श्रीभगवानुवाच |
The Blessed Lord said He who performs his bounden duty without depending on the fruits of…
6.2यं संन्यासमिति प्राहुर्योगं तं विद्धि पाण्डव |
Do thou, O Arjuna, know Yoga to be that which they call renunciation; no one verily become…
6.3आरुरुक्षोर्मुनेर्योगं कर्म कारणमुच्यते |
For a sage who wishes to attain to Yoga, action is said to be the means; for the same sage…
6.4यदा हि नेन्द्रियार्थेषु न कर्मस्वनुषज्जते |
When a man is not attached to the sense-objects or to actions, having renounced all though…
6.5उद्धरेदात्मनात्मानं नात्मानमवसादयेत् |
One should raise oneself by one's Self alone; let not one lower oneself; for the Self alon…
6.6बन्धुरात्मात्मनस्तस्य येनात्मैवात्मना जितः |
The Self is the friend of the self of him by whom the self has been conered by the Self, b…
6.7जितात्मनः प्रशान्तस्य परमात्मा समाहितः |
The Supreme Self of him who is self-controlled and peaceful is balanced in cold and heat, …
6.8ज्ञानविज्ञानतृप्तात्मा कूटस्थो विजितेन्द्रियः |
The Yogi who is satisfied with the knowledge and the wisdom (of the Self), who has conered…
6.9सुहृन्मित्रार्युदासीनमध्यस्थद्वेष्यबन्धुषु |
He who is of the same mind to the good-hearted, friends, enemies, the indifferent, the neu…
6.10योगी युञ्जीत सततमात्मानं रहसि स्थितः |
Let the Yogi try constantly to keep the mind steady, remaining in solitude, alone, with th…
6.11शुचौ देशे प्रतिष्ठाप्य स्थिरमासनमात्मनः |
In a clean spot, having established a firm seat of his own, neither too high nor too low, …
6.12तत्रैकाग्रं मनः कृत्वा यतचित्तेन्द्रियक्रियः |
There, having made the mind one-pointed, with the actions of the mind and the senses contr…
6.13समं कायशिरोग्रीवं धारयन्नचलं स्थिरः |
Let him firmly hold his body, head and neck erect and still, gazing at the tip of his nose…
6.14प्रशान्तात्मा विगतभीर्ब्रह्मचारिव्रते स्थितः |
Serene-minded, fearless, firm in the vow of a Brahmachari, having controlled the mind, thi…
6.15युञ्जन्नेवं सदात्मानं योगी नियतमानसः |
Thus always keeping the mind balanced, the Yogi, with the mind controlled, attains to the …
6.16नात्यश्नतस्तु योगोऽस्ति न चैकान्तमनश्नतः |
Verily Yoga is not possible for him who eats too much, nor for him who does not eat at all…
6.17युक्ताहारविहारस्य युक्तचेष्टस्य कर्मसु |
Yoga becomes the destroyer of pain for him who is moderate in eating and recreation (such …
6.18यदा विनियतं चित्तमात्मन्येवावतिष्ठते |
When the perfectly controlled mind rests in the Self only, free from longing for all the o…
6.19यथा दीपो निवातस्थो नेङ्गते सोपमा स्मृता |
As a lamp placed in a windless spot does not flicker to such is compared the Yogi of cont…
6.20यत्रोपरमते चित्तं निरुद्धं योगसेवया |
When the mind, restrained by the practice of Yoga attains to quietude and when seeing the …
6.21सुखमात्यन्तिकं यत्तद् बुद्धिग्राह्यमतीन्द्रियम् |
When he (the Yogi) feels that Infinite Bliss which can be grasped by the (pure) intellect …
6.22यं लब्ध्वा चापरं लाभं मन्यते नाधिकं ततः |
Which, having obtained, he thinks there is no other gain superior to it; wherein estabishe…
6.23तं विद्याद् दुःखसंयोगवियोगं योगसंज्ञितम् |
Let that be known by the name of Yoga, the severance from union with pain. This Yoga shoul…
