Chapter 6

Path of Meditation

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Gita 6.1
श्रीभगवानुवाच। अनाश्रितः कर्मफलं कार्यं कर्म करोति यः। स संन्यासी च योगी च न निरग्निर्न चाक्रियः।।

śrī bhagavān uvāca anāśritaḥ karma-phalaṁ kāryaṁ karma karoti yaḥ sa sannyāsī ca yogī ca na niragnir na cākriyaḥ

"The Blessed Lord said: One who performs their duty without depending on the fruits of action is a true renunciate and yogi, not one who merely gives up fire rituals or action."

All 47 verses of Chapter 6

  1. 6.1The Blessed Lord said: One who performs their duty without depending on the fruits of action is a true...
  2. 6.2Know that what they call renunciation is the same as yoga, O Pandava. No one becomes a yogi without giving...
  3. 6.3For a sage aspiring to yoga, action is said to be the means. For one who has attained yoga, tranquility is...
  4. 6.4When one is attached neither to sense objects nor to actions, having renounced all selfish intentions...
  5. 6.5Let a person lift themselves by their own self; let them not degrade themselves. For the self alone is the...
  6. 6.6For one who has conquered the self by the self, the self is a friend. But for one who has not conquered...
  7. 6.7For one who has conquered the self and is peaceful, the Supreme Self is steadily present, in cold and...
  8. 6.8The yogi who is satisfied with knowledge and wisdom, who is unchanging, who has conquered the senses, and...
  9. 6.9One who has equal regard for well-wishers, friends, enemies, neutrals, mediators, the hateful, relatives...
  10. 6.10The yogi should constantly practice meditation, dwelling in solitude, alone, with mind and body...
  11. 6.11In a clean place, having established a firm seat for oneself, neither too high nor too low, covered with...
  12. 6.12...there, making the mind one-pointed, with thought and senses controlled, seated on that seat, one should...
  13. 6.13Holding the body, head, and neck erect, motionless and steady, gazing at the tip of one's nose, not...
  14. 6.14...with a peaceful self, fearless, established in the vow of brahmacharya, controlling the mind, thinking...
  15. 6.15Thus constantly practicing, the yogi of controlled mind attains the peace of nirvana, the supreme state...
  16. 6.16Yoga is not for one who eats too much or too little, nor for one who sleeps too much or stays awake too...
  17. 6.17For one who is moderate in eating and recreation, moderate in effort in activities, moderate in sleep and...
  18. 6.18When the perfectly controlled mind rests in the Self alone, free from longing for all desires, then one is...
  19. 6.19As a lamp in a windless place does not flicker, this is the simile used for a yogi of controlled mind...
  20. 6.20Where the mind, restrained by the practice of yoga, becomes still; where seeing the Self by the Self, one...
  21. 6.21...where one experiences the infinite bliss that is grasped by the purified intellect, beyond the senses...
  22. 6.22...having obtained which, one thinks there is no greater gain; established in which, one is not shaken...
  23. 6.23Let this disconnection from union with sorrow be known as yoga. This yoga should be practiced with...
  24. 6.24Abandoning completely all desires born of intention, restraining the entire group of senses by the mind...
  25. 6.25...gradually, step by step, let one attain stillness through the intellect held firm in patience. Having...
  26. 6.26Wherever the restless, unsteady mind wanders, from there let one restrain it and bring it back under the...
  27. 6.27Supreme happiness comes to the yogi whose mind is peaceful, whose passion is calmed, who has become...
  28. 6.28Thus constantly engaging the self, the yogi who is free from impurity easily attains the infinite bliss of...
  29. 6.29One whose self is established in yoga sees the Self existing in all beings and all beings in the Self...
  30. 6.30One who sees Me everywhere and sees everything in Me, I am never lost to them, nor are they ever lost to Me.
  31. 6.31The yogi who, established in oneness, worships Me dwelling in all beings, lives in Me, however they may...
  32. 6.32One who sees everywhere the same, through comparison with the self, whether in pleasure or pain, O Arjuna...
  33. 6.33Arjuna said: This yoga of equanimity that you have described, O Madhusudana, I do not see how it can be...
  34. 6.34For the mind is restless, O Krishna, turbulent, powerful, and obstinate. I think controlling it is as...
  35. 6.35The Blessed Lord said: Undoubtedly, O mighty-armed one, the mind is restless and hard to control. But, O...
  36. 6.36In My view, yoga is hard to attain for one of uncontrolled self. But for one who strives with a controlled...
  37. 6.37Arjuna said: What happens to one who has faith but lacks effort, whose mind wanders from yoga, failing to...
  38. 6.38Having fallen from both, does one not perish like a scattered cloud, without foundation, O mighty-armed...
  39. 6.39You should completely dispel this doubt of mine, O Krishna. For no one but You can remove this doubt.
  40. 6.40The Blessed Lord said: O Partha, neither here nor hereafter is there destruction for that one. No one who...
  41. 6.41Having attained the worlds of the righteous and dwelt there for countless years, the fallen yogi is reborn...
  42. 6.42Or one is born into a family of wise yogis. Such a birth is very rare in this world.
  43. 6.43There one regains the mental development of the previous body, and strives even more for perfection, O joy...
  44. 6.44By that previous practice, one is carried forward even helplessly. Even one who merely inquires about yoga...
  45. 6.45But the yogi who strives with effort, purified of all impurities, perfected through many births, then...
  46. 6.46The yogi is greater than ascetics, greater even than the learned, greater than those who perform rituals...
  47. 6.47And of all yogis, the one who worships Me with faith, with inner self absorbed in Me, that one is the most...