🕉️ Chapter 6 – The Yoga of Meditation: Shlokas 1–10
Dhyana Yoga begins here — Krishna guides Arjuna (and all seekers) through the sacred inner path. These verses define the foundation of yogic living: discipline, detachment, and the power of self-mastery.
📜 Shloka 1
अनाश्रितः कर्मफलं कार्यं कर्म करोति यः |
स संन्यासी च योगी च न निरग्निर्न चाक्रियः ||1||
English Translation:
One who performs duty without attachment to its results is both a true renunciant and a yogi—not one who simply gives up rituals or external duties.
हिन्दी अनुवाद:
जो व्यक्ति कर्म के फल पर निर्भर नहीं रहते हुए अपने कर्तव्य को करता है, वही सच्चा संन्यासी और योगी है, न कि वह जो अग्नि या कर्म का परित्याग करता है।
🔍 Deep Reflection:
Renunciation isn’t about quitting action. It’s about doing your work without craving rewards. A yogi is not someone who escapes life—but who rises above ego in action.
🪔 Modern Insight:
Don’t quit your job to be "spiritual." Do your job without inner noise—*that* is yoga in motion.
📜 Shloka 2
यं संन्यासमिति प्राहुर्योगं तं विद्धि पाण्डव |
न ह्यसंन्यस्तसङ्कल्पो योगी भवति कश्चन ||2||
English Translation:
What is called renunciation is truly yoga, O Arjuna. One cannot become a yogi without giving up desires and mental projections.
हिन्दी अनुवाद:
जिसे संन्यास कहते हैं, वही वास्तव में योग है। संकल्पों का त्याग किए बिना कोई योगी नहीं बन सकता।
🔍 Deep Reflection:
Letting go of mental obsessions is the real yoga—not just outer rituals. Thought detachment > physical detachment.
🪔 Modern Insight:
Give up overthinking, not responsibilities. Surrender isn’t weakness—it’s clarity.
📜 Shloka 3
आरुरुक्षोर्मुनेर्योगं कर्म कारणमुच्यते |
योगारूढस्य तस्यैव शमः कारणमुच्यते ||3||
English Translation:
For the beginner striving toward yoga, disciplined action is the means. For one who is established in yoga, quietude is the path.
हिन्दी अनुवाद:
योग की इच्छा रखने वाले साधक के लिए कर्म साधन है, परंतु योग में स्थित व्यक्ति के लिए शांति ही साधन है।
🔍 Deep Reflection:
Early stage: act, serve, work with detachment. Later stage: move inward, rest in silence. Both stages are essential.
🪔 Modern Insight:
Don’t skip the discipline phase in a rush for "peace." Earn stillness by walking through effort first.
📜 Shloka 4
यदा हि नेन्द्रियार्थेषु न कर्मस्वनुषज्जते |
सर्वसङ्कल्पसंन्यासी योगारूढस्तदोच्यते ||4||
English Translation:
When one is unattached to sensory pleasures and action itself, and has renounced all desires, then that person is said to be established in yoga.
हिन्दी अनुवाद:
जब व्यक्ति इंद्रियों के विषयों और कर्मों से आसक्त नहीं होता और समस्त संकल्पों का त्याग कर देता है, तभी वह योग में स्थित कहलाता है।
🔍 Deep Reflection:
It’s not enough to act without desire—you also need to let go of the identity around acting. No clinging. No “I did it.”
🪔 Modern Insight:
Move from “achievement” mindset to “awareness” mindset.
📜 Shloka 5
उद्धरेदात्मनाऽत्मानं नात्मानमवसादयेत् |
आत्मैव ह्यात्मनो बन्धुरात्मैव रिपुरात्मनः ||5||
English Translation:
Let one elevate oneself by their own self—never degrade it. The self alone is its own friend or enemy.
हिन्दी अनुवाद:
मनुष्य को अपने द्वारा ही अपना उद्धार करना चाहिए; उसे अपने को गिराना नहीं चाहिए, क्योंकि आत्मा ही उसकी मित्र है और आत्मा ही उसकी शत्रु है।
🔍 Deep Reflection:
The battle is always inside. Either you lift yourself through awareness—or fall by neglect.
🪔 Modern Insight:
You are not your thoughts. You are the one watching them. Train that witness.
