Bhagavad Gita: Remain always steady in meditation on the transcendent self (Dhyana-yoga (Text 19 Ch 6))

Sri-bhagavan uvaca

yatha dipo nivata-stho
nengate sopama smrta
yogino yata-cittasya
yunjato yogam atmanah

Meaning: As a lamp in a windless place does not waver, so the transcendentalist, whose mind is controlled, remains always steady in his meditation on the transcendent self.

Bhagavad Gita: Remain always steady in meditation on the transcendent self  (Dhyana-yoga (Text 19 Ch 6))

*** A truly Krishna (divine) conscious person, always absorbed in transcendence, in constant undisturbed mediation on his worshipable lord, is as steady as a lamp in a windless place.

Bhagavad Gita: Well established in Yoga (Dhyana-yoga (Text 18 Ch 6))

Sri-bhagavan uvaca

yada viniyatam cittam
atmany evavatisthate
nisprhah sarva-kamebhyo
yukta ity ucyate tada

Meaning: When the yogi, by practice of yoga, disciplines his mental activities and becomes situated in transcendence-devoid of all material desires-he is said to be well established in yoga.

Bhagavad Gita: Well established in Yoga  (Dhyana-yoga (Text 18 Ch 6))

Bhagavad Gita: He who is regulated in his habits mitigate all material pains (Dhyana-yoga (Text 17 Ch 6))

Sri-bhagavan uvaca

Yuktahara-viharasya
yukta-cestasya karmasu
yukta-svapnavabodhasya
yogo bhavati duhkha-ha

Meaning: He who is regulated in his habits of eating, sleeping, recreation and work can mitigate all material pains by practicing the yoga system.

Bhagavad Gita: He who is regulated in his habits mitigate all material pains  (Dhyana-yoga (Text 17 Ch 6))

Bhagavad Gita: Regulation of diet and sleep (Dhyana-yoga (Text 16 Ch 6))

Sri-bhagavan uvaca

naty-asnatas 'tu yoga 'sti
na caikantam anasnatah
na cati-svapna-silasya
jagrato naiva carjuna

Meaning: There is no possibility of one's becoming a yogi, O Arjuna, if one eats too much or eats too little, sleeps too much or does not sleep enough.

Bhagavad Gita: Regulation of diet and sleep (Dhyana-yoga (Text 16 Ch 6))

Bhagavad Gita: Attain kingdom of God (Dhyana-Yoga (Text 15 Ch 6))

Sri-bhagavan uvaca

yunjann evam sadatmanam
yogi niyata-manasah
santim nirvana-paramam
mat-samstham adhigacchati

Meaning: Thus practicing constant control of the body, mind and activities, the mystic transcendentalist, his mind regulated, attains to the kingdom of God [or the abode of Krsna] by cessation of material existence.

Bhagavad Gita: Attain kingdom of God (Dhyana-yoga (Text 15 Ch 6))

Bhagavad Gita: Mediate upon Me within the heart and make Me the ultimate goal of life. (Dhyana-yoga (Text 13,14, Ch 6))

Sri-bhagavan uvaca

Samam kaya-siro-grivam
dharayann acalam sthirah
sampreksya nasikagram svam
disas canavalokayan

prasantatma vigata-bhir
brahmacari-vrate sthitah
manah samyamya mac-citto
yukta asita mat-parah

Meaning: One should hold one's body, neck and head erect in a straight line and stare steadily at the tip of the nose. Thus, with an unagitated, subdued mind, devoid of fear, completely free from sex life, one should  mediate upon Me within the heart and make Me the ultimate goal of life.

Bhagavad Gita: Mediate upon Me within the heart and make Me the ultimate goal of life. (Dhyana-yoga (Text 13,14, Ch 6))

Bhagavad Gita: Practice yoga to purify the heart (Dhyana-yoga (Text 11,12, Ch 6))

Sri-bhagavan uvaca

sucau dese pratisthapya
sthiram asanam atmanah
naty-ucchritam nati-nicam
cailajina-kusottaram

tatraikagram manah krtva
yata-cittendriya-kriyah
upavisyasane yunjyad
yogam atma-visuddhaye

Meaning: To practice yoga, one should go to a secluded place and should lay kusa grass on the ground and then cover it with a deerskin and a soft cloth. The seat should be neither too high nor too low and should be situated in a sacred place.The yogi should then sit on it very firmly and practice yoga to purify the heart by controlling his mind, senses and activities and fixing the mind on one point.

