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    "title": "Discourse 6: The Yoga of Meditation",
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    "text": "## Discourse 6: The Yoga of Meditation\n\n\nVerse 6:1: The Blessed Lord said: He that performeth such action as is duty, independently \nof the fruit of action, he is an ascetic, he is a Yogi, not he that is without fire, and without \nrites. \n\nVerse 6:2: That which is called renunciation know thou that as yoga, O Pandava; nor doth \nany one be-come a Yogi with the formative will unrenounc-ed. \n\nVerse 6:3: For a Sage who is seeking Yoga, action is call-ed the means; for the same Sage, \nwhen he is enthroned in yoga, serenity is called the means. \n\nVerse 6:4: When a man feeleth no attachment either for the objects of sense or for actions, \nrenouncing the formative will, then, he is said to be enthroned in yoga. \n\nVerse 6:5: Let him raise the self by the SELF and not let the self become depressed; for \nverily is the SELF the friend of the self, and also the SELF the self's enemy; \n\nVerse 6:6: The SELF is the friend of the self of him in whom the self by the SELF is \nvanquished; but to the unsubdued self the SELF verily becometh hostile as an enemy. \n\nVerse 6:7: The higher Self of him who is SELF-controlled and peaceful is uniform in cold \nand heat, pleasure and pain, as well as in honour and dishonour. \n\nVerse 6:8: The Yogi who is satisfied with wisdom and knowledge, unwavering, whose \nsenses are sub-dued, to whom a lump of earth, a stone and gold are the same, is said to be \nharmonised. \n\nVerse 6:9: He who regards impartially lovers, friends, and foes, strangers, neutrals, \nforeigners and relatives, also the righteous and unrighteous, he excelleth. \n\nVerse 6:10: Let the Yogi constantly engage himself in yoga, remaining in a secret place by \nhimself, with thought and self subdued, free from hope and greed. \n\nVerse 6:11: In a pure place, established on a fixed seat of his own, neither very much raised \nnor very low, made of a cloth, a black antelope skin, and kusha grass, one over the other; \nVerse 6:12: There, having made the mind one-pointed, with thought and the functions of the \nsenses subdued, steady on his seat, he should practise yoga for the purification of the self. \nVerse 6:13: Holding the body, head, and neck erect, im-movably steady, looking fixedly at \nthe point of the nose, with unseeing gaze, \n\nVerse 6:14: The self serene, fearless, firm in the vow of the Brahmachari, the mind \ncontrolled, thinking on Me, harmonised, let him sit aspiring after Me. \n\nVerse 6:15: The Yogi ever united thus with the SELF, with the mind controlled, goeth to \nPeace, to the supreme Bliss that abideth in Me. \n\nVerse 6:16: Verily yoga is not for him who eateth too much, nor who abstaineth to excess, \nnor who is too much addicted to sleep, nor even to wakeful-ness, O Arjuna. \n\nVerse 6:17: Yoga killeth out all pain for him who is regulated in eating and amusement, \nregulated in performing actions, regulated in sleeping and waking. \n\nVerse 6:18: When his subdued thought is fixed on the SELF, free from longing after all \ndesirable things, then it is said, \"he is harmonised.\" \n\nVerse 6:19: As a lamp in a windless place flickereth not, to such is likened the Yogi of \nsubdued thought, absorbed in the yoga of the SELF. \n\nVerse 6:20: That in which the mind finds rest, quieted by the practice of yoga: that in which \nhe, seeing the SELF by the SELF, in the SELF is satisfied; \n\nVerse 6:21: That in which he findeth the supreme delight which the Reason can grasp \nbeyond the senses, wherein established he moveth not from the Reality; \n\nVerse 6:22: Which, having obtained, he thinketh there is no greater gain beyond it; wherein, \nestablished, he is not shaken even by heavy sorrow; \n\nVerse 23: That should be known by the name of yoga, this disconnection from the union \nwith