Realize the self

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is

BG Chapters 1 - 6

There are two classes of men who try to realize the self.

BG 3.3, Translation: The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O sinless Arjuna, I have already explained that there are two classes of men who try to realize the self. Some are inclined to understand it by empirical, philosophical speculation, and others by devotional service.

BG Chapters 13 - 18

Only those who are actually in the yoga system and have realized the self, the world, and the Supreme Lordcan understand how things are taking place.

BG 15.11, Purport: Even though they are endeavoring in a so-called yoga system, they are not self-realized. Such people cannot understand the process of the transmigration of the soul. Only those who are actually in the yoga system and have realized the self, the world, and the Supreme Lord—in other words, the bhakti-yogīs, those engaged in pure devotional service in Kṛṣṇa consciousness—can understand how things are taking place.