Chapter 6

Dhyāna (ध्यान)

The mind is trained. The yogi sees the same self in every being.

Summary

Chapter 6 is the training of the mind. The one who does his work without depending on the fruit is the renouncer and the yogin. How to sit, how the mind slips, and how it is brought back are said as verses. The yogin sees the same self in every being. The one who falls from the path is not lost.

नेपालीमा

अध्याय ६ मनको तालिम हो। फलमा नअडिई आफ्नो काम गर्ने नै संन्यासी र योगी हो। कसरी बस्ने, मन कसरी चिप्लिन्छ र कसरी फर्काइन्छ भन्ने कुरा श्लोकहरूले भन्छन्। योगीले हरेक प्राणीमा एउटै आत्मा देख्छ। बाटोबाट खसेको मानिस हराउँदैन।

1–9 श्रीभगवान् Śrī Bhagavān · Renunciation is the yoga

Summary

Renunciation is this yoga. The one who does what is to be done, without depending on the fruit, is the saṃnyāsin (संन्यासिन्) and the yogin, not the one who has merely dropped the fire. Lift the self by the self. The higher self is the friend of the self that has conquered, and the enemy of the self that has not.

नेपालीमा

संन्यास यही योग हो। फलमा नअडिई गर्नुपर्ने कर्म गर्ने नै संन्यासी र योगी हो, आगो मात्र छाड्ने होइन। आत्माले आत्मालाई उठा। जितेको आत्माको मित्र उच्च आत्मा हुन्छ, र नजितेकोको शत्रु।

6.1Kṛṣṇa (कृष्ण) said: Who does the work that is to be done and does not lean on its fruit, he is the renouncer and he is the yogin — not the man without the fire, and not the man who does nothing.6.2What they call renunciation, know that to be yoga, son of Pāṇḍu (पाण्डु), for no one becomes a yogin whose resolve has not been renounced.6.3For the sage who wishes to climb to yoga, action is said to be the means; for that same man once he has climbed onto yoga, quiet is said to be the means.6.4When he does not cling in the objects of the senses and does not cling in actions, then he is called one who has climbed onto yoga, a renouncer of every resolve.6.5Let him lift the self by the self. Let him not degrade the self.6.6The self is the friend of the self of that man by whom the self has been conquered by the self; for the man who has not done that, the self itself would stand in enmity, like an enemy.6.7Of the man whose self is conquered and who has grown quiet, the supreme self is composed, in cold and heat, in pleasure and pain, and likewise in honor and dishonor.6.8The yogin whose self is satisfied by knowledge and by realized knowledge, who stands unmoved, whose senses are conquered, for whom a clod, a stone, and gold are the same, is called yoked.6.9He is set apart whose understanding is even among the well-wisher, the friend, the enemy, the indifferent, the neutral, the one to be hated, and the kinsman, and among the good and the wicked as well.QuizFive questions on Renunciation is the yoga.

10–32 श्रीभगवान् Śrī Bhagavān · How the mind is held

Summary

How the mind is held. Alone, with measured food and sleep, the gaze at the tip of the nose, the mind offered to Kṛṣṇa (कृष्ण). It slips, and it is brought back from wherever it went. The highest joy, in these verses, is the one the senses cannot touch. The yogin sees self in all beings and all beings in the self. The section describes the stance. It is not a sequence of exercises.

नेपालीमा

मन कसरी थामिन्छ? योगी एक्लै बस्छ, खाना र निद्रा नापेर राख्छ, दृष्टि नाकको टुप्पोमा राख्छ, र मन कृष्णलाई सुम्पन्छ। मन चिप्लिन्छ, र जहाँ गए पनि त्यहीँबाट फर्काइन्छ। यी श्लोकमा सर्वोच्च सुख इन्द्रियले छुन नसक्ने सुख हो। योगीले सबै प्राणीमा आत्मा र आत्मामा सबै प्राणी देख्छ। यो खण्डले स्थिति बताउँछ। यो व्यायामको क्रम होइन।

