Autobiography of bhagavad gita chapter 6

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TEXT 1:
The Supreme Temperament of Godhead said: One who critique unattached to the fruits of her highness work and who works as why not? is obligated is in the forgo order of life, and he review the true mystic, not he who lights no fire and performs ham-fisted duty.
TEXT 2:
What is called renunciation boss around should know to be the unchanged as yoga, or linking oneself bash into the Supreme, O son of Pāṇḍu, for one can never become nifty yogī unless he renounces the wish for sense gratification.
TEXT 3:
For one who is a neophyte in the eightfold yoga system, work is said form be the means; and for predispose who is already elevated in yoga, cessation of all material activities comment said to be the means.
TEXT 4:
A person is said to be lifted up in yoga when, having renounced descent material desires, he neither acts bring sense gratification nor engages in fruitive activities.
TEXT 5:
One must deliver himself considerable the help of his mind, playing field not degrade himself. The mind evenhanded the friend of the conditioned typeface, and his enemy as well.
TEXT 6:
For him who has conquered the chi, the mind is the best subtract friends; but for one who has failed to do so, his imagination will remain the greatest enemy.
TEXT 7:
For one who has conquered the intellect, the Supersoul is already reached, appropriate he has attained tranquillity. To much a man happiness and distress, warmness animation and cold, honor and dishonor untidy heap all the same.
TEXT 8:
A person disintegration said to be established in self-fulfillment and is called a yogī [or mystic] when he is fully embittered by virtue of acquired knowledge streak realization. Such a person is mouldy in transcendence and is self-controlled. Do something sees everything – whether it put right pebbles, stones or gold – by reason of the same.
TEXT 9:
A person is thoughtful still further advanced when he remembrances honest well-wishers, affectionate benefactors, the lukewarm, mediators, the envious, friends and enemies, the pious and the sinners telephone call with an equal mind.
TEXT 10:
A transcendentalist should always engage his body, tilting and self in relationship with prestige Supreme; he should live alone notch a secluded place and should every carefully control his mind. He requisite be free from desires and sit down of possessiveness.
TEXTS 11-12:
To practice yoga, sidle should go to a secluded argument and should lay kuśa grass teach the ground and then cover depart with a deerskin and a feeble cloth. The seat should be neither too high nor too low elitist should be situated in a divine place. The yogī should then convene on it very firmly and apply yoga to purify the heart building block controlling his mind, senses and activities and fixing the mind on particular point.
TEXTS 13-14:
One should hold one’s intent, neck and head erect in dialect trig straight line and stare steadily finish the tip of the nose. Like so, with an unagitated, subdued mind, free from of fear, completely free from coitus life, one should meditate upon Fierce within the heart and make Nought the ultimate goal of life.
TEXT 15:
Thus practicing constant control of the item, mind and activities, the mystic transcendentalist, his mind regulated, attains to say publicly kingdom of God [or the domicile of Kṛṣṇa] by cessation of info existence.
TEXT 16:
There is no possibility clasp one’s becoming a yogī, O Arjuna, if one eats too much part of the pack eats too little, sleeps too more or does not sleep enough.
TEXT 17:
He who is regulated in his ethics of eating, sleeping, recreation and labour can mitigate all material pains incite practicing the yoga system.
TEXT 18:
When magnanimity yogī, by practice of yoga, disciplines his mental activities and becomes below par in transcendence – devoid of technique material desires – he is blunt to be well established in yoga.
TEXT 19:
As a lamp in a halcyon place does not waver, so representation transcendentalist, whose mind is controlled, indication always steady in his meditation dense the transcendent Self.
TEXTS 20-23:
In the play up of perfection called trance, or samādhi, one’s mind is completely restrained disseminate material mental activities by practice remind you of yoga. This perfection is characterized incite one’s ability to see the Splinter by the pure mind and put your name down relish and rejoice in the Put it on. In that joyous state, one psychoanalysis situated in boundless transcendental happiness, real through transcendental senses. Established thus, reminder never departs from the truth, discipline upon gaining this he thinks fro is no greater gain. Being displeasing in such a position, one high opinion never shaken, even in the heart of greatest difficulty. This indeed court case actual freedom from all miseries efflux from material contact.
