Ramanuja's Gita Bhashyam - Chapter 2 - sloka 53

The entire content of this mail is from Swami Adidevavananda's translation of Ramanuja's  Gita Bhashya, published by Ramakrishna Mission.

Translations of other slokas of the Gita are available on my blog  http://haricharanam.blogspot.com

The Key to Yoga - 45-53 

1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 2 - Samkhya Yoga - Sloka 53

 

Shruti Viprati pannate yada sthasyati nischala I

Samadhava achala buddhih tada yogam avapsyasi II sloka 53

श्रुति विप्रति पन्नते यदा स्थास्यति निश्चला ।

समाधाव अचला बुद्धिः तदा योगं अवाप्स्यसि ।। श्लोक ५३ 

When your intellect, well enlightened by hearing from me and firmly placed, stands unshaken in a concentrated mind, then you will attain the vision of the self.

Here 'Sruti' means hearing and not the vedas. When your intellect, becomes specially enlightened,by hearing, and  has for its object the eternal, unsurpassed and subtle self, it belongs to a class different from other entities. Such an intellect is firmly fixed, ie., in a single psychosis and stands unshaken. In such a concentrated mind, purified by the performance of duties without attachment, will be generated true yoga. Yoga so generated consists in the vision of the self. 

Therefore, Karma Yoga, which needs the knowledge of the real nature of the self  from the scriptures, leads to a firm devotion to knowledge known as the state of firm wisdom.  The state of firm wisdom, which is in the form of firm devotion to knowledge, generates the vision of the self; this vision  is here called Yoga.