Dhyana Yoga

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THE BLESSED LORD SAID:

 

40. O Partha, neither in this world nor in the next is there destruction for

him; none, verily, who does good, My son, ever comes to grief.

 

41. Having attained to the worlds of the righteous and having dwelt there for

eternal years, he who failed in Yoga is reborn in a house of the pure and

wealthy.

 

42. Else, he is born in family of wise Yogins only. This, verily, a birth like

this, is very hard to obtain in this world.

 

43. There he gains touch with the knowledge that was acquired in the former body

and strives more than before for perfection, O son of the Kurus.

 

44. By that very former practice is he borne on, though unwilling. Even he who

merely wishes to know of Yoga rises superior to the Word-Brahman.

 

45. Verily, a Yogin who strives with assiduity, purified from sins and perfected

in the course of many births, then reaches the Supreme Goal.

 

46. A Yogin is deemed superior to men of austerity and superior to even men of

knowledge; he is also superior to men of action; therefore be thou a Yogin, O

Arjuna.

 

47. Of all Yogins, whoso, full of faith, worships Me with his inner self abiding

in Me, he is deemed by Me as most devout.