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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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One who is in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he gets the opportunity of the highest yoga system, but he hasn't got to take the trouble of the process. That is the beauty of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Here the whole thing is coming down, the Lord says mac-cittaḥ. The mind should be engaged in Viṣṇu. The yogī, the real yogī, who goes to the forest, to the secluded place, he thinks of the catur-bhuja Viṣṇu. That will be explained here; manaḥ saṁyamya mac-citto, yukta āsīta mat-paraḥ (BG 6.14). Yuñjann evaṁ sadātmānaṁ, yogī niyata-mānasaḥ (BG 6.15).
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Here it is said that in order to keep yourself alive, you have to always see the upper portion of your nose. Samprekṣya nāsikāgraṁ svaṁ diśaś cānavalokayan. And you cannot see that who is coming there, "Oh, who is here? Some tiger is coming or something is coming?" No. No fear. Because you are put in a Himalaya, in a secluded place, and a sanctified place. So you haven't got to, any for any other reason, you haven't got to, I mean, to move your neck.

That is not possible in the society. You must have to go in a secluded place. There are so many disturbance. At once disturbance is there and I have to look, "Who is there?" This is the position here. But here it is said that you cannot move your head. You have to sit down straight, that your neck and skull and body should be in one straight line, and you have to see the upper portion of your nose always. That is the system. Praśāntātmā vigata-bhīr, brahmacāri-vrate sthitaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 6.13-14 (1972)|BG 6.14]]).

Then one should be undisturbed in mind. A man who is always disturbed in mind, he cannot perform yoga. That is not possible. And vigata-bhīḥ. Bhīḥ means fearfulness. One who has no fear. If he has got fear, then how he can go out of home in the jungle? That is not possible. That is another qualification for executing yoga. Not only for yoga; any person who is trying to elevate himself with the spiritual line, he has to become fearless. Vigata-bhīḥ.

And brahmacāri-vrate sthitaḥ. Brahmacāri-vrata means celibacy, no sex life at all. Completely prohibited. Brahmacārī. Brahmacāri-vrate. Vrata means with a vow that "I'll have no sex life." With a vow. Such person can execute yoga system. Praśāntātmā vigata-bhīr brahmacāri-vrate sthitaḥ, manaḥ saṁyamya. When the ātmā is . . . there is no demand. When you have no demand, then your mind is naturally becomes controlled.

Manaḥ saṁyamya mac-cittaḥ. Now, doing all these things, the next item is mac-cittaḥ. Kṛṣṇa says mat, to transfer the whole thinking to Kṛṣṇa or Viṣṇu. Not vacant. Mac-cittaḥ. So if that is the system of yoga, mac-cittaḥ, yukta āsīta mat-paraḥ. Mac-cittaḥ and yukta āsīta mat-paraḥ: "Always thinking of Me, or Viṣṇu. Always thinking of Me."

So now, that one who is in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he gets the opportunity of the highest yoga system, but he hasn't got to take the trouble of the process. That is the beauty of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Here the whole thing is coming down, the Lord says mac-cittaḥ. The mind should be engaged in Viṣṇu. The yogī, the real yogī, who goes to the forest, to the secluded place, he thinks of the catur-bhuja Viṣṇu. That will be explained here; manaḥ saṁyamya mac-citto, yukta āsīta mat-paraḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 6.13-14 (1972)|BG 6.14]]). Yuñjann evaṁ sadātmānaṁ, yogī niyata-mānasaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 6.15 (1972)|BG 6.15]]).

Yuñjann evam. By prosecuting the process of yoga in such a way—the sitting place, the, I mean to say, bodily requisition, brahmacārī, celibacy, secluded place, and sitting straight, and looking on the upper . . . uppermost part of the nose, these are the sitting process, and mind should be concentrated on Viṣṇu—this is the meditation process.

Evaṁ sadātmānaṁ yogī niyata-mānasaḥ. Niyata-mānasaḥ means "one who has thus controlled his mind." The whole process is, yogic process is, simply to control the mind. Yoga indriya-saṁyamya. Not only mind, but all the senses, all the senses, they should be under control. And controlling the senses, the mind should be engaged in Viṣṇu within. Viṣṇu we have got, Paramātmā, the Supersoul, Viṣṇu, and we have to concentrate in that way. Then śāntiṁ nirvāṇa-paramām mat-saṁsthām adhigacchati. Then he becomes peaceful after extinguishing this material life.

The material life is just like fire. It has been compared with the forest fire. As the forest fire automatically takes place—nobody goes to set fire—similarly, in this material world, even if you try to live very peacefully and without quarreling with any other man, the place is such nuisance that you'll not be able to live in peace anywhere, anywhere within this universe. That is the process.

But one who is transcendentally situated, either by the yogic process or by the process of empiric knowledge or by bhakti-yoga, either of these processes . . . there may be a little difference at the ultimate end, but all these three processes, they are meant for transcendental life. So any process, if you make it perfect, then really you get peace. Peace. The only difference is that this yogic process as described in the Bhagavad-gītā, it is not possible to be executed in this age.

Therefore the next alternative is this hari-kīrtana, as Lord Caitanya recommends and devises. And you can practically see that kīrtana, this kīrtana, you can go on for hours together; you'll feel not tired. But if you are asked to sit down in the posture as recommended in the Bhagavad-gītā for executing yoga system, oh, hardly you can spare some minutes. You see.
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