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Chapter 6
Appendix:—The division of worldly union viz., Samyoga is different from that of Yoga. There is `Samyoga' with that object (or person) or action with which we can't stay forever and which can't stay with us forever. There is `Yoga' with that with whom we can stay forever and who can stay with as forever. Therefore in the world there is 'Samyoga' with one another and with God there is yoga. In fact there is no union with the world and no disunion from God viz., whatever we gain in the world is not permanent hence it is no gain at all and God is never separate from us. The assumption of the union with the world and disunion from God is ignontnce and it is the greatest blunder of a man. Certainly there is disunion from the worldly union but there is no disconnection at all from the union with God.
A man wants union (with worldly things) but he has to face disunion, therefore the world is said to be the abode of sorrows—dahkhalayamasasvatam' (GIta 8/15). A desire leads to the union with pain (sufferings). If a striver is free from desires, there is no union with sufferings and there is union with God.
The union of an embodied being with God is eternal. This axiomatic etental union is called 'Yoga'. This eternal union prevails in all places, all the time, in all actions, in all _ things, in all persons, in all states, in all circumstances and in all incidents. It means that there has neither been, nor is, nor will be nor can be any disunion from this eternal union. But by assuming connection with the unreal (body) the eternal union is not realized. As soon as there is separation (renunciation of connection) from the assumed union with the unreal in the form of pain, the etental union is realized. This is the chief Yoga of the Gita and in order to realize this yoga there is description of Karmayoga, Jnanayoga, Dhyanayoga and Bhaktiyoga etc. But these disciplines (paths) will be called 'Yoga' only when there is total renunciation of affinity with the unreal and there is realization of eternal union with God.
- The Lord has defined Yoga in two ways
- Equanimity is called Yoga—`samatvam yoga ucyate' (Gita 2/48).
- Termination of union with pain in the shape of the worldly transmigration (travails of worldly life)—'tam vidyadduhlthasamyogaviyogam yogasadjnitam' (GIta 6/23).
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