The document summarizes chapter 6 of the Bhagavad Gita. It discusses yoga and self-control. Key points include: - One who acts without attachment to rewards is a true renunciant and yogi. - One must control the mind and senses, as the self can be either a friend or enemy. - A yogi who is peaceful and content finds union with Brahman and eternal bliss. - A supreme yogi sees their own self in all beings and all beings in the self.

1. Gems
of
Bhagavad Gita
T. K. G. NAMBOODHIRI
THIRUVALLA, KERALA
INDIA

2. BHAGAVAD GITA – THE DIVINE
SONG-An Introduction
 Bhagavad Gita-Part of the
Sanskrit Epic
Mahabhaaratha.(200 BC to 200
AD)
 700 verses in 18 chapters.
 A conversation between Lord
Krishna and his close friend
Arjuna in the middle of the
battlefield just before the start
of the Kurukshetra battle.
 Arjuna loses his heart and
refuses to fight his teachers
and relatives, and Krishna
revives him by his wise words
of wisdom.
TKG Namboodhiri

3. Gems
of
Bhagavad Gita
CHAPTER 6
ATHMASAMYAMA YOGA
THE YOGA OF SELF-CONTROL
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4. Gems
of
Bhagavad Gita
ANAASRITHAH KARMAPHALAM KAARYAM KARMA
KAROTHI YAH, SA SANYAASI CHA YOGI CHA NA
NIRAGNIRNNA CHAAKRIYAH. (6.1)
One who does the work that has to be done,
without dependence on the fruits of action, is
the real Samnyaasi and Yogi & not the one
who merely stops doing all his daily rituals &
the required work
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5. Gems
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Bhagavad Gita
UDHARE’D ATMAN ATMAANAM NA ATMAANAM
AVASAADAYE’D, ATMAIVA HYAATMANO
BANDHURAATMAIVA RIPUTAATMANA. (6.5)
Raise yourself with your own efforts. You
should never degrade yourself. Self alone
is one’s friend as well as one’s enemy.
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6. Gems
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Bhagavad Gita
BANDHUR ATMAATMANA STHASYA
YENAATMAIVAATMANAA JITHAH, ANAATMANASTHU
SATHRUTHWE’ VARTHE’TH ATMAIVA SATHRUVATH. (6.6)
When you keep your senses and mind
under control, the soul is your friend. The
same soul becomes your enemy when
your mind & senses are not under control.
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7. Gems
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Bhagavad Gita
JITHAATHMANAH PRASAANTHASYA PARAMAATHMA SAMAAHITHAH,
SEETHOSHNASUKHADUKHE’SHU THATHA MAANAAPAMAANAYOH. (6.7)
JNAANA VIJNAANA THRIPTHAATHMA KOOTASTHO VIJITHE’NDRIYAH
YUKTHA ITHYUCHYATHE’ YOGEE SAMALOSHTAASMAKAANCHANAH. (6.8)
The supreme Self exists as the individual Self for the one who
has subdued the self & is quiescent in cold & heat, pleasure &
pain & in honour & disgrace.
That person is said to be an integrated yogi whose self is
content with knowledge & experience, who has subdued his
senses, who is immutable & to whom a clod of dirt, stone &
gold are all alike.
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8. Gems
of
Bhagavad Gita
YOGEE YUNJEETHA SATHATHAMAATHMAANAM
RAHASI STHITHAH, E’KAAKEE YATHA
CHITHAATHMA NIRAASEERA PARIGRAHAH. (6.10)
Living in solitude, alone, with controlled
mind & self, free from cravings, owning
nothing, the yogi (meditator) ought to
apply himself to yoga incessantly.
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Bhagavad Gita
PRASAANTHAATHMA VIGATHABHEER
BRAHMACHAARI VRITHE’ STHITHAH, MANAH
SAMYAMYA MACHCHITHO YUKTHA AASEETHA MATH
PARAH. (6.14)
With the inner senses tranquilized, fear
gone, established in chastity, controlling
the mind, thoughts anchored in Me, the
integrated yogi should sit, intent on Me.
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Bhagavad Gita
YUNJANNE’VAM SADATHMAANAM YOGI
NIYATHAMAANASAH, SAANTHIM NIRVAANA
PARAMAAM MATHSAMSTHAMADHIGACHCHATHI.
(6.15)
Thus applying himself continuously, with
a disciplined mind, the yogi wins peace,
which is abidance in Me, & eventually
emancipation.
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11. Gems
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Bhagavad Gita
YADA VINIYATHAM CHITHAM AATHMANYE’VA
VATHISHTATHE’, NIHSPRIHAHM SARVA KAAME’BHYO
YUKTHA ITHYUCHATHE’ THADAA. (6.18),
When the self-controlled mind abides
solely in the self, rid of cravings for
objects of desire, one is said to be
integrated in yoga.
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YUJNANNE’VAM SADAATHMAANAM YOGEE
VIGATHAKALMASHAH, SUKHE’NA
BRAHMASAMSPARSAMATHYANTHAM SUKHAM
ASNUTHE’. (6.28)
Integrating himself always, the sin-
less yogi easily achieves contact with
Brahman or infinite bliss
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Bhagavad Gita
SARVA BHOOTHASTHAMAATMAANAM SARVA
BHOOTHAANI CHAATMANI, EEKSHATHE’ YOGA
YUKTHAATMA SARVATHRA SAMADARSATHEH. (6.29)
One, who whose inner senses are attuned
to yoga, looks upon everything as equal
because he beholds the Self in all beings,
and all beings in the Self
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of
Bhagavad Gita
YO MAAM PASYATHI SARVATHRA SARVAM CHA MAYI
PASYATHI, THASYAAHAM NA PRANASYAAMI SA CHA
ME’ NA PRANASYATHI. (6.30)
One, who sees God in everything &
everything existing in God, does not lose
sight of Him, nor does God lose sight of
him/her.
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Bhagavad Gita
SARVA BHOOTHASTHITHAM YO MAAM
BHAJATHYEKATHWAMAASTHITHAH, SARVATHTHA
VARTHAMAANO API SA YOGI MAYI VARTHATHE’.
(6.31)
One, who worships God who resides in all
beings, as his own self, always abides in
God no matter how he/she appears to
live.
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Bhagavad Gita
ATHMAUPAMYE’NA SARVATHRA SAMAM
PASYATHI YO ARJUNA, SUKHAM VA YADI VA
DUKHAM SA YOGI PARAMO MATHAH. (6.32)
Arjuna, he who sees alike pleasure or pain in all
beings, on the analogy of his own self, is deemed
to be the supreme yogi. He realizes that
pleasure/pain etc. are alike for all beings & so he
does not act against anyone, nor injures anyone
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17. Gems
of
Bhagavad Gita
PAARTHA NAÏVE’HA NAAMUTHRA VINAASTHASYA
VIDYATHE’, NAHI KALYAANAKRITH KASCHID
DURGATHIM THAATHA GACHCHATHI. (6.40)
Arjuna, no evil betides the doer of good.
Neither in this world nor in the next, does
he come to ruin
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