📜 Shloka 6
बन्धुरात्मात्मनस्तस्य येनात्मैवात्मना जितः |
अनात्मनस्तु शत्रुत्वे वर्तेतात्मैव शत्रुवत् ||6||
English Translation:
One who has mastered the mind is a friend to themselves. But if the mind is unmastered, it acts as the enemy.
हिन्दी अनुवाद:
जिसने अपने मन को जीत लिया है, उसके लिए आत्मा मित्र है; लेकिन जिसने नहीं जीता, उसके लिए आत्मा शत्रु समान है।
🔍 Deep Reflection:
The mind is your tool—or your tormentor. Master it, or be mastered by it.
🪔 Modern Insight:
Discipline your inner world—before it dictates your outer one.
📜 Shloka 7
जितात्मनः प्रशान्तस्य परमात्मा समाहितः |
शीतोष्णसुखदुःखेषु तथा मानापमानयोः ||7||
English Translation:
The serene person who has conquered the mind remains united with the Divine, unaffected by heat and cold, pleasure and pain, honor and insult.
हिन्दी अनुवाद:
जिस व्यक्ति ने आत्मा को जीत लिया है और जिसका मन शांत है, वह परमात्मा में स्थित रहता है और शीत-उष्ण, सुख-दुःख, मान-अपमान में सम रहता है।
🔍 Deep Reflection:
Equanimity is the signature of a steady mind. If you’re reactive, you're still in training.
🪔 Modern Insight:
Build emotional range — not just highs and lows. Practice stillness as your baseline.
📜 Shloka 8–9
ज्ञानविज्ञानतृप्तात्मा कूटस्थो विजितेन्द्रियः |
युक्त इत्युच्यते योगी समलोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनः ||8||
सुहृन्मित्रार्युदासीनमध्यस्थद्वेष्यबन्धुषु |
साधुष्वपि च पापेषु समबुद्धिर्विशिष्यते ||9||
English Translation:
The yogi who is content with knowledge and Self-realization, has conquered the senses, and sees a clod of earth, a stone, and gold as equal—is perfectly steady. One who views friend and foe, saint and sinner alike, is the highest among yogis.
हिन्दी अनुवाद:
जो ज्ञान और विज्ञान में संतुष्ट है, इंद्रियों को जीत चुका है, मिट्टी, पत्थर और सोने को समान दृष्टि से देखता है — वह सच्चा योगी है। और जो मित्र, शत्रु, उदासीन, द्वेषी, सज्जन और पापी में समदृष्टि रखता है — वह श्रेष्ठ योगी है।
🔍 Deep Reflection:
True spirituality doesn’t label people—it sees through them into their shared essence.
🪔 Modern Insight:
Stop reacting to status, behavior, or roles. See soul, not surface.
📜 Shloka 10
योगी युञ्जीत सततमात्मानं रहसि स्थितः |
एकाकी यतचित्तात्मा निराशीरपरिग्रहः ||10||
English Translation:
Let the yogi constantly engage the self in meditation, dwelling in solitude, with disciplined body and mind—free of desires and possessions.
हिन्दी अनुवाद:
योगी को एकांत में, अकेला, मन और आत्मा को वश में रखकर, इच्छा और संग्रह से रहित होकर, निरंतर आत्मा में स्थित रहना चाहिए।
🔍 Deep Reflection:
Meditation isn’t a retreat from the world — it’s a return to your Self.
🪔 Modern Insight:
Learn to be alone — not lonely. Silence is your spiritual superpower.
🌱 Ancient Verse – Modern Wisdom
| Gita Insight | Modern Life Lesson |
|---|---|
| Detached action is higher than abandonment | Don’t run from duty—rise above result |
| Control the mind or be controlled by it | Your thoughts shape your life — train them |
| Balance amid opposites is real mastery | Peace is power — not passivity |
| Solitude helps realignment | Digital detox is the new sadhana |
🧘 Message to Gen Z: Start Where You Are — The Inner Journey Is Now
- 🛠️ Don’t wait to be “ready” — discipline is built by beginning
- 🎧 Mute the world for a moment — hear your soul’s signal
- 💫 Stillness is the highest flex in a noisy world
- 🌾 Daily meditation is not escape — it’s a reunion with your power
➡️ Up Next: Shlokas 11–20 – Asana, Breath, Focus & the Road to Inner Peace