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The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita - 10.6. Swami Krishnananda.

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  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, May 05, 2021. 06:47. PM.  Chapter - 10 : Forms of Sacrifice and Concentration-6. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Therefore, in this connection, the Sixth Chapter, which is known as ā€˜The Yoga of Meditationā€™, tells us that nobody can be a Yogi who has not renounced the personal will or the mood of taking initiative for the satisfaction or the well-being of oneā€™s own lower self. When the senses have no desire for any objects and they have no impulsion whatsoever towards any personalistic action, and one has inwardly renounced all motives of every kind, then it is that one is established in Yoga. Yoga is a step that we take in the direction of establishment in impersonality, whatever be the degree of it. And every personalistic will or desire or action is a rootedness in personality. Impersonality is Yoga, which is attained by the sta...