Verse-2
Chapter 6 — Atma Sanyam Yoga
Verse 2
🕉 Original Sanskrit Shloka
yam sannyāsamiti prāhur yogam tam viddhi păņdava
na hyasannyastasańkalpo yogi bhavati kaścana
🕉 English Translation
Arjun jise kehta sannayasa log,
Asal mein samajh usee ko hee yoga
Sankalp chode na jab koyee,
Yogi na ban sakta hai veh kabhi.
📜 Translation
English
O Arjun! what is called renunciation; know it to be yoga;
for no one becomes a yogi who has not renounced mental resolutions.
Chapter-6
Even subtlest of the subtle situations get a meaningful elucidation. The words 'Sannayasa' and 'Yoga' find absolutely different expressions. The state seems to be different while visualising, reading, hearing but it is not so. The Blessed Lord says that what is called renunciation is actually yoga.
Renunciation is in actuality, a state of sacrifice and yoga is also a state of renunciation. Both words are indicative of inner state and not of external action. The one who is devoid of desire, attachment and aversion he is a renouncer. This indication has already been given by the Blessed Lord in the fifth chapter. For abidance in yoga it is necessary to give up these inclinations, because these very inclinations are the hurdles between the embodied being and the Lord. Not just inclinations, even if there is the slightest stir of these inclinations, then yoga cannot be accomplished and it will not be possible to become a yogi.
This fact has in every sense been clarified that the yogi of the Gita is not a man maintaining rigidity in physical feats or giving expressions to external characteristics. It is the purely an inner state. In that too the state is of awareness and alertness-no inner resolutions in any way. What has happened and what will happen-completely free from all these stresses. A simple, calm, thoughtless state of equanimity. For reflecting on oneself and to avoid getting illusion about oneself and others, this verse is a good and clean mirror! By and by, to observe and understand is a beneficial exercise on the spiritual path.
How to achieve this state of yoga? Come and let us see the Gita's inspiration which is logical.