6.10The yogin should constantly yoke the self, settled in a solitary place, alone, with mind and self held in, without expectation and without grasping.6.11Having set up, in a clean place, his own firm seat, not too high and not too low, with cloth, hide, and kuśa grass laid one over the next.6.12There, having made the mind one-pointed, having sat on the seat with the workings of mind and senses held in, he should yoke yoga for the cleansing of the self.6.13Holding body, head, and neck even and unmoving, steady, looking at the tip of his own nose and not looking about at the directions.6.14With the self grown quiet, fear gone, established in the brahmacārin's vow, having drawn the mind in, he should sit yoked, his mind on me, with me as the highest.6.15The yogin who yokes the self always in this way, his mind held, reaches the peace whose highest is the quenching and which rests in me.6.16Yoga is not for one who eats too much, Arjuna, nor for one who does not eat at all, nor for one given to too much sleep, nor indeed for one who stays awake.6.17For one whose eating and movement are measured, whose effort in actions is measured, and whose sleep and waking are measured, yoga becomes the destroyer of pain.6.18When the held mind stands in the self alone, and he is without craving for any desire, then he is called yoked.6.19As a lamp standing where there is no wind does not flicker, that likeness is taught of the yogin whose mind is held, who is yoking the yoga of the self.6.20Where the mind, stopped by the practice of yoga, comes to rest, and where, seeing the self by the self, he is content in the self.6.21Where he knows that endless happiness, grasped by the understanding and beyond the senses, and, established there, he does not slip from the truth.6.22Having gained which, he thinks no other gain greater than it, and established in which, he is not shaken even by a heavy pain.6.23One should know that as named yoga, the unjoining from the joining with pain; that yoga is to be practiced with resolve, by a mind that does not grow weary.6.24Having abandoned without remainder all desires born of resolve, and having held the host of the senses in from every side by the mind itself.6.25Little by little he should come to rest, by an understanding gripped by firmness, and, having set the mind in the self, he should not think of anything at all.6.26Wherever the restless mind runs, let him bring it back from there.6.27The highest happiness comes to this yogin whose mind is at peace, whose restless drive has gone quiet, who has become brahman, who is without stain.6.28Yoking the self always in this way, the yogin whose stain has gone easily reaches the endless happiness that is the touch of brahman.6.29He sees the self standing in all beings, and all beings in the self.6.30Who sees me everywhere, and sees all in me, is not lost to me, and I am not lost to him.6.31The yogin who honors me as standing in all beings, having taken his stand in oneness, abides in me, however he is living.6.32Who sees the same everywhere by the likeness of his own self, whether happiness or pain, that yogin is held to be the highest, Arjuna.QuizFive questions on How the mind is held.

33–47 Arjuna (अर्जुन), श्रीभगवान् Śrī Bhagavān · The one who falls

Summary

The one who falls. Arjuna says the mind is as hard to hold as the wind. Practice and dispassion are the reply. He asks the fate of the one who has faith and then slips from yoga. That one is not destroyed. He is born in a house that favours the return, and he is carried further by the former practice. The yogin is set above the men of austerity, of knowledge, and of works. The section is mercy for the unfinished.

नेपालीमा

योगबाट खस्ने मानिसको कुरा। अर्जुन भन्छन्, मन हावाझैँ समात्न गाह्रो छ। अभ्यास र वैराग्य जवाफ हुन्। उनी श्रद्धा राखेर योगबाट चिप्लिएको मानिसको गति सोध्छन्। त्यो नष्ट हुँदैन। ऊ फर्किन सजिलो हुने घरमा जन्मन्छ, र अघिल्लो अभ्यासले उसलाई अझ अगाडि लैजान्छ। योगीलाई तपस्वी, ज्ञानी र कर्मठभन्दा माथि राखिन्छ। यो खण्ड अधुरोप्रतिको दया हो।

6.33Arjuna said: This yoga which you have taught as evenness, Madhusūdana, I do not see a firm standing for it, because of restlessness.6.34For the mind is restless, Kṛṣṇa, churning, strong, and stubborn, and I think holding it down is as hard to do as holding the wind.6.35Kṛṣṇa (कृष्ण) said: Without doubt, mighty-armed one, the mind is hard to hold and it moves; but by practice, son of Kuntī, and by dispassion, it is grasped.6.36Yoga is hard to reach by one whose self is unrestrained — that is my view — but by one who strives, his self in his control, it can be reached by the means.6.37Arjuna said: A man who does not strive, though he came with faith, whose mind has slipped from yoga, not having reached yoga's attainment — what path does he go, Kṛṣṇa?6.38Fallen from both, without a standing, bewildered on the path of brahman, does he not perish like a torn cloud, mighty-armed one?6.39You should cut this doubt of mine without remainder, Kṛṣṇa, for other than you no cutter of this doubt is to be found.6.40Neither here nor hereafter is such a man destroyed.6.41Having reached the worlds of those who did good, and having lived there through long years, the one fallen from yoga is born in a house of the pure and the prosperous.6.42Or he comes to be in a family of wise yogins, and a birth of this kind is harder to obtain in the world.6.43There he obtains that joining with understanding which belonged to the former body, and he strives again from that point toward perfection, joy of the Kurus.6.44By that very former practice he is carried, even against his will, and even one who only wishes to know yoga goes beyond the brahman of the word.6.45The yogin who keeps striving with effort, his stain cleared, perfected through many births, then goes to the highest path.6.46The yogin is greater than the ascetics, and he is held greater even than the knowers; the yogin is greater than the ritualists. Therefore be a yogin, Arjuna.6.47Of all yogins, he who honors me with faith, his inner self gone to me, is held by me to be the most yoked.QuizFive questions on The one who falls.