🪷 Dhyāna Yoga

Bhagavad Gītā Chapter 6 · meditation discipline · moderation · abhyāsa-vairāgya · equal vision · Krishna’s assurance · bhakta-yogī culmination

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Evidence and limitations · Divine Param-Vidyā

Read and practise the chapter’s sequence

Begin with the text and let present practice—not a natal score—be the field of discernment.

1. Lift the self; do not lower it · BG 6.5

उद्धरेदात्मनाऽऽत्मानं नात्मानमवसादयेत्। आत्मैव ह्यात्मनो बन्धुरात्मैव रिपुरात्मनः॥

Textual teaching: The verse directs self-uplift and names the self as its own friend and its own adversary.

Reader practice: Notice which present action steadies the mind and which action degrades it; choose the steadying action without assigning yourself a spiritual rank.

2. Prepare place, seat, senses, and attention · BG 6.10-12

योगी युञ्जीत सततमात्मानं रहसि स्थितः। एकाकी यतचित्तात्मा निराशीरपरिग्रहः॥ शुचौ देशे प्रतिष्ठाप्य स्थिरमासनमात्मनः। नात्युच्छ्रितं नातिनीचं चैलाजिनकुशोत्तरम्॥ तत्रैकाग्रं मनः कृत्वा यतचित्तेन्द्रियक्रियः। उपविश्यासने युञ्ज्याद्योगमात्मविशुद्धये॥

Textual teaching: The sequence names seclusion, restraint, freedom from expectation and accumulation, a clean stable seat, one-pointed attention, and disciplined senses.

Reader practice: Choose a clean, stable, undisturbed place and a sustainable seated practice. Treat historical seat materials through context rather than as a universal modern prescription.

3. Reject excess; practise moderation · BG 6.16-17

नात्यश्नतस्तु योगोऽस्ति न चैकान्तमनश्नतः। न चातिस्वप्नशीलस्य जाग्रतो नैव चार्जुन॥ युक्ताहारविहारस्य युक्तचेष्टस्य कर्मसु। युक्तस्वप्नावबोधस्य योगो भवति दुःखहा॥

Textual teaching: Krishna rejects extremes of eating, fasting, sleep, and wakefulness and affirms measured food, recreation, action, sleep, and waking.

Reader practice: Build a repeatable rhythm that does not depend on deprivation, exhaustion, or astrological timing. Medical or dietary needs require qualified care, not a verse-derived diagnosis.

4. Return the wandering mind · BG 6.26

यतो यतो निश्चरति मनश्चञ्चलमस्थिरम्। ततस्ततो नियम्यैतदात्मन्येव वशं नयेत्॥

Textual teaching: Whenever the restless, unsteady mind wanders, the instruction is to restrain it and bring it back.

Reader practice: The return itself is the practice. Record consistency if useful, but do not convert distraction or return-counts into a measure of realization or human worth.

5. Contemplate equal vision · BG 6.29-32

सर्वभूतस्थमात्मानं सर्वभूतानि चात्मनि। ईक्षते योगयुक्तात्मा सर्वत्र समदर्शनः॥ यो मां पश्यति सर्वत्र सर्वं च मयि पश्यति। तस्याहं न प्रणश्यामि स च मे न प्रणश्यति॥ आत्मौपम्येन सर्वत्र समं पश्यति योऽर्जुन। सुखं वा यदि वा दुःखं सः योगी परमो मतः॥

Textual teaching: These verses describe seeing the Self in all beings, all beings in the Self, Krishna everywhere, and another’s pleasure and pain through comparison with oneself.

Reader practice: Let conduct toward beings test the contemplation. A horoscope, aspect count, or self-description cannot certify sama-darśana.

6. Abhyāsa and vairāgya · BG 6.35-36

असंशयं महाबाहो मनो दुर्निग्रहं चलम्। अभ्यासेन तु कौन्तेय वैराग्येण च गृह्यते॥ असंयतात्मना योगो दुष्प्राप इति मे मतिः। वश्यात्मना तु यतता शक्योऽवाप्तुमुपायतः॥

Textual teaching: Krishna acknowledges the restless mind and names practice and dispassion; he then contrasts the uncontrolled mind with striving through appropriate means.

