Shloka: BG 6.1
The Blessed Lord said: He who performs his bounden duty without depending on the fruits of his actions—he is a sannyasi ...
Shloka: BG 6.2
Do you, O Arjuna, know that Yoga is what they call renunciation; no one indeed becomes a Yogi who has not renounced thei...
Shloka: BG 6.3
For a sage who wishes to attain to Yoga, action is said to be the means; for the same sage who has attained Yoga, inacti...
Shloka: BG 6.4
When a person is not attached to the sense-objects or to actions, having renounced all thoughts, then they are said to h...
Shloka: BG 6.5
One should raise oneself by one's own self alone; let not one lower oneself; for the self alone is one's own friend, and...
Shloka: BG 6.6
The Self is the friend of the self of him by whom the Self has been conquered; but to the unconquered self, this Self st...
Shloka: BG 6.7
The Supreme Self of him who is self-controlled and peaceful remains balanced in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, as wel...
Shloka: BG 6.8
The Yogi who is satisfied with the knowledge and wisdom of the Self, who has conquered the senses, and to whom a clod of...
Shloka: BG 6.9
He who is of the same mind towards the good-hearted, friends, enemies, the indifferent, the neutral, the hateful, the re...
Shloka: BG 6.10
Let the yogi constantly strive to keep the mind steady, remaining in solitude, alone, with the body and mind controlled,...
Shloka: BG 6.11
In a clean spot, having established a firm seat of his own, neither too high nor too low, made of cloth, skin, and kusha...
Shloka: BG 6.12
There, having made the mind one-pointed, with the actions of the mind and senses controlled, let him, seated on the seat...
Shloka: BG 6.13
Let him firmly hold his body, head, and neck erect and still, gazing at the tip of his nose without looking around.
Shloka: BG 6.14
Serene-minded, fearless, firm in the vow of a Brahmachari, having controlled their mind, thinking of Me and balanced in ...
Shloka: BG 6.15
Thus, always keeping the mind balanced, the yogi, with the mind controlled, attains the peace abiding in Me, culminating...
Shloka: BG 6.16
Verily, Yoga is not possible for him who eats too much, nor for him who does not eat at all, nor for him who sleeps too ...
Shloka: BG 6.17
Yoga becomes the destroyer of pain for him who is moderate in eating and recreation (such as walking, etc.), who exercis...
Shloka: BG 6.18
When the perfectly controlled mind rests in the Self alone, free from longing for any of the objects of desire, then it ...
Shloka: BG 6.19
As a lamp placed in a windless spot does not flicker, so is the Yogi of a controlled mind, who practices Yoga in the Sel...
Shloka: BG 6.20
When the mind, restrained by the practice of yoga, attains quietude, and when one sees the Self by the Self, they are sa...
Shloka: BG 6.21
When he (the Yogi) feels that infinite bliss which can be grasped by the pure intellect and which transcends the senses,...
Shloka: BG 6.22
Having obtained it, he thinks there is no other gain superior to it; established in it, he is not moved even by heavy so...
Shloka: BG 6.23
Let this be known by the name of Yoga, the severance from union with pain. This Yoga should be practiced with determinat...
Shloka: BG 6.24
Abandoning unreservedly all desires born of Sankalpa (thought and imagination) and completely restraining the whole grou...
Shloka: BG 6.25
Little by little, let him attain steadiness of the intellect by holding it firmly; having made the mind establish itself...
Shloka: BG 6.26
From whatever cause the restless and unsteady mind wanders away, let him restrain it from that and bring it under the co...
Shloka: BG 6.27
Supreme Bliss indeed comes to this Yogi whose mind is made peaceful, whose passion is quelled, who has become Brahman, a...
Shloka: BG 6.28
The yogi, always engaging the mind thus (in the practice of yoga), is freed from sins and easily enjoys the infinite bli...
Shloka: BG 6.29
With the mind harmonized by Yoga, he sees the Self abiding in all beings and all beings in the Self; he sees the same ev...
Shloka: BG 6.30
He who sees Me everywhere and sees everything in Me, never becomes separated from Me, nor do I from him.
Shloka: BG 6.31
He who, being established in unity, worships Me, who dwells in all beings, that yogi abides in Me, whatever their mode o...
Shloka: BG 6.32
He who, through the likeness of the Self, O Arjuna, sees reality everywhere, be it pleasure or pain, is regarded as the ...
Shloka: BG 6.33
Arjuna said, "O Krishna, I do not see how this Yoga of equanimity, which you have taught me, can be maintained steadily,...
Shloka: BG 6.34
The mind is indeed restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding, O Krishna; I consider it as difficult to control as cont...
Shloka: BG 6.35
The Blessed Lord said, "Undoubtedly, O mighty-armed Arjuna, the mind is difficult to control and restless; but with prac...
Shloka: BG 6.36
I think Yoga is hard to be attained by one with an uncontrolled self, but the self-controlled and striving one can attai...
Shloka: BG 6.37
Arjuna said, "He who is unable to control himself, even though he has faith, and whose mind wanders away from Yoga, what...
Shloka: BG 6.38
Fallen from both, does he not perish like a rent cloud, supportless, O mighty-armed one, deluded on the path of Brahman?
Shloka: BG 6.39
O Krishna, please completely dispel this doubt of mine, for it is not possible for anyone but You to do so.
Shloka: BG 6.40
The Blessed Lord said, "O Arjuna, neither in this world nor in the next will there be destruction for him; none, indeed,...
Shloka: BG 6.41
Having attained to the worlds of the righteous and having dwelt there for everlasting years, he who fell from Yoga is bo...
Shloka: BG 6.42
Or he is born in a family of even the wisest of yogis; verily, such a birth is very difficult to obtain in this world.
Shloka: BG 6.43
Then he comes into contact with the knowledge acquired in his former body and strives even more for perfection, O Arjuna...
Shloka: BG 6.44
By that same former practice, he is borne on in spite of himself. Even he who merely wishes to know Yoga goes beyond the...
Shloka: BG 6.45
But the Yogi who strives assiduously, purified of sins and perfected gradually over many births, reaches the highest goa...
Shloka: BG 6.46
The yogi is thought to be superior to the ascetics, even superior to those who have knowledge obtained through the study...
Shloka: BG 6.47