Category: Miscellaneous

Meaning: For one who has conquered the mind , the Supersoul is already reached, for he has attained tranquillity. To such a man happiness and distress, heat and cold , honor and dishonor are all the same.

Meaning: For him who has conquered the mind, the mind is the  best friends; but for one who has failed to do so, his mind will remain the greatest enemy.

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One who cannot control his mind lives always with the greatest  enemy, and thus his life and its mission are spoiled

Bhagavad Gita: For him who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends (Dhyana-yoga (Text 06, Ch 6))

Meaning: One must deliver himself with the help of his mind, and not degrade himself. The mind is the friend of the conditioned soul, and his enemy as well.

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For man, mind is the cause of bondage and mind is the cause of liberation. Mind absorbed in sense objects is the cause of bondage, and mind detached  from the sense objects is the cause of liberation.

Bhagavad Gita: Mind always engaged in divine consciousness  is the cause of supreme liberation. (Dhyana-yoga (Text 05, Ch 6))

Meaning: A person is said to be elevated in yoga when, having renounced all material  desires, he neither  acts for sense gratification nor engages in fruitive activities.

Bhagavad Gita: A person is said to be elevated in yoga (Dhyana-yoga (Text 04, Ch 6))

Meaning: For one who is  a neophyte in the eightfold yoga system, work is said to be the means; and for one who is already  elevated in yoga, cessation of all material  activities is said to be the means.

Bhagavad Gita: Work is said to be the means (Dhyana-yoga (Text 03, Ch 6)

Meaning: What is called renunciation you should know to be the same as yoga, or linking oneself with the Supreme, O son of Pandu, for one can never become a yogi unless he renounces the desire for sense gratification.

Bhagavad Gita: Never become a yogi unless renounces the desire for sense gratification (Dhyana-yoga (Text 02, Ch 6)


*** Real sannyasa-yoga or bhakti means that one should know his constitutional position as the living entity, and act accordingly. The living entity has no separate independent identity. He is the marginal energy of the Supreme. When he is entrapped by material energy, he is conditioned, and when he is Krsna(divine) conscious or aware of the spiritual energy, then he is in his real and natural  state of life.

Meaning: The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: One who is unattached to the fruits of his work and who works as he is obligated is in the renounced order of life, and he is the true mystic, not he who lights no fire and performs no duty.

Bhagavad Gita: True mystic (Dhyana-yoga (Text 01, Ch 6)

Bhagavad Gita: Assured  liberation in the Supreme (Karma-yoga-Action in Krsna (divine) Consciousness (Text 26, Ch 5)