This document summarizes key points from Chapter 6 of the Holy Gita on Yoga of Meditation. It discusses who a yogi is, how to meditate, how to control the mind, and what happens to a yogi. A yogi is someone who is detached from sense objects and actions. To meditate, one must make the mind one-pointed while controlling the actions of the mind and senses. Controlling the mind requires practice and dispassion. A yogi who strives through many births becomes purified from sins and attains the highest goal of infinite bliss and sees the self in all beings.

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The Holy Gita
March, 2015

2. Chapter 6 – Yoga of Meditation
• Who is a Yogi?
• How to meditate?
• How does one control the mind?
• What happens to a Yogi?

3. Chapter 6 – Yoga of Meditation
• Who is a Yogi?
 When a man is not attached to sense-objects or to actions, having renounced
all thoughts, then he is said to have attained YOGA [4]
 Let the YOGI try constantly to keep the mind steady, remaining in solitude,
alone, with the mind and body controlled, free from hope and greed [10]
 "As a lamp placed in a windless place does not flicker" --- is a simile used to
describe the YOGI of controlled-mind, practicing YOGA of the Self (or
absorbed in the YOGA -of-the-Self) [19]

4. Chapter 6 – Yoga of Meditation
• How to meditate?
 Then, having made the mind one-pointed, with the actions of the mind and the
senses controlled, let him, seated on the seat, practice YOGA, for the
purification of the self [12]
 With the mind harmonized by YOGA he sees the Self abiding in all beings,
and all beings in the Self; he sees the same everywhere [30]

5. Chapter 6 – Yoga of Meditation
• How does one control the mind?
 The mind verily is, O Krishna, restless, turbulent, strong and unyielding; I
deem it quite as difficult to control as wind. How does one control such a
mind? [34]
 Undoubtedly, O mighty-armed one, the mind is difficult to control and is
restless; but, by practice, O Son of Kunti, and by dispassion, it is restrained
[35]
 YOGA, I think is hard to be attained by one of uncontrolled self; but the self-
controlled, striving, can obtain it by (proper) means [36]

6. Chapter 6 – Yoga of Meditation
• What happens to a Yogi?
 The YOGI engaging the mind thus (in the practice of YOGA), freed from sins,
easily enjoys the Infinite Bliss of ‘BRAHMAN –contact’ [28]
 The YOGI, who strives with assiduity, purified from sins and perfected
(gradually) through many births, he then attains the highest Goal [45]
 The YOGI is thought to be superior to the ascetics, and even superior to men-
of-knowledge (mere scholars); he is also superior to men-of-action; therefore
(you strive to) be a YOGI, O Arjuna [46]

7. Chapter 6 – Yoga of Meditation
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