 41. Having attained to the worlds of the righteous and having lived there for countless years, he who falls from yoga is reborn in the house of the pure and prosperous [family of rich aristocracy]. atha va yoginam eva 42. Or he is born in a family of wise yogis only: a birth like this is verily very difficult to obtain in this world. tatra tam buddhi-samyogam 43. There he regains the knowledge acquired in his former birth, and he strives more than before for perfection, O son of the Kurus. purvabhyasena tenaiva 44. By that very former practice he is led on even without seeking them. Even he who merely wishes to know of yoga rises superior to the performer of Vedic rites. prayatnad yatamanas tu 45. The yogi, who strives with assiduity [sincere endeavor], purified from sins and perfected through many births reaches then the Supreme Goal. tapasvibhyo 'dhiko yogi 46. The yogi is deemed superior to ascetics, superior to men of knowledge even; he is also superior to ritualists. Therefore be a yogi, O Arjuna. yoginam api sarvesam 47. And of all yogis, he who worships Me with faith, his inmost self merged in Me, - him I hold to be the most devout. In the Upanishad of the Bhagavad Gita, the knowledge of Brahman, the Supreme, the science of Yoga and the dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjuna, this is the sixth discourse designated: THE YOGA OF MEDITATION |
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