The entire content of this mail is from Swami Chidbhavananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission.
Yoga is unparalleled 46-47
1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 6 - Dhyana Yoga - Sloka 47
श्रद्धावान भजते यः मां सः मे युक्ततमः मन्तः ।। श्लोक 47
The characteristics of the jivatman, the individual soul have so far been expounded in these six chapters. To what extent the jivatman can elevate himself has also been enumerated. There is no purpose superior to the devotion to the Lord, to which a highly evolved soul can apply himself. The following six chapters are devoted to the definition of Iswara and development of Bhakti. This last stanza in this chapter gives the link between the first six chapters and the second six chapters. It is indicated here that the development of one form of yoga into another is as natural and spontaneous as the evolution of a boy into a youth. Karma yoga evolves into Raja yoga and this again evolves into Bhakthi yoga.
Yoga is unparalleled 46-47
1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 6 - Dhyana Yoga - Sloka 47
Who among the yogis is the best one ?
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| Krishna as Damodaran |
Yoginam api sarvesam madgatena antah atmana I
Shraddhavan bhajate yah mam sah me yuktatamah mantah II sloka 47
योगिनाम् अपि सर्वेषां मद्गतेन अन्तः आत्मना ।श्रद्धावान भजते यः मां सः मे युक्ततमः मन्तः ।। श्लोक 47
And of all the yogis, he who worships Me with faith, his innermost self merged in Me, - him I hold to be the most devout.
All those who practise meditation, concentration and purification of the mind are good yogis. A purified mind easily gets at whatever it wants to own. That yogi excels who, instead of turning his powerful mind on the minor deities and mundane things, devotes himself to the worship of the Iswara, the Supreme goal. There is no higher state than this to be attained by man.
Meditate on the Enlightenment and Bliss which are eternal. Then you gain Bliss which is everlasting. This bliss in the ordinary man is shrouded in ignorance. As your desire for sense pleasures decline, your devotion to the Lord develops into divine thirst.
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
The characteristics of the jivatman, the individual soul have so far been expounded in these six chapters. To what extent the jivatman can elevate himself has also been enumerated. There is no purpose superior to the devotion to the Lord, to which a highly evolved soul can apply himself. The following six chapters are devoted to the definition of Iswara and development of Bhakti. This last stanza in this chapter gives the link between the first six chapters and the second six chapters. It is indicated here that the development of one form of yoga into another is as natural and spontaneous as the evolution of a boy into a youth. Karma yoga evolves into Raja yoga and this again evolves into Bhakthi yoga.
Iti shrimad bhagavadgitasu upanishatsu brahma vidyayam yogashastre shrikrishna arjuna samvade dhyana yogo nama shashtodhyayah II
इति श्रीमद भगवद्गीतासु उपनिषत्सु ब्रहम विध्यायां योगशास्त्रे श्रीकृष्ण अर्जुन संवादे ध्यान योगो नाम षष्ठोध्यायः ।।
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