Bhagavad Gita Chapter 6 - Dhyana Yoga - Sloka 45

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

The Fate of the Imperfect Yogi 37-45

1 Gita Sloka  every day - Chapter 6 - Dhyana Yoga - Sloka 45

Prayatnat yat manah tu yogi samshuddhat kibishah I
Aneka janma samsiddhatah  tatah yati param gatim II sloka ४५

प्रयत्नात  यत् मानः तु योगी संशुद्धत किल्बिषः  ।
अनेक जन्म संसिद्धतः ततः याति परां गतिं ।। श्लोक ४५

The yogi who strives with assiduity, purified from sins and perfected through many births reaches then the supreme goal. 

Learning and wealth cannot be acquired in a day or two. One has to apply oneself to them constantly. But one is held to be learned in a measure even while in the process of studying. Similarly, one is also held as a man of means even while yet earning money. A man is likewise beheld as a yogi even when he is assiduously practising it. Learning  wealth and spirituality developed by these several individuals never go waste. Spirituality in particular persists and progresses in the yogi through successive births. As he gets purified  from sins he ceases to be affected by the inevitable fluctuations in the earthly life. Constancy of the ideal in the midst of all eventualities in his characteristic. His serenity steadily evolves into beautitude which is the supreme goal. Whereas the man given to the vedic rites oscillates and merely speculates about his future prospects here and hereafter. 

The new born calf totters and tumbles down several times before learning to frisk about. Similarly teh sadhaka has to struggle much before he meets with success

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Yoga being hard to achieve, what is the harm in the ordinary man having recourse to any other ways of accomplishing the desired ends? the sovereignity of yoga is extolled in the next sloka.