A Study of the Bhagavadgita : 49 - Swami Krishnananda.
===================================================================================== Wednesday 11, September 2024, 06:50. A Study of the Bhagavadgita: Chapter 8: The Stages of Yoga-7. Swami Krishnananda Post-49. ===================================================================================== The process of this practice of Yoga is again briefly described in the Fifth Chapter, which is the cue, as it were, to the further exposition in the Sixth Chapter. Sparsan krtva bahir bahyams cakshus caivantare bhruvoh, pranapanau samau krtva nasabhyantaracarinau (Gita 5.27); yatendriyamanobuddhirmunir mokshaparayayah, vigatecchabhayakrodho yah sada mukta eva sah (Gita 5.28). Two slogas will tell you briefly what Yoga is. First of all, you have to shut out all the entry of external consciousness into your meditational mood. This is done by what is called pratyahara technique. The contacts of the senses with externality have to gradually be diminished in their intensity,...