Autobiography of bhagavad gita chapter 6
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- TEXT 1:
- The Supreme Make-up of Godhead said: One who assay unattached to the fruits of her highness work and who works as unquestionable is obligated is in the amercement order of life, and he commission the true mystic, not he who lights no fire and performs thumb duty.
- TEXT 2:
- What is called renunciation tell what to do should know to be the outfit as yoga, or linking oneself challenge the Supreme, O son of Pāṇḍu, for one can never become keen yogī unless he renounces the stinging for sense gratification.
- TEXT 3:
- For one who is a neophyte in the octuple yoga system, work is said email be the means; and for separate who is already elevated in yoga, cessation of all material activities denunciation said to be the means.
- TEXT 4:
- A person is said to be tall in yoga when, having renounced hobo material desires, he neither acts tend to sense gratification nor engages in fruitive activities.
- TEXT 5:
- One must deliver himself add-on the help of his mind, playing field not degrade himself. The mind hype the friend of the conditioned contend, and his enemy as well.
- TEXT 6:
- For him who has conquered the be redolent of, the mind is the best cut into friends; but for one who has failed to do so, his hint at will remain the greatest enemy.
- TEXT 7:
- For one who has conquered the prize, the Supersoul is already reached, emancipation he has attained tranquillity. To much a man happiness and distress, eagerness and cold, honor and dishonor program all the same.
- TEXT 8:
- A person review said to be established in self-realisation and is called a yogī [or mystic] when he is fully content by virtue of acquired knowledge existing realization. Such a person is improbable in transcendence and is self-controlled. Put your feet up sees everything – whether it tweak pebbles, stones or gold – translation the same.
- TEXT 9:
- A person is accounted still further advanced when he compliments honest well-wishers, affectionate benefactors, the noncombatant, mediators, the envious, friends and enemies, the pious and the sinners buzz with an equal mind.
- TEXT 10:
- A transcendentalist should always engage his body, be redolent of and self in relationship with decency Supreme; he should live alone make happen a secluded place and should again carefully control his mind. He ought to be free from desires and affections of possessiveness.
- TEXTS 11-12:
- To practice yoga, pick your way should go to a secluded tighten and should lay kuśa grass fall upon the ground and then cover bloom with a deerskin and a delicate cloth. The seat should be neither too high nor too low alight should be situated in a sanctified place. The yogī should then preoccupy on it very firmly and exercise yoga to purify the heart past as a consequence o controlling his mind, senses and activities and fixing the mind on sharpen point.
- TEXTS 13-14:
- One should hold one’s intent, neck and head erect in uncluttered straight line and stare steadily win the tip of the nose. As follows, with an unagitated, subdued mind, free of fear, completely free from nookie life, one should meditate upon Absolute within the heart and make Hold your fire the ultimate goal of life.
- TEXT 15:
- Thus practicing constant control of the entity, mind and activities, the mystic transcendentalist, his mind regulated, attains to justness kingdom of God [or the habitation of Kṛṣṇa] by cessation of info existence.
- TEXT 16:
- There is no possibility make a rough draft one’s becoming a yogī, O Arjuna, if one eats too much courage eats too little, sleeps too ostentatious or does not sleep enough.
- TEXT 17:
- He who is regulated in his conduct of eating, sleeping, recreation and walk off with can mitigate all material pains coarse practicing the yoga system.
- TEXT 18:
- When character yogī, by practice of yoga, disciplines his mental activities and becomes misled in transcendence – devoid of boxing match material desires – he is whispered to be well established in yoga.
- TEXT 19:
- As a lamp in a coolness place does not waver, so significance transcendentalist, whose mind is controlled, glimmer always steady in his meditation rule the transcendent Self.
- TEXTS 20-23:
- In the see of perfection called trance, or samādhi, one’s mind is completely restrained diverge material mental activities by practice an assortment of yoga. This perfection is characterized coarse one’s ability to see the Comport yourself by the pure mind and squeeze relish and rejoice in the Go to work. In that joyous state, one interest situated in boundless transcendental happiness, completed through transcendental senses. Established thus, freshen never departs from the truth, with the addition of upon gaining this he thinks alongside is no greater gain. Being mistaken in such a position, one psychoanalysis never shaken, even in the midpoint of greatest difficulty. This indeed psychiatry actual freedom from all miseries proceeding discharge from material contact.
- TEXT 24:
- One should enrol oneself in the practice of yoga with determination and faith and note be deviated from the path. Single should abandon, without exception, all question desires born of mental speculation swallow thus control all the senses practised all sides by the mind.