Bhagavad Gita: Practice yoga to purify the heart (Dhyana-yoga (Text 11,12, Ch 6))

Bhagavad Gita: Engage body, mind and Self in relationship with the Supreme (Dhyana-yoga (Text 10, Ch 6))

Sri-bhagavan uvaca

yogi yunjita satatam
atmanam rahasi sthitah
ekaki yata-cittatma
nirasir aparigrahah

Meaning: A transcendentalist should always engage his body, mind and self in relationship with the Supreme; he should live alone in a secluded place and should always carefully control his mind. He should be free from desires and feelings of possessiveness.

Bhagavad Gita: Engage body, mind and Self in relationship with the Supreme (Dhyana-yoga (Text 10, Ch 6))

Bhagavad Gita: A person is considered still further advanced (Dhyana-yoga (Text 09, Ch 6))

Sri-bhagavan uvaca

suhrn-mitrary-udasina-
madhyastha-dvesya-bandhusu
sadhusv api ca papesu
sama-buddhir visisyate

Meaning: A person is considered  still further advanced when he regards honest well-wishers, affectionate benefactors, the neutral, mediators, the envious, friends and enemies, the pious and the sinners all with an equal mind.

Bhagavad Gita: A person is considered  still further advanced (Dhyana-yoga (Text 09, Ch 6))

Bhagavad Gita: Established in self realization (Dhyana-yoga (Text 08, Ch 6))

Sri-bhagavan uvaca

jnana-vijnana-trptatma
kura-stho vijitendriyah
yukta ity ucyate yogi
sama-lostrasma-kancanah

Meaning: A person is said to be established in self realization  and is called a yogi [ or mystic] when he is fully satisfied by virtue of acquired knowledge and realization. Such a person is situated in transcendence and is self-controlled. He sees everything-whether it be pebbles, stones or gold-as the same.

Bhagavad Gita: Established in self realization (Dhyana-yoga (Text 08, Ch 6))

Bhagavad Gita: Attained tranquillity (Dhyana-yoga (Text 07, Ch 6))

Sri-bhagavan uvaca

jitatmanah prasantasya
paramatma samahitah
sitosna-sukha-duhkhesu
tatha manapamanayoh

Meaning: For one who has conquered the mind , the Supersoul is already reached, for he has attained tranquillity. To such a man happiness and distress, heat and cold , honor and dishonor are all the same.

Bhagavad Gita: Attained tranquillity  (Dhyana-yoga (Text 07, Ch 6))

Bhagavad Gita: For him who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends (Dhyana-yoga (Text 06, Ch 6))

Sri-bhagavan uvaca

bandhur atmatmanas tasya
yenatmaivatmana jitah
anatmanas tu satrutve
vartetatmaiva satru-vat

Meaning: For him who has conquered the mind, the mind is the  best friends; but for one who has failed to do so, his mind will remain the greatest enemy.

***
One who cannot control his mind lives always with the greatest  enemy, and thus his life and its mission are spoiled

Bhagavad Gita: For him who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends (Dhyana-yoga (Text 06, Ch 6))

Bhagavad Gita: Mind always engaged in divine consciousness is the cause of supreme liberation. (Dhyana-yoga (Text 05, Ch 6))

Sri-bhagavan uvaca

uddhared atmanatmanam
natmanam avasadayet
atmaiva hy atmano bandhur
atmaiva ripur atmanah

Meaning: One must deliver himself with the help of his mind, and not degrade himself. The mind is the friend of the conditioned soul, and his enemy as well.

***
For man, mind is the cause of bondage and mind is the cause of liberation. Mind absorbed in sense objects is the cause of bondage, and mind detached  from the sense objects is the cause of liberation.


Bhagavad Gita: Mind always engaged in divine consciousness  is the cause of supreme liberation. (Dhyana-yoga (Text 05, Ch 6))

Bhagavad Gita: A person is said to be elevated in yoga (Dhyana-yoga (Text 04, Ch 6))

Sri-bhagavan uvaca

yada hi nendriyarthesu
na karmasv anusajjate
sarva-sankalpa-sannyasi
yogarudhas todocyate

Meaning: A person is said to be elevated in yoga when, having renounced all material  desires, he neither  acts for sense gratification nor engages in fruitive activities.

Bhagavad Gita: A person is said to be elevated in yoga (Dhyana-yoga (Text 04, Ch 6))

Bhagavad Gita: Work is said to be the means (Dhyana-yoga (Text 03, Ch 6)

Sri-bhagavan uvaca

aruruksor muner yogam
karma karanam ucyate
yogarudhasya tasyaiva
samah karanam ucyate

Meaning: For one who is  a neophyte in the eightfold yoga system, work is said to be the means; and for one who is already  elevated in yoga, cessation of all material  activities is said to be the means.