pain. This yoga must be clung to with a firm convic-tion and with undesponding mind. \nVerse 6:24: Abandoning without reserve all desires born of the imagination, by the mind \ncurbing in the aggregate of the senses on every side, \n\nVerse 6:25: Little by little let him gain tranquillity, by means of Reason controlled by \nsteadiness; having made the mind abide in the SELF, let him not think of anything. \n\nVerse 6:26: As often as the wavering and unsteady mind goeth forth, so often reining it in, \nlet him bring it under the control of the SELF. \n\nVerse 6:27: Supreme joy is for this Yogi whose mind is peaceful, whose passion-nature is \ncalmed, who is sinless and of the nature of the ETERNAL. \n\nVerse 6:28: The Yogi who thus, ever harmonising the self, hath put away sin, he easily \nenjoyeth the infinite bliss of contact with the ETERNAL. \n\nVerse 6:29: The self, harmonised by yoga, seeth the SELF abiding in all beings, all beings \nin the SELF; everywhere he seeth the same. \n\nVerse 30: He who seeth Me everywhere, and seeth every-thing in Me, of him will I never \nlose hold, and he shall never lose hold of Me. \n\nVerse 6:31: He who, established in unity, worshippeth Me, abiding in all beings, that Yogi \nliveth in Me, whatever his mode of living. \n\nVerse 6:32: He who, through the likeness of the SELF O Arjuna, seeth equality in everthing, \nwhether pleasant or painful, he is considered a perfect Yogi. \n\nVerse 6:33: Arjuna said: This yoga which Thou hast declared to be by equanimity, O \nMadhusudana. I see not a stable foundation for it, owing to restlessness; \n\nVerse 6:34: For the mind is verily, restless, O Krishna; it is impetuous, strong and difficult \nto bend. I deem it as hard to curb as the wind. \n\nVerse 6:35: The Blessed Lord said: Without doubt, O mighty-armed, the mind is hard to \ncurb and restless; but it may be curbed by constant practice and by dispassion. \n\nVerse 6:36: Yoga is hard to attain, methinks, by a self that is uncontrolled; but by the SELF- \ncontrolled it is attainable by properly directed energy. \n\nVerse 6:37: Arjuna said: He who is unsubdued but who possesseth faith, with the mind \nwandering away from yoga, fail-ing to attain perfection in yoga, what path doth he tread, O \nKrishna? \n\nVerse 6:38: Fallen from both, is he destroyed like a rent cloud, unsteadfast, O mighty- \narmed, deluded in the path of the ETERNAL? \n\nVerse 6:39: Deign, O Krishna, to completely dispel this doubt of mine; for there is none to \nbe found save Thyself able to destroy this doubt. \n\nVerse 6:40: The Blessed Lord said: O son of Pritha, neither in this world nor in the life to \ncome is there destruction for him; never doth any who worketh righteousness, O beloved, \ntread the path of woe. \n\nVerse 6:41: Having attained to the worlds of the pure-doing, and having dwelt there for \nimmemorial years, he who fell frona yoga is reborn in a pure and bless-ed house; \n\nVerse 6:42: Or he may even be born into a family of wise Yogis; but such a birth as that is \nmost difficult to obtain in this world. \n\nVerse 6:43: There he recovereth the characteristics belonging to his former body, and with \nthese again laboureth for perfection, O joy of the Kurus! \n\nVerse 6:44: By that former practice he is irresistibly swept away. Only wishing to know \nYoga, even the seeker after Yoga goeth beyond the Brahmic word, \n\nVerse 6:45: But the Yogi, labouring with assiduity, purified from sin, fully perfected through \nmanifold births, he reacheth the supreme goal. \n\nVerse 6:46: The Yogi is greater than the ascetics; he is thought to be greater than even the \nwise; the Yogi is greater than the men of action; therefore become thou a Yogi, O Arjuna! \nVerse 6:47: And among all Yogis, he who full of faith, with the inner SELF abiding in Me, \nadoreth Me, he is considered by Me to be the most completely harmonised.",
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