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A pleasant halt and the remaining journey

Week 20, Chapter 6, Shloka- 33-47.

Arjuna asks further— in your compassion O Krishna, you have told me the best practices and ways to attain yoga, however what about the ever-wandering mind that is incontrollable like the blowing winds? and what about a seeker who dies in between before he could attain his liberation while following the discipline of yogic practices told by you?

Tells Krishna—the mind no doubt is a wanderer, but constant yogic practice along with detachment will train it to be stable. Also, the mind when tastes the sweetness of self- bliss (the joy of the spirit), will come back to the spirit again and again. And the yogic practices I am telling have the power to tame the attention and it is always better to try than not trying at all.

About the seeker who is practicing the discipline of yoga and dies before attaining his liberation—due to his desire for liberation, his death is like a halt- when the soul is taking rest and is a pleasant event. He will certainly take the rebirth and will be born with the fruits and blessings of the practices of his previous life. Will be born in a family which follows the path of dharma, a clan that is pure and practices ‘swa-dharma’ with spiritual wisdom; or to those yogis who are faithful to the eternal spirit. He is even blessed by wealth and abundance. He is born with ‘sad-buddhi’, and his intellect would naturally penetrate through the most difficult of subjects (of spirituality). He will naturally attain the yogic state while in the material world. Such a seeker attains tremendous patience and displays great contentment. The punyas of various years of yogic practices adorns him with great wisdom and thus he becomes one with the Brahm—attains singularity during his lifetime only. So, I tell you O Arjuna, become a yogi from inside (temperament). A yogi like that is my own self personified.


concludes chapter 6.

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