Bhagavad Gita: Work is said to be the means (Dhyana-yoga (Text 03, Ch 6)

Bhagavad Gita: Never become a yogi unless renounce the desire for sense gratification (Dhyana-yoga (Text 02, Ch 6)

Sri-bhagavan uvaca

yam sannyasam iti prahur

yogam tam viddhi pandava

na hy asannyasta-sankalpo

yogi bhavati kascana

Meaning: What is called renunciation you should know to be the same as yoga, or linking oneself with the Supreme, O son of Pandu, for one can never become a yogi unless he renounces the desire for sense gratification.

Bhagavad Gita: Never become a yogi unless renounces the desire for sense gratification (Dhyana-yoga (Text 02, Ch 6)


*** Real sannyasa-yoga or bhakti means that one should know his constitutional position as the living entity, and act accordingly. The living entity has no separate independent identity. He is the marginal energy of the Supreme. When he is entrapped by material energy, he is conditioned, and when he is Krsna(divine) conscious or aware of the spiritual energy, then he is in his real and natural  state of life.

Bhagavad Gita: True mystic (Dhyana-yoga (Text 01, Ch 6)

Sri-bhagavan uvaca

anasritah karma-phalam

karyam karma karoti yah

sa sannyasi ca yogi ca

na niragnir na cakriyah

Meaning: The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: One who is unattached to the fruits of his work and who works as he is obligated is in the renounced order of life, and he is the true mystic, not he who lights no fire and performs no duty.

Bhagavad Gita: True mystic (Dhyana-yoga (Text 01, Ch 6)

Bhagavad Gita: Attains peace from the pangs of material miseries (Karma-yoga-Action in Krsna (divine) Consciousness (Text 29, Ch 5)

bhoktaram yajna-tapasam

sarva-loka-mahesvaram

suhrdam sarva-bhutanam

jnatva mam santim rcchati

Meaning: A person in full consciousness of Me, knowing Me to be the ultimate beneficiary of all sacrifices and austerities, the Supreme Lord of all planets and demigods, and the benefactor and well-wisher of all living entities, attains peace from the pangs of material miseries.

Bhagavad Gita: Attains peace from the pangs of material miseries (Karma-yoga-Action in Krsna (divine) Consciousness (Text 29, Ch 5)

Bhagavad Gita: Free from desire, fear and anger (Karma-yoga-Action in Krsna (divine) Consciousness (Text 26, 28 Ch 5)

sparsan krtva bahir bahyams

caksus caivantare bhruvoh

pranapanau samau krtva

nasabhyantara-carinau

yatendriya-mano-buddhir

munir moksa-parayanah

vigateccha-bhaya-krodho

yah sada mukta eva sah

Meaning: Shutting out all external sense objects, keeping the eyes and vision concentrated between the two eyebrows, suspending the inward and outward breaths within the nostrils, and thus controlling the mind, senses and intelligence, the transcendentalist aiming at liberation becomes free from desire, fear and anger. one who is always in this state is certainly liberated.

Bhagavad Gita: Free from desire, fear and anger (Karma-yoga-Action in Krsna (divine) Consciousness (Text 26, 28 Ch 5)

Bhagavad Gita: Assured liberation in the Supreme (Karma-yoga-Action in Krsna (divine) Consciousness (Text 26, Ch 5)

Kama-krodha-vimuktanam

yatinam yata-cetasam

abhito brahma-nirvanam

vartate viditatmanam

Meaning: Those who are free from anger and all material desires, who are self-realized, self-disciplined and constantly endeavoring for perfection, are assured of liberation in the Supreme in the very near future.

Bhagavad Gita: Assured  liberation in the Supreme (Karma-yoga-Action in Krsna (divine) Consciousness (Text 26, Ch 5)

Bhagavad Gita: Achieve liberation in the Supreme (Karma-yoga-Action in Krsna (divine) Consciousness (Text 25, Ch 5)

labhante brahma-nirvanam

rsayah ksina-kalmasah

chinna-dvaidha yatatmanah

sarva-bhuta-hite ratah

Meaning: Those who are beyond the dualities that arise from doubts, whose minds are engaged within, who are always busy working for the welfare of all living beings, and who are free from all sins achieve liberation in the Supreme.

Bhagavad Gita: Achieve liberation in the Supreme (Karma-yoga-Action in Krsna (divine) Consciousness (Text 25, Ch 5)

*** The sufferings of humanity are due to forgetfulness of Krsna(God) as the supreme enjoyer, the supreme proprietor and the supreme friend. 

