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| <div id="BG63_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="225" link="BG 6.3" link_text="BG 6.3"> | | <div id="BG63_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="225" link="BG 6.3" link_text="BG 6.3"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 6.3|BG 6.3, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">For one who is a neophyte in the eightfold yoga system, work is said to be the means; and for one who is already elevated in yoga, cessation of all material activities is said to be the means.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 6.3 (1972)|BG 6.3, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">For one who is a neophyte in the eightfold yoga system, work is said to be the means; and for one who is already elevated in yoga, cessation of all material activities is said to be the means.</p> |
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| <div class="purport text"><p>The process of linking oneself with the Supreme is called yoga. It may be compared to a ladder for attaining the topmost spiritual realization. This ladder begins from the lowest material condition of the living entity and rises up to perfect self-realization in pure spiritual life. According to various elevations, different parts of the ladder are known by different names. But all in all, the complete ladder is called yoga and may be divided into three parts, namely jñāna-yoga, dhyāna-yoga and bhakti-yoga. The beginning of the ladder is called the yogārurukṣu stage, and the highest rung is called yogārūḍha.</p> | | <div class="purport text"><p>The process of linking oneself with the Supreme is called yoga. It may be compared to a ladder for attaining the topmost spiritual realization. This ladder begins from the lowest material condition of the living entity and rises up to perfect self-realization in pure spiritual life. According to various elevations, different parts of the ladder are known by different names. But all in all, the complete ladder is called yoga and may be divided into three parts, namely jñāna-yoga, dhyāna-yoga and bhakti-yoga. The beginning of the ladder is called the yogārurukṣu stage, and the highest rung is called yogārūḍha.</p> |
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| :indriyārthān vimūḍhātmā | | :indriyārthān vimūḍhātmā |
| :mithyācāraḥ sa ucyate | | :mithyācāraḥ sa ucyate |
| <p>"One who restrains the senses and organs of action, but whose mind dwells on sense objects, certainly deludes himself and is called a pretender." ([[Vanisource:BG 3.6|BG 3.6]]) One should act for Kṛṣṇa very seriously in order to become fully Kṛṣṇa conscious and should not sit down to imitate such great personalities as Haridāsa Ṭhākura. Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura condemned such imitation.</p> | | <p>"One who restrains the senses and organs of action, but whose mind dwells on sense objects, certainly deludes himself and is called a pretender." ([[Vanisource:BG 3.6 (1972)|BG 3.6]]) One should act for Kṛṣṇa very seriously in order to become fully Kṛṣṇa conscious and should not sit down to imitate such great personalities as Haridāsa Ṭhākura. Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura condemned such imitation.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonBG614NewYorkSeptember21966_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="209" link="Lecture on BG 6.1-4 -- New York, September 2, 1966" link_text="Lecture on BG 6.1-4 -- New York, September 2, 1966"> | | <div id="LectureonBG614NewYorkSeptember21966_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="209" link="Lecture on BG 6.1-4 -- New York, September 2, 1966" link_text="Lecture on BG 6.1-4 -- New York, September 2, 1966"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 6.1-4 -- New York, September 2, 1966|Lecture on BG 6.1-4 -- New York, September 2, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So similarly, yaṁ sannyāsam iti prāhur yogaṁ taṁ viddhi pāṇḍava ([[Vanisource:BG 6.2|BG 6.2]]). "Oh Arjuna." Pāṇḍava means "the son of Pāṇḍu, Arjuna." "You can understand that what is sannyāsa and what is yoga, they are the same principle." They are the same principle how? Na hy asannyasta-saṅkalpo yogī bhavati kaścana. Because without being freed from desires of sense gratification, nobody can become either a yogi or a sannyāsī. Everyone is trying to have some profit out of his activities. There are many yogis, they perform yoga system or teach yoga system for some profit, but that is not the idea of yoga system. Everything should be engaged in the service of the Lord. Everything. Whatever we do, either as ordinary worker or as sannyāsī or as yogi, or as jñānī, all our energies should be dovetailed with Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is real sannyāsa, that is real yoga. Ārurukṣor muner yogaṁ karma kāraṇam ucyate. Those who are just stepping on the staircase of the yoga system, for them, karma kāraṇam ucyate, they must work. In the beginning, nobody should stop working. Nobody should stop working.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 6.1-4 -- New York, September 2, 1966|Lecture on BG 6.1-4 -- New York, September 2, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So similarly, yaṁ sannyāsam iti prāhur yogaṁ taṁ viddhi pāṇḍava ([[Vanisource:BG 6.2 (1972)|BG 6.2]]). "Oh Arjuna." Pāṇḍava means "the son of Pāṇḍu, Arjuna." "You can understand that what is sannyāsa and what is yoga, they are the same principle." They are the same principle how? Na hy asannyasta-saṅkalpo yogī bhavati kaścana. Because without being freed from desires of sense gratification, nobody can become either a yogi or a sannyāsī. Everyone is trying to have some profit out of his activities. There are many yogis, they perform yoga system or teach yoga system for some profit, but that is not the idea of yoga system. Everything should be engaged in the service of the Lord. Everything. Whatever we do, either as ordinary worker or as sannyāsī or as yogi, or as jñānī, all our energies should be dovetailed with Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is real sannyāsa, that is real yoga. Ārurukṣor muner yogaṁ karma kāraṇam ucyate. Those who are just stepping on the staircase of the yoga system, for them, karma kāraṇam ucyate, they must work. In the beginning, nobody should stop working. Nobody should stop working.</p> |