Reader practice: Return regularly and loosen attachment to results. Neither abhyāsa nor vairāgya is a planetary quantity, and no fixed-day challenge guarantees the state described.

BG 6.37-45 · Arjuna’s question and Krishna’s assurance

Arjuna’s question · BG 6.37-39

अयतिः श्रद्धयोपेतो योगाच्चलितमानसः। अप्राप्य योगसंसिद्धिं कां गतिं कृष्ण गच्छति॥ कच्चिन्नोभयविभ्रष्टश्छिन्नाभ्रमिव नश्यति। अप्रतिष्ठो महाबाहो विमूढो ब्रह्मणः पथि॥ एतन्मे संशयं कृष्ण छेत्तुमर्हस्यशेषतः। त्वदन्यः संशयस्यास्य छेत्ता न ह्युपपद्यते॥

Krishna’s answer · BG 6.40-45

पार्थ नैवेह नामुत्र विनाशस्तस्य विद्यते। नहि कल्याणकृत्कश्िचद्दुर्गतिं तात गच्छति॥ प्राप्य पुण्यकृतां लोकानुषित्वा शाश्वतीः समाः। शुचीनां श्रीमतां गेहे योगभ्रष्टोऽभिजायते॥ अथवा योगिनामेव कुले भवति धीमताम्। एतद्धि दुर्लभतरं लोके जन्म यदीदृशम्॥ तत्र तं बुद्धिसंयोगं लभते पौर्वदेहिकम्। यतते च ततो भूयः संसिद्धौ कुरुनन्दन॥ पूर्वाभ्यासेन तेनैव ह्रियते ह्यवशोऽपि सः। जिज्ञासुरपि योगस्य शब्दब्रह्मातिवर्तते॥ प्रयत्नाद्यतमानस्तु योगी संशुद्धकिल्बिषः। अनेकजन्मसंसिद्धस्ततो याति परां गतिम्॥

Arjuna asks what becomes of one who has faith but whose mind has moved away from yoga before attaining its perfection (BG 6.37-39).
Krishna first answers that such a doer of good is destroyed neither here nor hereafter and does not come to a bad end (BG 6.40).
The following verses speak of worlds of the meritorious, births in pure/prosperous or wise-yogin households, reconnection with former understanding and practice, renewed striving, and culmination across many births (BG 6.41-45).

Translation boundary: Terms such as yoga-bhraṣṭa, śucīnām, śrīmatām, paurva-dehikam, and parāṁ gatim must remain available for word-level and named-commentary study. One concise English rendering must not be presented as the only interpretive tradition.

Personal-assignment boundary: Vidhyamitra does not infer that a living reader is a yoga-bhraṣṭa, prove a former birth, identify a former family or practice, measure carried saṁskāras, or predict rebirth from a horoscope. BG 6.37-45 is preserved as Krishna’s teaching, not converted into a natal classifier.

BG 6.47 · The bhakta-yogī culmination

योगिनामपि सर्वेषां मद्गतेनान्तरात्मना। श्रद्धावान्भजते यो मां स मे युक्ततमो मतः॥

Among all yogins, the one who, with inner self gone to Me, worships Me with faith is considered by Me the most deeply united.

Truth boundary: The verse states Krishna’s teaching about the yogin who worships Him with faith. Vidhyamitra does not score whether a named reader has attained this condition or is dearer, higher, saved, liberated, or spiritually superior.

Chapter-wide truth boundary: BG 6 remains a teaching and practice sequence. Birth data and planetary placements do not measure yogārūḍha status, meditation aptitude, abhyāsa, vairāgya, sama-darśana, past lives, carried saṁskāras, divine favour, or spiritual worth.

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All 47 Ślokas · Adhyāya 6

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