The Bhagavad Gita
The perfect guide to build a Perfect personality
Dialogue between me and Cosmic Consciousness
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 योगः Yoga 6-02 Strength of mind is his who practices yoga.The word 'Yoga' is derived from the Sanskrit root 'Yuj', meaning 'to join' or 'to yoke' or 'to unite'."Yoga is the very dexterity of work" P 37.2.11 Keeping the mind constant in all eventualities is the way of the wise. He who harmonizes his thought, word and deed verily gets into yoga.2-45 "Even mindedness is yoga".Yoga = bringing harmony between mind and body.2-48 Perform action, O Dhananjaya, being fixed in yoga, renouncing attachments, and even-minded in success and failure; equilibrium is verily yoga.बुद्धियुक्तो जहातीह उभे सुकृतदुष्कृते ।तस्माद्योगाय युज्यस्व योगः कर्मसु कौशलम् ॥ २-५०॥2-50. The one fixed in equanimity of mind frees oneself in his life from vice and virtue alike; therefore devote yourself to yoga; work done to perfection is verily yoga.2-50 ‘योग: कर्मसु कौशलम्’ 1. कर्मसु कौशलं योग: Efficiency in actions is yoga.2. कर्मसु योग: कौशलम् Yoga is skillful in actions.2-53. When mentation विचार-प्रक्रिया ceases in equilibrium = Samadhi or Spiritual Illumination. Atman in Its original Splendor is then realized. Yoga reaches its culmination here. This state of pure-Conscious is the goal of life.2.66 Yoga is the science of self-culture.4-28 Acquiring wealth by honest means and utilizing it for the public weal, is a form of Yajna.6-02. Sankalpa (Resolution) = selfish motive behind an action. Sanyasa is the renunciation of sankalpa. Strength of mind is his who practises yoga. Only a man of strong mind can meditate as well as discharge his duties very efficiently. This is how sankalpa sanyasa = karma yoga .6-18 Possession of the mind in its entirety is yoga. ---- Sri Ramakrishna6-23 The meaning of yoga is to yoke one with one's supreme nature.6-36. Yoga is hard to attain, I concede, by a man who cannot control himself; but it can be attained by him who has controlled himself and who strives by right means. 8-09 & 8-10 Prana or life-energy of the ordinary man leaves the body at death through the apertures. But it goes out differently when the yogi departs from the body. It gets concentrated between the eye-brows and exits through the skull. This last event is also the outcome of the strength of yoga.18-78 Yoga is union between the Divine and the human.

Love = Anandam = Bliss = 1st WingGod is love. Chapter 7 to 12 of the Bhagvad Gita are devoted to definition of God, and the cultivation of devotion. A man of devotion is attracted towards God. Pure loves generates sweetness. It also express itself as bliss. Supreme bliss is divinity itself. Anandam Brahmam - Bliss is Reality. It is in search of this bliss that souls struggle and hug life. But its bliss, life would not tolerated even for a moment. Out of the fully blossomed flower of emotion flows the nectar of Anandam. The second part of the Gita exhorts man to feast on It.The great factor in the formation of personality is love. All living beings are endowed with love, though the degree of it may vary. And this love can be purified as well as intensified. From pure love emanates sweetness in all its excellence. It has the power to bind all beings in affable unity with the Supreme Self = परमात्मा = Cosmic Consciousness = Sri Krishna.

Light = Cit = Knowledge = 2nd WingIntelligence, awareness, cognition, consciousness, conscience - these are terms indicating the same faculty.Chapters 13 to 18 of the Gita delineate the path of knowledge. By becoming brighter and brighter a burning lamp reveals itself and its surroundings in an increasing measure. It also begins to throw increasing light on the objects brought to its presence.The divine lamp of Intelligence is enshrined in the temple of the human frame. As the faculty of understanding undergoes purification, the inner Light begins to shine with greater glory. The processes of cleansing the faculty of understanding are presented in the third section dealing with the path of knowledge.God is light. It is ultimately realized by the seeker that what shines through human frame is none other than the inextinguishable Cosmic Light. The yoga of knowledge contributes towards the purification of faculty of understanding until it reaches its culmination in intuitive knowledge.The third and final factor is the intellect. It may be equated with the broad blazing sun, which reveals everything in its true light. But for the intellect, the higher qualities of things remain unrecognized.It is the intellect again that guides beings to right action. To a person endowed with an efficient hand, with a loving heart and with a clear head nothing more remains to be added. He becomes a complete personality verging on Divinity. Perfection marks him for its own. A harmonious development of the hand, the heart and the head is patent in such a personality.

Verily each activity is actuated by will. There is no karma independent of the will. The gross manifestation of the will is action. The entire creation is the manifestation of cosmic will. All forms of will resolve themselves ultimately into the will to live.Existence, not extinction is the essential nature of the soul. God is life. Souls have emanated from God. So they attempt to assert life in the midst of seeming extermination imposed on them by the play of Nature. This assertion of existence called Sat. And God is defined as Sat.The first six chapter of the Gita are devoted to the elucidation of Sat or existence aspect of Reality. Man feels but machine do not. Feeling is concomitant with life. It undergoes several modifications. Expressions such as like, friendship, fulfillment, admiration and support are all positive aspect of the faculty of feeling while dislike, enmity, frustration, jealousy and opposition are all its negative expression. Negative ones retard. To sublimate emotions to highest pitch is summum bonum of life.

In the upnishad of the Bhagwat Gita, the knowledge of Brahman, the supreme, the science of Yoga and dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjuna, this is the second discourse designatedTHE YOGA OF KNOLEDGESamkhya (Self Knowledge) and yoga are theory and practice of religion. They do not come into conflict one with the other. They augment each other. Rare indeed it is to know of the glory of Atman. And life gets enriched as Atman is known. Yoga is none other than living the life abundantly. By practice of yoga mind grows in purity. To the purified mind and concept of atman becomes progressively lucid. This is how jnana and yoga mutually aid.Enjoyment of pleasure and happiness is not the goal of the human life. The attainment of perfection is its supreme object. The means for it is to be absorbed in Samkhya and Yoga.

Karma yoga is Karma sanyasa-Karma Pertains to Prakriti and not Purusha-Same-sightedness Ensues from Knowledge-Bliss of Brahman Different from Sense-pleasure.In the Upanishad of the Bhagavad Gita, the knowledge of Brahman, the Supreme, the science of Yoga and the dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjuna.