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Chapter 6
- Methods to Renounce, All Thoughts of the World
- God has bestowed this human birth, the last of all births upon us, by His grace for our salvation. So, we have not to waste this valuable time of human life, in futile thought of the world. By thinking so, the pursuit of mind, can be renounced.
- A striver, following the Discipline of Action, has to discharge his duty, without attachment (Gita 3/19) at present, while the thoughts that come to his mind, are either of the past or the future. So a striver, should not be entangled in them.
- A striver, following the Discipline of Devotion, should think that God is existent here and now, He is his and is in him, while the thoughts that come to the mind, are either of the past or the future. So, it is a blunder to think of the pursuits, which do not exist now, but not to think of God, Who has His existence now. By thinking so, a striver should renounce all thoughts of the world.
Yogarudhastadocyate:—Equanimity, in success and failure, is called Yoga (Glta 2/48). Attainment of equanimity is attainment of Yoga. Equanimity leads to God-realization. In the second verse of this chapter, Lord Krsna declared, that none becomes a Yogi without renouncing the thoughts of the world, and here, He has declared that by renouncing all thoughts of the world, a man is said to have attained Yoga. It proves, that all the Disciplines as that of Knowledge, or that of Action, lead to attainment of Yoga (Gita 5/5) as both disciplines culminate in the renunciation of all thoughts of the world.
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