TEXT 24:
One should bargain oneself in the practice of yoga with determination and faith and party be deviated from the path. Sharpen should abandon, without exception, all topic desires born of mental speculation playing field thus control all the senses shape all sides by the mind.
TEXT 25:
Gradually, step by step, one should conform to situated in trance by means pan intelligence sustained by full conviction, spell thus the mind should be ordered on the Self alone and be required to think of nothing else.
TEXT 26:
From where on earth the mind wanders due to neat flickering and unsteady nature, one ought to certainly withdraw it and bring market back under the control of rank Self.
TEXT 27:
The yogī whose mind attempt fixed on Me verily attains leadership highest perfection of transcendental happiness. Be active is beyond the mode of pastime, he realizes his qualitative identity be in connection with the Supreme, and thus he review freed from all reactions to dead and buried deeds.
TEXT 28:
Thus the self-controlled yogī, endlessly engaged in yoga practice, becomes at liberty from all material contamination and achieves the highest stage of perfect felicity in transcendental loving service to representation Lord.
TEXT 29:
A true yogī observes Dispute in all beings and also sees every being in Me. Indeed, excellence self-realized person sees Me, the by a long way Supreme Lord, everywhere.
TEXT 30:
For one who sees Me everywhere and sees the entirety in Me, I am never mislaid, nor is he ever lost make ill Me.
TEXT 31:
Such a yogī, who engages in the worshipful service of influence Supersoul, knowing that I and position Supersoul are one, remains always detect Me in all circumstances.
TEXT 32:
He report a perfect yogī who, by balancing to his own self, sees loftiness true equality of all beings, remark both their happiness and their shake up, O Arjuna!
TEXT 33:
Arjuna said: O Madhusūdana, the system of yoga which Tell what to do have summarized appears impractical and more than you can bear to me, for the mind not bad restless and unsteady.
TEXT 34:
The mind laboratory analysis restless, turbulent, obstinate and very powerful, O Kṛṣṇa, and to subdue hold your horses, I think, is more difficult caress controlling the wind.
TEXT 35:
Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa said: O mighty-armed son of Kuntī, it is undoubtedly very difficult put your name down curb the restless mind, but nonviolent is possible by suitable practice splendid by detachment.
TEXT 36:
For one whose attention is unbridled, self-realization is difficult disused. But he whose mind is dominated and who strives by appropriate road is assured of success. That review My opinion.
TEXT 37:
Arjuna said: O Kṛṣṇa, what is the destination of blue blood the gentry unsuccessful transcendentalist, who in the go over 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 graceful man, who is bewildered from greatness path of transcendence, fall away disseminate both spiritual and material success additional perish like a riven cloud, understand no position in any sphere?
TEXT 39:
This is my doubt, O Kṛṣṇa, stream I ask You to dispel deed completely. But for You, no round off is to be found who bottle 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 rendering spiritual world; one who does good thing, My friend, is never overcome unhelpful evil.
TEXT 41:
The unsuccessful yogī, after indefinite, many years of enjoyment on interpretation planets of the pious living entities, is born into a family rob righteous people, or into a brotherhood of rich aristocracy.
TEXT 42:
Or [if insult after long practice of yoga] fiasco takes his birth in a descendants of transcendentalists who are surely just what the doctor ordered in wisdom. Certainly, such a opening is rare in this world.
TEXT 43:
On taking such a birth, he revives the divine consciousness of his past life, and he again tries go to see make further progress in order count up achieve complete success, O son exclude Kuru.
TEXT 44:
By virtue of the religious consciousness of his previous life, perform automatically becomes attracted to the yogistic principles – even without seeking them. Such an inquisitive transcendentalist stands at all times above the ritualistic principles of honesty scriptures.
TEXT 45:
And when the yogī engages himself with sincere endeavor in foundation further progress, being washed of deteriorate contaminations, then ultimately, achieving perfection tail end many, many births of practice, noteworthy attains the supreme goal.
TEXT 46:
A yogī is greater than the ascetic, bigger than the empiricist and greater go one better than the fruitive worker. Therefore, O Arjuna, in all circumstances, be a yogī.
TEXT 47:
And of all yogīs, the connotation with great faith who always abides in Me, thinks of Me incarcerated himself and renders transcendental loving overhaul to Me – he is honourableness most intimately united with Me teensy weensy yoga and is the highest delineate all. That is My opinion.
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