Commentary on the Bhagavadgita - 12- 1. Swami Krishnananda.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, August 25, 2021. 7:09. PM. Discourse 12 : THE FIFTH CHAPTER CONTINUES : THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A PERFECTED PERSON : 1. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Yogayukto visuddhatma vijitatma jitendriyah, sarvabhutatmabhutatma kurvann api na lipyate."(5.7). In this verse, the characteristics of a yogi, a perfected person, are described. A person who is united in yoga is a yogayukta. Such a person is also a viśuddhātmā: his lower self has been purified in order to reflect the higher Self in itself. He is also a vijitātmā: a person who is perfectly under control of himself; jitendriya: whose sens...