Bhagavad Gita Chapter 6 - Dhyana Yoga - Sloka 33

The entire content of this mail is from Swami Chidbhavananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission.

The Restive Mind has to be Resisted 33-36

1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 6 - Dhyana Yoga - Sloka 33

A doubt now rose in Arjuna's mind

Arjuna Uvacha

Yah yam yogah tvaya proktah samyena madhusudana I

Etasya aham na pashyami chanchala tvat sthitim sthiram II sloka 33

यः यं योगः त्वया प्रोक्तः समयेन मधुसूदन ।

एतस्य अहं न पश्यामि चञ्चल त्वत स्थितिं स्थिरं ।। श्लोक  ३३

Arjuna said

This yoga of equanimity, taught by you, O Madhusudana, I do not see any stability for it, because of restlessness.

Because of the dispersed and restless nature of mind, its being collected in equanimity is not possible. The wavy ocean of the mind cannot be made waveless; this is the objection raised.