The Yoga of Self-Subdual

Ātma-saṁyama-yoga

Lift the self by the Self, still the mind like a lamp in a windless place, and in that stillness find the One who is never lost to you. — The Delight of Krishna

The soul enters in

brahmanirvāṇa — the ego extinguished in the Brahman, and the Brahman found all about the soul

and is led towards

śraddhāvān bhajate — the inmost self given to the Divine in love and faith

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Summary of chapter 6

Nirvana and Works In the World - This chapter is a full development of the idea of the closing verses of the fifth, that shows the importance which the Gita attaches to them.

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Śrī Bhagavān uvācaश्रीभगवानुवाच

6·40, a key verseपार्थ नैवेह नामुत्र विनाशस्तस्य विद्यते । न हि कल्याणकृत्कश्चिद् दुर्गतिं तात गच्छति ॥ ४० ॥pārtha naiveha nāmutra vināśastasya vidyate, na hi kalyāṇakṛtkaścid durgatiṁ tāta gacchati.O son of Pritha, neither in this life nor hereafter is there destruction for him…
6·41प्राप्य पुण्यकृतां लोकानुषित्वा शाश्वतीः समाः । शुचीनां श्रीमतां गेहे योगभ्रष्टोऽभिजायते ॥ ४१ ॥prāpya puṇyakṛtāṁ lokānuṣitvā śāśvatīḥ samāḥ, śucīnāṁ śrīmatāṁ gehe yogabhraṣṭo’bhijāyate.Having attained to the worlds of the righteous and having dwelt there for immemorial years, he who fell from…
6·42अथवा योगिनामेव कुले भवति धीमताम् । एतद्धि दुर्लभतरं लोके जन्म यदीदृशम् ॥ ४२ ॥athavā yogināmeva kule bhavati dhīmatām, etaddhi durlabhataraṁ loke janma yadīdṛśam.Or he may be born in the family of the wise Yogins; indeed such a birth is rare to obtain in this world.
6·43तत्र तं बुद्धिसंयोगं लभते पौर्वदेहिकम् । यतते च ततो भूयः संसिद्धौ कुरुनन्दन ॥ ४३ ॥tatra taṁ buddhisaṁyogaṁ labhate paurvadehikam, yatate ca tato bhūyaḥ saṁsiddhau kurunandana.There he recovers the mental state of union (with the Divine) which he had formed in his previous life…
6·44पूर्वाभ्यासेन तेनैव ह्रियते ह्यवशोऽपि सः । जिज्ञासुरपि योगस्य शब्दब्रह्मातिवर्तते ॥ ४४ ॥pūrvābhyāsena tenaiva hriyate hyavaśo’pi saḥ, jijñāsurapi yogasya śabdabrahmātivartate.By that former practice he is irresistibly carried on. Even the seeker after the knowledge of Yoga goes beyond…
6·45प्रयत्नाद्यतमानस्तु योगी संशुद्धकिल्बिषः । अनेकजन्मसंसिद्धस्ततो याति परां गतिम् ॥ ४५ ॥prayatnādyatamānastu yogī saṁśuddhakilbiṣaḥ, anekajanmasaṁsiddhastato yāti parāṁ gatim.But the Yogin, endeavouring with assiduity, purified from sin, perfecting himself through many lives attains…
6·46तपस्विभ्योऽधिको योगी ज्ञानिभ्योऽपि मतोऽधिकः । कर्मिभ्यश्चाधिको योगी तस्माद्योगी भवार्जुन ॥ ४६ ॥tapasvibhyo’dhiko yogī jñānibhyo’pi mato’dhikaḥ, karmibhyaścādhiko yogī tasmādyogī bhavārjuna.The Yogin is greater than the doers of askesis, greater than the men of knowledge, greater than the men of…
6·47, a key verseयोगिनामपि सर्वेषां मद्गतेनान्तरात्मना । श्रद्धावान्भजते यो मां स मे युक्ततमो मतः ॥ ४७ ॥yogināmapi sarveṣāṁ madgatenāntarātmanā, śraddhāvānbhajate yo māṁ sa me yuktatamo mataḥ.Of all Yogins he who with all his inner self given up to me, for me has love and faith, him I hold to be the…

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End of the chapter

ॐ तत्सदिति श्रीमद्भगवद्गीतासूपनिषत्सुब्रह्मविद्यायां योगशास्त्रे श्रीकृष्णार्जुनसंवादेआत्मसंयमयोगो नाम षष्ठोऽध्यायः ॥ ६॥

om tatsaditi śrīmadbhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsubrahmavidyāyāṁ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṁvādeātmasaṁyamayogo nāma ṣaṣṭho’dhyāyaḥ

Thus, in the Upanishad sung by the Lord, the science of Brahman, the scripture of Yoga, the dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjuna, ends the sixth chapter entitled “The Yoga of Self-control”

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