| <p>Just like you'll find in the Bhagavad-gītā that Kṛṣṇa requesting Arjuna to become a yogi, but He never asked him to cease from the fight. How one can become a yogi, at the same time remain a fighter? That, a practical example you see. Kṛṣṇa is asking Arjuna, tasmād yogī bhavārjuna. "My dear Arjuna, therefore you become a yogi." But at the same time, He's asking to fight. Now, we know the yogi sits down at a place and meditates and concentrates his mind and controls his senses. How is that he is fighting, at the same time yogi? Huh? This is the mystery of Bhagavad-gītā. You can remain a fighting man, at the same time the highest yogi, highest sannyāsī. How? In Kṛṣṇa consciousness. You have to fight for Kṛṣṇa. That's all. That is the secret. That is the secret. If you fight for Kṛṣṇa, if you fight for work...work for Kṛṣṇa, if you eat for Kṛṣṇa, if you sleep for Kṛṣṇa, if you do everything for Kṛṣṇa, then you are the yogi, you are the sannyāsī, and you are everything. That is the secret of Bhagavad-gītā.</p> | | <p>Just like you'll find in the Bhagavad-gītā that Kṛṣṇa requesting Arjuna to become a yogi, but He never asked him to cease from the fight. How one can become a yogi, at the same time remain a fighter? That, a practical example you see. Kṛṣṇa is asking Arjuna, tasmād yogī bhavārjuna. "My dear Arjuna, therefore you become a yogi." But at the same time, He's asking to fight. Now, we know the yogi sits down at a place and meditates and concentrates his mind and controls his senses. How is that he is fighting, at the same time yogi? Huh? This is the mystery of Bhagavad-gītā. You can remain a fighting man, at the same time the highest yogi, highest sannyāsī. How? In Kṛṣṇa consciousness. You have to fight for Kṛṣṇa. That's all. That is the secret. That is the secret. If you fight for Kṛṣṇa, if you fight for work...work for Kṛṣṇa, if you eat for Kṛṣṇa, if you sleep for Kṛṣṇa, if you do everything for Kṛṣṇa, then you are the yogi, you are the sannyāsī, and you are everything. That is the secret of Bhagavad-gītā.</p> |
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| :yogārūḍhasya tasyaiva | | :yogārūḍhasya tasyaiva |
| :śamaḥ kāraṇam ucyate | | :śamaḥ kāraṇam ucyate |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 6.3|BG 6.3]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 6.3 (1972)|BG 6.3]]) |
| <p>And when one is advanced in perfect stage of that Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then he may not physically work, but because within himself he's always working for Kṛṣṇa... Karma kāraṇam ucyate. So in the beginning... Just like small boys and children, they are always twenty-four hours engaged in the schooling. Otherwise they'll be spoiled. Similarly, those who are in the preliminary stage of Kṛṣṇa consciousness they should always engage themselves in the work. There are varieties of work. There are varieties of work.</p> | | <p>And when one is advanced in perfect stage of that Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then he may not physically work, but because within himself he's always working for Kṛṣṇa... Karma kāraṇam ucyate. So in the beginning... Just like small boys and children, they are always twenty-four hours engaged in the schooling. Otherwise they'll be spoiled. Similarly, those who are in the preliminary stage of Kṛṣṇa consciousness they should always engage themselves in the work. There are varieties of work. There are varieties of work.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonBG625LosAngelesFebruary141969_2" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="210" link="Lecture on BG 6.2-5 -- Los Angeles, February 14, 1969" link_text="Lecture on BG 6.2-5 -- Los Angeles, February 14, 1969"> | | <div id="LectureonBG625LosAngelesFebruary141969_2" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="210" link="Lecture on BG 6.2-5 -- Los Angeles, February 14, 1969" link_text="Lecture on BG 6.2-5 -- Los Angeles, February 14, 1969"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 6.2-5 -- Los Angeles, February 14, 1969|Lecture on BG 6.2-5 -- Los Angeles, February 14, 1969]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotee: Verse number three. "For one who is a neophyte in the eightfold yoga system, work is said to be the means. And for one who has already attained to yoga, cessation of all material activities is said to be the means ([[Vanisource:BG 6.3|BG 6.3]])."</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 6.2-5 -- Los Angeles, February 14, 1969|Lecture on BG 6.2-5 -- Los Angeles, February 14, 1969]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotee: Verse number three. "For one who is a neophyte in the eightfold yoga system, work is said to be the means. And for one who has already attained to yoga, cessation of all material activities is said to be the means ([[Vanisource:BG 6.3 (1972)|BG 6.3]])."</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. There are two stages. One who is practicing yoga to reach to the perfectional platform and one who has attained the perfectional platform. So, so long one is not on the perfectional platform, just trying to do, at that time there are so many works. That āsana system, yama, niyama. So generally in your country there are so many yoga societies. They display this āsana system. How to sit down, different postures. That helps. But that is the process simply to get onto the real platform. They are simply means. Real yoga system perfection is different from those bodily gymnastic process. There are two stages. One stage is trying to reach the perfectional platform, and another stage is one who has reached the perfectional platform. Go on.</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. There are two stages. One who is practicing yoga to reach to the perfectional platform and one who has attained the perfectional platform. So, so long one is not on the perfectional platform, just trying to do, at that time there are so many works. That āsana system, yama, niyama. So generally in your country there are so many yoga societies. They display this āsana system. How to sit down, different postures. That helps. But that is the process simply to get onto the real platform. They are simply means. Real yoga system perfection is different from those bodily gymnastic process. There are two stages. One stage is trying to reach the perfectional platform, and another stage is one who has reached the perfectional platform. Go on.</p> |
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