Dhyana Yoga

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THE BLESSED LORD SAID:

 

1. He who, without depending on the fruits of action, performs his bounden duty,

he is a Samnyasin and a Yogin: not he who is without fire and without action.

 

2. Do thou, O Pandava, know Yoga to be that which they call renunciation; no

one, verily, becomes a Yogin who has not renounced thoughts.

 

3. For a devotee who wishes to attain to Yoga, action is said to be the means.

For the same (devotee), when he has attained to Yoga, quiescence (Sama) is said

to be the means.

 

4. When a man, renouncing all thoughts, is not attached to sense-objects and

actions, then he is said to have attained to Yoga.

 

5. Let a man raise himself by himself, let him not lower himself; for he alone

is the friend of himself, he alone is the enemy of himself.

 

6. To him who has conquered himself by himself, his own self is the friend of

himself, but to him who has not (conquered) himself, his own self stands in the

place of an enemy like the (external) foe.

 

7. The self-controlled and serene man's Supreme Self is steadfast in cold and

heat, in pleasure and pain, as also in honour and disgrace.

 

8. The Yogin whose self is satisfied with knowledge and wisdom, who remains

unshaken, who has conquered the senses, he is said to be a saint - for whom a

lump of earth, a stone and gold are equal.

 

9. He is esteemed, who is of the same mind to the good-hearted, friends, foes,

the indifferent, the neutral, the hateful, relatives, the righteous and the

un-righteous.

 

10. Let the Yogin try constantly to keep the mind steady, remaining in

seclusion, alone, with the mind and body controlled, free from desire and having

no possessions.

 

to be continued...