Gita Bhashya -Sankara 262

Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya

(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)

CHAPTER -6

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Tarn vidyād-duhkha-samyoga-viyogain yogasamjñitam
Sa niścayena yaktavyo yogo(a)nirvinna-cetasā

23. let that, the severance from the contact of pain, be known as called by the name of Yoga. This Yoga should be practised with conviction and un­ depressed heart.

let that, the severance from the contact of pain, be known, understood, as called by the name of Yoga, which is an inverted description (viparlta-laksana).

Having thus concluded the subject of the fruit of Yoga, the Lord once again speaks in another way of the necessity for practising Yoga, for the purpose of enjoining conviction and self-reliance as the means to Yoga.

This Yoga, which produces the fruits stated above, should be practised with conviction, firm belief,[1] and undepressed heart.

Moreover,

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References and Context

  1. That the stated fruit of Yoga will accrue in this life or in the next (A).