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\n\t\tCHAPTER SIX<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\n\t\tkrishna<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWho doeth the works he hath
\nto do but dependeth not on the fruit of his works, he is the Sannyasin, and he
\nis the Yogin, and not he who lighteth not the daily fire and doeth not the
\ndaily ritual. Know, O son of Pandou, that what they have called renunciation is
\neven Yoga, since no man becometh a Yogin if he hath not renounced the
\nimaginations of the Will. Of the sage who has yet to ascend the hill of Yoga,
\nworks are the medium, but calm is the medium of him who sitteth already on the
\nhill-tops. For when a man has renounced all the imaginings of the Will and his
\nheart clings not to his works and clings not to the objects of the senses, that
\nis the true Sannyasin, that is the sitter on the hill-top of Yoga. Let a man
\ndeliver his soul by its own strength and let him not afflict his spirit to weaken
\nit; for a man\u2019s Self is its own and only friend and its own and only enemy. To
\nthat man his Self is a friend who has conquered the Self by the Self, but when
\nhe is not in possession of his Self it worketh enmity against him like an
\noutward foe. Now when he has mastered Self and is at peace, then the Self of
\nhim is utterly at its ease, un\u00adaffected by heat and cold, pleasure and pain,
\nimperturbable in honour and disgrace. The Yogin whose soul is satisfied with
\nWisdom and discernment, the immovable sitter on his hill-top and victor over
\nhis senses, he alone is called the Yogin who hath the Yoga; and gold and gravel
\nor stone, to him all are one substance. He who hath one heart for lover, and
\nfriend, and foe-man and those who care not for him, who maketh no difference
\nbetween the saint and the sinner, he is the truly great among men. Let the
\nYogin gird his Self continually to Yoga, solitary, governed in heart and
\nspirit, without desires and without the sense of belongings. In a pure and holy
\nregion let him set up his steady seat, neither very high nor very low, with
\ngrass of; Cusha and a deerskin thereon, and on that a robe. Then with his mind
\ndirected to one point, with a rein on the workings of his heart and senses, let
\nhim sit on the seat he has made and betake himself to Yoga for the cleansing of
\nthe Self within. He shall sit steady, holding head and neck and body in one
\nline and motionless, and he shall keep his gaze fixed on the joining point of
\nhis nostrils, so that his eyes shall not wander over the regions; so steadfast
\nin the vow of abstinence and purity, with a glad and calm spirit from which
\nfear hath been driven out, with a mind under re\u00adstraint, with a heart full of
\nMe, let him sit in Yoga, giving himself utterly to Me. Even if he yoke himself
\nso to Yoga with a governed heart, the Yogin <\/span><\/p>\n

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reacheth to that Peace in Me
\nof which cessation in the Eternal is the sum\u00admit. Yoga is not for the
\novereater, neither can a man get Yoga by abstain\u00ading utterly from food, nor for
\nhim that is overgiven to sleep nor yet for him that waketh always. Whoso eateth
\nand playeth with his mind in God, whose striving in his works, and his sleep
\nand his waking is for Him, Yoga cometh to that man and slayeth his sorrows.
\nWhen the mind is wholly under government, and stands well-tamed in the Self,
\nwhen all desirable things cannot get the heart to hunger after them, then a man
\nis said to be in Yoga. Even as the flame of a lamp in a windless place moveth
\nnot at all, such is the image men have handed down of a Yogin when he
\npractiseth Yoga with his heart under rein. Where the heart is sucked in from
\nits work\u00adings by the practice of Yoga, where by the strength of the Self the
\nmind of man seeth the Self and is wholly satisfied in the Self, where his
\ninward spirit knoweth that extreme and exceeding happiness which is beyond the
\nreach of the senses and which the reason cannot grasp, and it cleaveth to it
\nand moveth not from the truth of things \u2014 which when a man has won he cannot
\nconceive of any greater gain, to which when he holds he cannot be moved
\ntherefrom even by the most sore poignant grief\u2014know that for a man\u2019s divorce
\nfrom his long wedlock with sorrow, which is called Yoga; resolutely should a
\nman set himself to that Yoga with a heart that will not despair. Let him
\nrelinquish all the desires that are born of the Will\u2019s ima\u00adginings, not keeping
\none back for his comfort. He must surround with his mind and force in from
\ntheir delight the cohort of the senses; so with the understanding self held
\nwell within the grasp of a strong control he must cabin in the mind to the Self
\nand think of nothing at all. Whenever and to whatever side darts away the infirm
\nand restless mind thou must curb it from its journey to bring it back within
\nthe Self and tame it to obedience \u2014 for a high beatitude cometh to such a Yogi,
\nwhose mind is calmed, whose active nature is tranquillised, who has no sin, who
\nhas wholly be\u00adcome Brahman. Easily shall the Yogi whoever thus setteth himself
\nto Yoga put from him the stain of obscuration, easily feel the utter bliss and
\nthe , touch divine. The soul that is set in Yoga seeth himself in all creatures
\nand all creatures in himself, and he hath one heart for all beings that the
\nworld containeth. When a man seeth Me everywhere and all the world in Me, am
\nwith him always and he is always with Me, and we are lost to each other never.
\nWhen the Yogin becometh one with all beings and loveth Me in all creatures,
\nthough he live and move in all manner of activities, he liveth and doeth only
\nin Me. For him I deem to be the greatest Yogin, O Urjoon,<\/span><\/p>\n