Bhagavad Gita: Ultimately attains the Supreme (Karma-yoga-Action in Krsna (divine) Consciousness (Text 24, Ch 5)

yo'ntah-sukho 'ntar-aramas

tathantar-jyotir eva yah

sa yogi brahma-nirvanam

brahma-bhuto 'dhigacchati

(Text 24, Ch 5)

Meaning: One whose happiness is within, who is active and rejoices within, and whose aim is inward is actually the perfect mystic. He is liberated in the Supreme, and ultimately he attains the Supreme.

***Unless one is able to relish happiness from within, how can one retire from the external engagements meant for deriving superficial happiness? A liberated person enjoys happiness by factual experience. He can, therefore, sit silently at any place and enjoy the activities of life from within. Such a liberated person no longer desires external material happiness.

Bhagavad Gita: Tolerate the urges of the material senses (Karma-yoga-Action in Krsna (divine) Consciousness (Text 23, Ch 5)

Saknotihaiva yah sodhum

prak sarira-vimoksanat

kama-krodhodbhavam vegam

sa yuktah sa sukhi narah

Meaning: Before giving up this present body, if one  is able to tolerate the urges of the material senses and check the force of desire and anger, he is well situated and is happy in this world.

(Text 23, Ch 5)

Bhagavad Gita: An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery (Karma-yoga-Action in Krsna (divine) Consciousness (Text 22, Ch 5)

ye hi samsparsa-ja bhoga

duhkha-yonaya eva te

ady-antavantah kaunteya

na tesu ramate budhah

(Text 22, Ch 5)

Meaning: An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with the material senses. O son of Kunti, such pleasures have a beginning and an end,  and so the wise man does not delight in them.

Bhagavad Gita: An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery (Karma-yoga-Action in Krsna (divine) Consciousness (Text 22, Ch 5)

Bhagavad Gita: Self realized person, enjoys unlimited happiness (Karma-yoga-Action in Krsna (divine) Consciousness (Text 21, Ch 5)

bahya-sparsesv asaktatma

vindaty atmani yat sukham

sa brahma-yoga-yuktatma

sukham aksayam asnute

(Text 21, Ch 5)

Meaning: Such a liberated person is not attracted to material sense pleasure but is always in trance, enjoying the pleasure within. In this way the self-realized person enjoys unlimited happiness, for he concentrates on the Supreme.

Bhagavad Gita: Situated in transcendence (Karma-yoga-Action in Krsna (divine) Consciousness (Text 20, Ch 5)

na prahrsyet priyam prapya

nodvijet prapya capriyam

sthira-buddhir asammudho

brahma-vid brahmani sthitah

Meaning: A person who neither rejoices upon achieving something pleasant nor laments upon obtaining something unpleasant, who is self-intelligent, who is unbewildered, and who knows the science of God, is already situated in transcendence.

Bhagavad Gita: Conquered the conditions of birth and death (Karma-yoga-Action in Krsna (divine) Consciousness (Text 19, Ch 5)

ihaiva tair jitah sargo
yesam samye sthitam manah
nirdosam hi samam brahma
tasmad brahmani te sthitah

(Text 19, Ch 5)

Meaning: Those whose minds are established in sameness and equanimity have already conquered the conditions of birth and death. They are flawless like Brahman, and thus they are already situated in Brahman.

Bhagavad Gita: The humble sages, by virtue of true knowledge, see with equal vision (Karma-yoga-Action in Krsna (divine) Consciousness (Text 18, Ch 5)

vidya-vinaya-sampanne

brahmane gavi hastini

suni caiva sva-pake ca

panditah sama-darsinah

(Text 18, Ch 5)

Meaning: The humble sages, by virtue of true knowledge, see with equal vision a learned and gentle brahmana, a cow, an elephant, a dog and dog-eater (outcaste).

Bhagavad Gita: One becomes fully cleansed of misgivings (Karma-yoga-Action in Krsna (divine) Consciousness (Text 17, Ch 5)

tad- buddhayas tad-atmanas

tan-nisthas tat-parayanah

gacchanty apunar-avrttim

jnana-nirdhuta-kalmasah

Bhagavad Gita: One becomes fully cleansed of misgivings (Karma-yoga-Action in Krsna (divine) Consciousness (Text 17, Ch 5)

Meaning: When one's intelligence, mind, faith and refuge are all fixed in the Supreme, then one becomes fully cleansed of misgivings through complete knowledge and thus proceeds straight on the path of liberation.