Guest guest Posted May 14, 2002 Report Share Posted May 14, 2002 bold">YOGA AND THE YOGI font-weight:bold">What is called renunciation you font-weight:bold">should know to be the same as yoga, or linking oneself with the Supreme, O son of Pändu, for one can never become a yogé unle 13.5pt;font-weight:bold">ss he renounces the desire for sense gratification. font-weight:bold">For one who is a neophyte in the eightfold yoga system, work is said to be the means; and for one who is already elevated in yoga, cessation of all material activities is said to be the means. font-weight:bold">A person is said to be elevated in yoga when, having renounced all material desires, he neither acts for sense gratification nor engage 13.5pt;font-weight:bold">s in fruitive activities. bold">B.Gita 13.5pt;font-weight:bold"> 6.2-4 font-weight:bold">A person is said to be established in self-realization and is called a yogé [or mystic] when he is fully satisfied by virtue of acquired knowledge and realization. Such a person is situated in transcendence and is self-controlled. He sees everything—whether it be pebbles, stones or gold—as the same. bold">B.Gita 13.5pt;font-weight:bold"> 6.8 font-weight:bold">There is no possibility of one’s becoming a yogé, O Arjuna, if one eats too much or eats too little, sleeps too much or does not sleep enough. font-weight:bold">He who is regulated in his habits of eating, sleeping, recreation and work can mitigate all material pains by practicing the yoga system. font-weight:bold">When the yogé, by practice of yoga, di 13.5pt;font-weight:bold">sciplines his mental activities and becomes situated in transcendence - devoid of all material desires - he is said to be well established in yoga. bold">B.Gita 13.5pt;font-weight:bold"> 6.16-18 font-weight:bold">In the stage of perfection called trance, or samädhi, one’s mind is completely restrained from material mental activities by practice of yoga. Thi 13.5pt;font-weight:bold">s perfection is characterized by one’s ability to see the self by the pure mind and to relish and rejoice in the self. In that joyous state, one is situated in boundless transcendental happiness, realized through transcendental senses. Established thus, one never departs from the truth, and upon gaining this he thinks there is no greater gain. Being situated in such a position, one is never shaken, even in the midst of greatest difficulty. This indeed is actual freedom from all mi 13.5pt;font-weight:bold">series arising from material contact. font-weight:bold">One should engage oneself in the practice of yoga with determination and faith and not be deviated from the path. One should abandon, without exception, all material desires born of mental speculation and thus control all the senses on all sides by the mind. bold">B.Gita 13.5pt;font-weight:bold"> 6.20-24 Thus the self-controlled yogé, constantly engaged in yoga practice, becomes free from all material contamination and achieves the highest stage of perfect happiness in transcendental loving service to the Lord. font-weight:bold">A true yogé observes Me in all beings and also sees every being in Me. Indeed, the self-realized person sees Me, the 13.5pt;font-weight:bold">same Supreme Lord, everywhere. bold">B.Gita 13.5pt;font-weight:bold"> 6.28-29 font-weight:bold">Such a yogé, who engages in the worshipful service of the Supersoul, knowing that I and the Supersoul are one, remains always in Me in all circumstances. font-weight:bold">He is a perfect yogé who, by comparison to his own self, sees the true equality of all beings, in both their happiness and their distress, O Arjuna! bold">B.Gita 13.5pt;font-weight:bold"> 6.31-32 font-weight:bold">The unsuccessful yogé, after many, many years of enjoyment on the planets of the pious living entities, is born into a family of righteous people, or into a family of rich aristocracy. bold">B.Gita 13.5pt;font-weight:bold"> 6.41 And when the yogé engages himself with sincere endeavor in making further progress, being washed of all contaminations, then ultimately, achieving perfection after many, many births of practice, he attains the supreme goal. font-weight:bold">A yogé is greater than the ascetic, greater than the empiricist and greater than the fruitive worker. Therefore, O Arjuna, in all circumstances, be a yogé. font-weight:bold">And of all yogés, the one with great faith who always abides in Me, think 13.5pt;font-weight:bold">s of Me within himself, and renders transcendental loving service to Me - he is the most intimately united with Me in yoga and is the highest of all. That is My opinion. bold">B.Gita 13.5pt;font-weight:bold"> 6.45-47 font-weight:bold">The yogic situation is that of detachment from all 13.5pt;font-weight:bold">sensual engagements. 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