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 who looks alike on all
\nbeings everywhere as if they his own self, whether it be for happiness or
\nwhether it be for pain.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nurjoona<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cNay, Madhusudan, for the
\nrestlessness of man\u2019s mind I can see no sure abiding in this Yoga of
\none-heartedness of which thou hast spoken. For very restless is the mind, O
\nKrishna, and turbulent and strong and hard of mouth, and to rein it in I hold
\nas difficult as to put a bridle upon the wind.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nkrishna<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cSurely, O strong of arm,
\nthe mind is restless and hard to bridle, but by askesis, O son of Coonty, and
\nby turning away the heart from its affections, it can be caught and controlled.
\nVery difficult of attainment is Yoga to the ungoverned spirit, so I hold; but
\nwhen a man governeth himself and striveth by the right means, Yoga is not
\nimpossible to attain.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nurjoona<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen a man hath faith but
\ncannot strive aright and his mind swerveth from Yoga, and he attaineth not to
\nsuccess in Yoga, what is the last state of such a man, O Krishna? Does he lose
\nthis world and that other, does he perish like a breaking cloud, failing, O
\nstrong-armed, to get his immortal seat, losing his way on the path of the
\nEternal ? This doubt of mine must thou solve to its very heart, O Krishna, for
\nI shall not find any other who can destroy this doubt, but only Thee.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\u00a0<\/span><\/i>krishna<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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Neither in this world nor in
\nthe other, Partha, is there for that man any perdition. None who doeth good can
\ncome to an evil end, O beloved. But to the world of the righteous he goeth and
\nthere dwelleth for endless seasons and then is born again, the man fallen from
\nYoga, in a house of pure and fortunate men. Or else he even cometh to being in
\nthe house of the wise, in a land of Yogins, for such a birth as this in this
\nworld is one of the hardest to win. There he getteth touch again with the mind
\nhe had in his former body, and with that to start him he striveth yet harder
\nafter perfection, O delight of the Kurus. For he is seized and hurried forward
\neven by that former habit and askesis of his, though it be without his own
\nwill. Even if a man\u2019s mind is curious after Yoga, he overpasseth the outer
\nBrahman in <\/span><\/p>\n

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the Word. The Yogin
\nearnestly striving is purified of sin; perfected by toil of many births he
\narriveth at his highest salvation. Greater than the man of askesis is the
\nYogin, and greater I hold him even than the men of Know\u00adledge, and than the men
\nof works he is surely greater: a Yogin, therefore, shouldst thou be, O Urjoona.
\nAnd of all that are Yogins I deem him to have most yoga who, with his inner
\nSelf taking refuge in Me, hath faith in Me, and loveth Me and worshippeth Me.<\/span><\/p>\n

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