OM
6. Dhyana Yoga
1)
SRI KRISHNA:
He who performs his bounden duty
without depending on the fruits-of-actions, he is a Sanyassin and a Yogi; not
he who is without fire and without action (who has renounced action.)
2)
O Pandava (Arjuna), please know Yoga to be that
which they call renunciation; no one verily becomes a Yogi who has not
renounced thoughts.
3)
For a Muni or a sage “who wishes to attune to
Yoga”, actions is said to be the means; for the same sage who has “attuned to
Yoga”, inaction (quiescence) is said to be the means.
4)
When a man is not attached to sense objects or
to actions, having renounced all thoughts, then he is said to have attuned to
Yoga.
5)
Let a man lift himself by his own Self alone.
And let him not lower himself; for this Self alone, is the friend of oneself,
and this Self alone is the enemy of oneself.
6)
The Self is the friend of the self for him, who
has conquered himself by the self, but to the unconquered self, the Self stands
in the position of an enemy like an (external) foe.
7)
The Supreme Self of him who is self-controlled
and peaceful, is balanced in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, as also in honor
and dishonor.
8)
The Yogi who is satisfied with knowledge and
wisdom, who remains unshaken, who has conquered the senses, to whom a lump of
earth, a stone and gold are the same, is said to be harmonized. (said to have
attained Nirvikalpa Samadhi)
9)
He who is of the same mind to the good-hearted,
friends, relatives, enemies, the indifferent, the neutral, the hateful, the
righteous and the unrighteous, excels.
10)
Let the Yogi try constantly to keep the mind
steady remaining in solitude, alone, with the mind and body controlled, free
from hope and greed.
11)
Having, in a clean spot, established a firm seat
of his own, neither too high nor too low, made of cloth, a skin and Kusha
grass, one over the other.
12)
There, having made the mind, one pointed, with
the actions of the mind and the senses controlled, let him, seated on the seat,
practice Yoga, for the purification of the self.
13)
Let him firmly hold his body, head and neck
erect and still, gazing at the tip of his nose, without looking around.
14)
Serene minded, fearless, firm in the vow of
Brahmacharya, having controlled the mind, thinking on Me and balanced, let him
sit, having Me as the supreme Goal.
15)
Thus always keeping the mind balanced, the Yogi
with his mind controlled, attains the peace abiding in Me, which culminates in
total liberation. (Nirvana or Moksha)
16)
Verily, Yoga is not possible for him who eats
too much, nor for him who does not eat at all, nor for him who sleeps too much,
nor for him who is (always) awake, O Arjuna.
17)
Yoga becomes the destroyer of pain for him who
is moderate in his eating and recreation, who is moderate in his exertion
during his actions, who is moderate in sleep and wakefulness.
18)
When the perfectly controlled mind rests in the
Self only, free from longing for all (objects of) desire, then it is said, “he
is united.” (Yuktah)
19)
“A lamp placed in a windless place does not
flicker” – is a simile to describe the Yogi of controlled mind, practicing (or
absorbed in) Yoga of the Self.
20)
When the mind, restrained by the practice of
Yoga, attains quietude and when seeing the Self by the self, he is satisfied in
his own Self
21)
When he (the Yogi) feels that Infinite bliss –
which can be grasped by the (pure) intellect and which transcends the senses –
wherein established, he never moves from the Reality.
22)
Which having obtained, he thinks there is no
other gain superior to it; wherein established, he is not moved even by heavy
sorrow.
23)
Let it be known: the severance from the “union
with pain” is Yoga; This Yoga should be practiced with determination and with a
mind steady and un-despairing.
24)
Abandoning
without reserve, all desires born of Sankalpa, and completely restraining the
whole group of senses by the mind from all the sides.
25)
Little by little, let him attain quietude by his
intellect, held firm; having made the mind established in the self, let him not
think of anything.
26)
From whatever cause the restless and unsteady
mind wanders away, from that let him restrain it, and bring it back under the
control of the self alone.
27)
Supreme Bliss verily comes to this Yogi, whose
mind is quite peaceful, whose passion is quietened, who is free from sin, and
who has become BRAHMAN.
28)
The Yogi, engaging the mind thus (in the
practice of Yoga), freed from sins, easily enjoys the Infinite bliss of
BRAHMAN-contact”
29)
With the mind harmonized by Yoga, he sees the
Self, abiding in all beings, and all beings in the Self, he sees the same
everywhere.
30)
He who sees Me everywhere, and sees everything
in Me, he never gets separated from Me, nor do I get separated from him.
31)
He who, being established in unity, worships Me,
dwelling in all beings, that Yogi abides in Me, whatever be his mode of living.
32)
He who through the likeness (sameness) of the
Self, O Arjuna, sees equality everywhere, be it pleasure or pain, he is
regarded as the highest Yogi.
33)
ARJUNA:
This Yoga of equanimity taught
by Thee, O slayer of Madhu (Sri Krishna), I see not its enduring continuity,
because of the restlessness of the mind.
34)
The mind verily is, O Krishna, restless,
turbulent, strong and unyielding; I deem it quite as difficult to control as
the wind.
35)
SRI KRISHNA:
Undoubtedly, O mighty armed one,
the mind is difficult to control and is restless; but by practice, O son of
Kunti (Arjuna), and by dispassion, it is restrained.
36)
Yoga, I think is hard to be attained by one of
uncontrolled self; But the self-controlled, striving, can obtain it by (proper)
means.
37)
ARJUNA:
When a man, though possessed of
faith, is unable to control himself, and his mind wanders away from YOGA, to
what end does he, having failed to attain perfection in Yoga go, O Krishna?
38)
Fallen from both, does he not, O Mighty-armed
(Sri Krishna), perish like a rent cloud, support-less and deluded in the Path
of BRAHMAN?
39)
This doubt of mine, O Krishna, please dispel
completely; because it is not possible for anyone but You to dispel this doubt.
40)
SRI
KRISHNA:
O Partha, (Arjuna) Neither in
this world, nor in the next world is there destruction for him; None, verily
who strives to be good, O My son (Arjuna) ever comes to grief.
41)
Having attained to the worlds of the righteous,
and having dwelt there for everlasting years, he who had fallen from Yoga, is
born again in the house of the pure and the wealthy.
42)
Or he is born in the family of the wise Yogis;
verily, a birth like this is very difficult to obtain in this world.
43)
There he comes to be united with the knowledge
acquired in his former body and strives more than before for Perfection, O son
of the Kurus (Arjuna.)
44)
By that very former practice, he is borne on in
spite of himself. Even he who merely wishes to know Yoga, goes beyond the
SHABDA BRAHMAN.
45)
But the Yogi, who strives with assiduity,
purified from sins and perfected (gradually) through many births, he then
attains the highest Goal.
46)
The Yogi is thought to be superior to the
ascetics and even superior to men-of-knowledge (mere scholars), he is also
superior to men-of-action; therefore, (strive to) be a Yogi, O Arjuna.
47)
And among all Yogis, he who full of faith, with
his inner self merged in Me, worships Me, is according to Me, the most devout.
Thus ends the 6th chapter of the Bhagavad Gita.
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