The text explores the profound concept of achieving excellence through disciplined control of one's senses and mind. It emphasizes that true mastery is attained by engaging the mind in noble and divine pursuits, rather than base and vulgar activities.
3-10 When all activities in life are changed into Yajna, the spectacle also undergoes a corresponding change. Man is born to give and not to grab. The grabbing man pays the penalty in the form of misery; the giver reaps the reward in the form of undiluted joy.
5-01 Performance of action is superior to the renunciation of action.
5-03 It is not action but attitude that binds or liberates man.
12-10 If you are unable even to practice Abbyasa-yoga, be you intent on doing actions for My sake; even by performing actions for My sake you will attain perfection.
When a man changes his attitude he is freed from bondage. Whatever work takes place through man is actually the work of the Lord. "Lord, You have Your work done by me. In ignorance I feel 'I am the doer.' May I be only an instrument.'' Attitude of this kind emancipates the aspirant. --Sri Ramakrishna.
13-09 The right attitude is to view all beings and all possessions as belonging to the Lord. Worldly events are prone to cause likes and dislikes in a worldly man. But the spiritual aspirant ought to practice evenmindedness in all eventualities.
6-07. The self-disciplined and serene man's Supreme Self is constant in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, as also in honor and dishonor.
6-09. He stands supreme who has equal regard for friends, companions, enemies, neutrals, arbiters, the hateful, the relatives, saints and sinners.
3-07. He excels, who, restraining the senses by mind, unattached, directs his organs of action to the path of work.
Disciplined Mind:-
Change his attitude and seek to engage his mind on things divine, chooses to engage the ever active and indulgent senses on things noble and elevating instead of on those, base and vulgar, in all detailed activities of the mind and the senses. The sublimated निर्मल करना senses cause harm to none while elevating their owner to sublimity गौरव उन्नति प्रतिष्ठा भव्यता.
3-04. Man gains no actionlessness by abstaining from activity, nor does he rise to perfection by mere renunciation. The state of perfection is that in which all activities are transcended. A fully ripe fruit may be said to have reached the state of perfection.
2-68. His cognition is well poised, whose senses are completely restrained from their object.
2-49. Motivated Karma is, far inferior to that performed in the equanimity of mind; take refuge in the evenness of the mind; wretched are the result seekers.
2-48 Perform action, being fixed in yoga,
renouncing attachments, and even-minded in success and failure; equilibrium is verily yoga.
2-02 Be aryan= highly evolved and cultured man = who scrupulously adheres to dharma (Righteous).