6.24सङ्कल्पप्रभवान्कामांस्त्यक्त्वा सर्वानशेषतः |
Abandoning without reserve all desires born of Sankalpa (thought and imagination) and comp…
6.25शनैः शनैरुपरमेद् बुद्ध्या धृतिगृहीतया |
Little by little let him attain to ietude by the intellect held firmly; having made the mi…
6.26यतो यतो निश्चरति मनश्चञ्चलमस्थिरम् |
From whatever cause the restless and unsteady mind wanders away, from that let him restrai…
6.27प्रशान्तमनसं ह्येनं योगिनं सुखमुत्तमम् |
Supreme Bliss verily comes to this Yogi whose mind is ite peaceful, whose passion is ieted…
6.28युञ्जन्नेवं सदात्मानं योगी विगतकल्मषः |
The Yogi, always engaging the mind thus (in the practice of Yoga), freed from sins, easily…
6.29सर्वभूतस्थमात्मानं सर्वभूतानि चात्मनि |
With the mind harmonised by Yoga he sees the Self abiding in all beings and all beings in …
6.30यो मां पश्यति सर्वत्र सर्वं च मयि पश्यति |
He who sees Me everywhere and sees everything in Me, he never becomes separated from Me, n…
6.31सर्वभूतस्थितं यो मां भजत्येकत्वमास्थितः |
He who, being established in unity, worships Me Who dwells in all beings, that Yogi abides…
6.32आत्मौपम्येन सर्वत्र समं पश्यति योऽर्जुन |
He who, through the likeness of the Self, O Arjuna, sees eality everywhere, be it pleasure…
6.33अर्जुन उवाच |
Arjuna said This Yoga of eanimity taught by Thee, O Krishna, I do not see its steady cont…
6.34चञ्चलं हि मनः कृष्ण प्रमाथि बलवद् दृढम् |
The mind verily is restless, turbulent, strong and unyielding, O Krishna: I deem it as dif…
6.35श्रीभगवानुवाच |
The Blessed Lord said Undoubtedly, O mighty-armed Arjuna, the mind is difficult to contro…
6.36असंयतात्मना योगो दुष्प्राप इति मे मतिः |
I think Yoga is hard to be attained by one of uncontrolled self, but the self-controlled a…
6.37अर्जुन उवाच |
Arjuna said He who is unable to control himself though he has the faith, and whose mind w…
6.38कच्चिन्नोभयविभ्रष्टश्छिन्नाभ्रमिव नश्यति |
Swami Sivananda did not comment on this sloka
6.39एतन्मे संशयं कृष्ण छेत्तुमर्हस्यशेषतः |
This doubt of mine, O Krishna, do Thou dispel completely; because it is not possible for a…
6.40श्रीभगवानुवाच |
The Blessed Lord said O Arjuna, neither in this world, nor in the next world is there des…
6.41प्राप्य पुण्यकृतां लोकानुषित्वा शाश्वतीः समाः |
Having attained to the worlds of the righteous and having dwelt there for everlasting year…
6.42अथवा योगिनामेव कुले भवति धीमताम् |
Or he is born in a family of even the wise Yogis; verily a birth like this is very difficu…
6.43तत्र तं बुद्धिसंयोगं लभते पौर्वदेहिकम् |
Thee he comes in touch with the knowledge acired in his former body and strives more than …
6.44पूर्वाभ्यासेन तेनैव ह्रियते ह्यवशोऽपि सः |
By that very former practice he is borne on in spite of himself. Even he who merely wishes…
6.45प्रयत्नाद्यतमानस्तु योगी संशुद्धकिल्बिषः |
But the Yogi who strives with assiduity, purified of sins and perfected gradually through …
6.46तपस्विभ्योऽधिको योगी ज्ञानिभ्योऽपि मतोऽधिकः |
The Yogi is thought to be superior to the ascetics and even superior to men of knowledge (…
6.47योगिनामपि सर्वेषां मद्गतेनान्तरात्मना |
And among all the Yogis he who, full of faith and with his inner self merged in Me, worshi…