Samnyasa Yoga

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21. With the self unattached to external contacts, he finds the joy which is in

the Self; with the Self engaged in the contemplation of Brahman he attains the

endless joy.

 

22. For, those delights which are born of contacts are only generators of pain,

having a beginning and an end, O son of Kunti; a wise man rejoices not in them.

 

23. He that is able, while still here, to with-stand, before liberation from the

body, the impulse of desire and anger, he is a Yogin, he is a happy man.

 

24. Whoso has his joy within and his pastime within and whoso has his light

within only, that Yogin attains Brahman's bliss, himself becoming Brahman.

 

25. The sages attain Brahman's bliss - they whose sins have been destroyed and

doubts removed, who are self-controlled and intent on the welfare of all beings.

 

26. To the devotees who are free from desire and anger, who have controlled

their thought and who have known the self, Brahman's bliss exists everywhere.

 

27-28. Shutting out all external contracts and fixing the sight between the

eye-brows, equalising the out-going and the in-going breaths which pass through

the nostrils, controlling the senses, mind and intellect, having moksha as his

highest goal, free from desire, fear and anger - the sage who ever (remains

thus) is verily liberated.

 

29. On knowing Me - the Lord of all sacrifices and austerities, the Great Lord

of all Worlds, the Friend of all beings - he goes to Peace.