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Chapter 6<\/a><\/p>\n << Chapter 6 verse 35<\/a><\/p>\n asamyathAthmanA yOgO dushprApa ithi mE mathi: |<\/em> asamyathAthmanA – one who cannot control his mind My conclusion is “This yOga (of having equal vision) is difficult to attain for the one who cannot control his mind”. But, for the one who performs yOga practice (of SamadharSana\u00a0 (equal vision)), after having controlled his mind by the means of karma yOga (which was explained previously), it (equal vision) becomes easy to attain.<\/p>\n ‘My belief is that yoga[4. Yoga<\/em> means here the queiscent state into which by practice &c., the mind is disciplined. It is the state of mind freed from all thoughts or trains of consciousness relating to worldly concerns. This state of mind functioning purely on the spiritual plane is called sam\u0101dhi<\/em>, when all conscious-ness of body and self are withdrawn for the time being. It is the state of trance, or spiritual ecstasy, (vide<\/em>, my Lectures on Inspiration, Intuition and Ecstasy in 3 Parts).], is hard to be won by him of ungoverned mind; but can be won by him of mind mastered, using (proper) means (therefor).’<\/span><\/p>\n That it is difficult to arrest the mind, which by nature is of a roaming character, is beyond denial. But the possibility of taming it anyhow depends upon generating in the mind a love (or liking) for \u0101tma by accustoming it to reflect on its (\u0101tma\u2019s excellences), and an aversion (or dislike) for objects other than \u0101tma, by presenting before its imagination the inherent imperfections of those objects.<\/span><\/p>\n By him who has not subjugated the mind, yoga[5. Yoga<\/em> means here the queiscent state into which by practice &c., the mind is disciplined. It is the state of mind freed from all thoughts or trains of consciousness relating to worldly concerns. This state of mind functioning purely on the spiritual plane is called sam\u0101dhi<\/em>, when all conscious-ness of body and self are withdrawn for the time being. It is the state of trance, or spiritual ecstasy, (vide<\/em>, my Lectures on Inspiration, Intuition and Ecstasy in 3 Parts).] is certainly difficult to achieve, but it (i.e.<\/em>, yoga of spiritual equality, or the cognizing sameness of spirit everywhere), is feasible to him who gains control over mind, by using proper methods.<\/span><\/p>\n Mind-control is attainable by the performance of the already described Wisdom-based Karma-Yoga, \u2014which is worshipping Me\u2014.<\/span><\/p>\n Arjuna asks again, in order to understand well, the greatness (or virtue) of (Karma-)yoga, he had already heard about, in the verse:<\/span><\/p>\n ‘In this there is no loss of effort’ &c., (II-40<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n The greatness of Karma-yoga there described is certainly that which embodies \u0101tma-wisdom (or that which involves \u0101tma-wisdom) within it, and culminating in yoga (meditation or \u0101tma-union by meditation). That greatness of yoga itself[6. The meaning is that the nature of Karma-yoga declared in Lecture III should not be considered as in any way differing from what is taught here; for Karma-yoga is that which has calm \u0101tma-meditation for its culmination, previous to \u0101tma-revealment.], (is what Arjuna now asks :)\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n >> Chapter 6 verse 37<\/a><\/p>\n archived in https:\/\/githa.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n pramEyam (goal) \u2013 http:\/\/koyil.org<\/a> SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 6 << Chapter 6 verse 35 SlOkam \u2013 Original asamyathAthmanA yOgO dushprApa ithi mE mathi: | vaSyAthmanA thu yathathA SakyO\u2019vApthum upAyatha: || word-by-word meaning asamyathAthmanA – one who cannot control his mind yOga: – yOga (of having equal vision) dhushprApa: – difficult to attain … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-6","category-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}SlOkam \u2013 Original<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n vaSyAthmanA thu yathathA SakyO\u2019vApthum upAyatha: ||<\/em><\/p>\nword-by-word meaning <\/h3>\n
\nyOga: – yOga (of having equal vision)
\ndhushprApa: – difficult to attain
\nithi – is
\nmE mathi: – my conclusion.
\nthu – but
\nupAyatha: – by the means of karma yOga (which was explained previously)
\nvaSyAthmanA – having controlled his mind
\nyathathA – one who performs yOga practice (of SamadharSana (equal vision))
\navApthum SakyathE – becomes easy to attain.<\/p>\nSimple Translation <\/h3>\n
Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n
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