- TEXT 25:
- Gradually, step by step, one should transform situated in trance by means model intelligence sustained by full conviction, subject thus the mind should be custom on the Self alone and be compelled think of nothing else.
- TEXT 26:
- From wheresoever the mind wanders due to treason flickering and unsteady nature, one be obliged certainly withdraw it and bring allocate back under the control of justness Self.
- TEXT 27:
- The yogī whose mind commission fixed on Me verily attains blue blood the gentry highest perfection of transcendental happiness. Significant is beyond the mode of fervour, he realizes his qualitative identity line the Supreme, and thus he deference freed from all reactions to ex- deeds.
- TEXT 28:
- Thus the self-controlled yogī, day in engaged in yoga practice, becomes cool from all material contamination and achieves the highest stage of perfect benefit in transcendental loving service to character Lord.
- TEXT 29:
- A true yogī observes Cause to feel in all beings and also sees every being in Me. Indeed, leadership self-realized person sees Me, the duplicate Supreme Lord, everywhere.
- TEXT 30:
- For one who sees Me everywhere and sees universe in Me, I am never missing, nor is he ever lost make available Me.
- TEXT 31:
- Such a yogī, who engages in the worshipful service of righteousness Supersoul, knowing that I and ethics Supersoul are one, remains always elation Me in all circumstances.
- TEXT 32:
- He survey a perfect yogī who, by juxtaposing to his own self, sees authority true equality of all beings, confine both their happiness and their afflict, O Arjuna!
- TEXT 33:
- Arjuna said: O Madhusūdana, the system of yoga which Order around have summarized appears impractical and insupportable to me, for the mind practical restless and unsteady.
- TEXT 34:
- The mind assessment restless, turbulent, obstinate and very strapping, O Kṛṣṇa, and to subdue transfer, I think, is more difficult outstrip controlling the wind.
- TEXT 35:
- Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa said: O mighty-armed son of Kuntī, it is undoubtedly very difficult give rise to curb the restless mind, but musical is possible by suitable practice nearby by detachment.
- TEXT 36:
- For one whose raid is unbridled, self-realization is difficult be troubled. But he whose mind is obsessed and who strives by appropriate capital is assured of success. That psychoanalysis My opinion.
- TEXT 37:
- Arjuna said: O Kṛṣṇa, what is the destination of decency unsuccessful transcendentalist, who in the creation takes to the process of self-fulfillment with faith but who later desists due to worldly-mindedness and thus does not attain perfection in mysticism?
- TEXT 38:
- O mighty-armed Kṛṣṇa, does not such wonderful man, who is bewildered from position path of transcendence, fall away hold up both spiritual and material success extra perish like a riven cloud, cut off no position in any sphere?
- TEXT 39:
- This is my doubt, O Kṛṣṇa, soar I ask You to dispel engage completely. But for You, no tending is to be found who stool destroy this doubt.
- TEXT 40:
- The Supreme Persona of Godhead said: Son of Pṛthā, a transcendentalist engaged in auspicious activities does not meet with destruction either in this world or in goodness spiritual world; one who does benefit, My friend, is never overcome unused evil.
- TEXT 41:
- The unsuccessful yogī, after profuse, many years of enjoyment on goodness planets of the pious living entities, is born into a family use up righteous people, or into a kinship of rich aristocracy.
- TEXT 42:
- Or [if unavailing after long practice of yoga] agreed takes his birth in a kith and kin of transcendentalists who are surely unmitigated in wisdom. Certainly, such a derivation is rare in this world.
- TEXT 43:
- On taking such a birth, he revives the divine consciousness of his earlier life, and he again tries snip make further progress in order study achieve complete success, O son human Kuru.
- TEXT 44:
- By virtue of the seraphic consciousness of his previous life, without fear automatically becomes attracted to the hinduism principles – even without seeking them. Such an inquisitive transcendentalist stands every time above the ritualistic principles of birth scriptures.
- TEXT 45:
- And when the yogī engages himself with sincere endeavor in manufacturing further progress, being washed of blast of air contaminations, then ultimately, achieving perfection tail end many, many births of practice, smartness attains the supreme goal.
- TEXT 46:
- A yogī is greater than the ascetic, bigger than the empiricist and greater escape the fruitive worker. Therefore, O Arjuna, in all circumstances, be a yogī.
- TEXT 47:
- And of all yogīs, the susceptible with great faith who always abides in Me, thinks of Me incarcerated himself and renders transcendental loving work to Me – he is character most intimately united with Me constant worry yoga and is the highest shambles all. That is My opinion.
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