BG 6.1: The Lord said: He who performs works that ought to be done without seeking their fruits—he is a Sannyasin and Yogin, and not he who maintains no sacred fires and performs no actions.

BG 6.2: That which is called Sannyasa (Jñana Yoga), know that to be Yoga (Karma Yoga), O Arjuna. For (among Karma Yogins) no one whose delusive identification of the body with the self is not abandoned, becomes a true Karma Yogin.

BG 6.3: Action is said to be the means for the sage who seeks to climb the heights of Yoga; but when he has climbed the heights of Yoga, tranquillity is said to be the means.

BG 6.4: For, when one loses attachment for the things of the senses and to actions, then has he abandoned all desires and is said to have climbed the heights of Yoga.

BG 6.5: One should raise the self by his own mind and not allow the self to sink; for the mind alone is the friend of the self, and the mind alone is the foe of the self.

BG 6.6: The mind is the friend of him by whom the mind has been conquered. But for him whose mind is not conquered, the mind, like an enemy, remains hostile.

BG 6.7: Of him whose mind is conquered and who is serene, the great self is well secured in heat and cold, in pleasure and pain, and in honour and dishonour.

BG 6.8: The Yogin whose mind is content with knowledge of the self and also of knowledge of the difference of the self from Prakrti, who is established in the self, whose senses are subdued and to whom earth, stone and gold seem all alike, is called integrated.

BG 6.9: He who regards with an equal eye well-wishers, friends, foes, the indifferent, neutrals, the hateful, the relations, and even the good and the sinful—he excels.

BG 6.10: The Yogin should constantly fix his mind on Yoga, remaining in a solitary place all alone, controlling his thought and mind, free from desire and sense of possession.

BG 6.11: Having established for himself, in a clean spot, a firm seat, which is neither too high nor too low, and covering it with cloth, deer-skin and Kusha grass in the reverse order—

BG 6.12: There, sitting on the seat, with the mind concentrated and holding the mind and senses in check,he should practise Yoga for the purification of the self.

BG 6.13: Holding the trunk, head and neck erect, motionless and steady, gazing at the tip of the nose, and looking not in any direction;

BG 6.14: Serene and fearless, firm in the vow of celibacy, holding the mind in check and fixing the thought on Me, he should sit in Yoga, intent on Me.

BG 6.15: Ever applying his mind in this way, the Yogin of controlled mind, attains the peace which is the summit of beatitude and which abides in Me.

BG 6.16: Yoga is not for him who over-eats, nor for him who fasts excessively; not for him, O Arjuna, who sleeps too much, nor for him who stays awake too long.

BG 6.17: Yoga becomes the destroyer of sorrows to him who is temperate in food and recreation, who is temperate in actions, who is temperate in sleep and wakefulness.

BG 6.18: When the subdued mind rests on the self alone, then, free of all yearning for objects of desire, one is said to be fit for Yoga.

BG 6.19: ‘A lamp does not flicker in a windless place’—that is the simile employed for the subdued mind of a Yogin who practises Yoga.

BG 6.20: Where the mind, controlled by the practice of Yoga, rests and where seeing the self by the self one is delighted by the self only;

BG 6.21: Where one knows that infinite happiness which can be grasped by the intellect but is beyond the grasp of the senses, wherein established one swerves not from that condition;

BG 6.22: Which, having gained, one holds there is no greater gain beyond it; wherein established, one is not moved even by the heaviest sorrow—

BG 6.23: Know this deliverance from association with misery to be Yoga. This Yoga must be practised with determination and with a mind free from despondency.

BG 6.24: Renouncing entirely all desires born of volition and restraining the mind from all the senses on all sides;

BG 6.25: Little by little one should withdraw oneself from the objects other than the self with the help of the intellect held by firm resolution; and then one should think of nothing else, having fixed the mind upon the self.

BG 6.26: Wherever the fickle and unsteady mind wanders, he should subdue it then and there and bring it back under the control of the self alone.

BG 6.27: For supreme happiness comes to the Yogin whose mind is at peace, who is free of evil, from whom the Rajas has departed, and who has become the Brahman.

BG 6.28: Thus devoting himself to the Yoga of the self, freed from impurities, the Yogin easily attains the supreme bliss of contact with the Brahman.

BG 6.29: He whose mind is fixed in Yoga sees equality everywhere; he sees his self as abiding in all beings and all beings in his self.

BG 6.30: To him who sees Me in every self and sees every self in Me—I am not lost to him and he is not lost to Me.

BG 6.31: The Yogin who, fixed in oneness, worships Me dwelling in all beings—he abides in Me, howsoever he may live.

BG 6.32: He who, by reason of the similarity of selves everywhere, sees the pleasure or pain as the same everywhere—that Yogin, O Arjuna, is deemed as the highest

BG 6.33: Arjuna said: This Yoga of equality, which has been declared by You, O Krishna, I do not see that it can be steady because of the fickleness of the mind.

BG 6.34: For the mind is fickle, O Krishna, impetuous, powerful and stubborn. I think that restraint of it is as difficult as that Of the wind.

BG 6.35: The Lord said: The mind is hard to subdue and fickle, no doubt, O mighty-armed one, but, O son of Kunti, by practice and by the exercise of dispassion it can be brought under control.

BG 6.36: In my opinion Yoga is hard to attain by a person of unrestrained mind. However, it can be attained through right means by him, who strives for it and has a subdued mind.

BG 6.37: Arjuna said: If a person, who is possessed of faith but has put in only inadequate effort, finds his mind wandering away from Yoga, and then fails to attain perfection—what way does he go, O Krishna?

BG 6.38: Without any support, confused in the path leading to the the Brahman., and thus fallen from both, does he not perish, O mighty armed, like a riven cloud?

BG 6.39: You should altogether remove this doubt of mine, O Krishna, for there is no other remover of this doubt than You.

BG 6.40: The Lord said: Neither here (in this world) nor there (in the next), Arjuna, is there destruction for him. For, no one who does good ever comes to an evil end.

BG 6.41: He who has fallen away from Yoga is born again in the house of the pure and prosperous after having attained to the worlds of doers of good deeds and dwelt there for many long years.

BG 6.42: Or he is born in a family of wise Yogins. But such a birth in this world is rarer to get.

BG 6.43: There he regains the disposition of mind which he had in his former body, O Arjuna, and from there he strives much more for success in Yoga.

BG 6.44: By the power of his earlier practice, he is carried forward even against his will. Even though he is an enquirer about Yoga, he transcends the Sabda-brahman i.e., Prakrti or matter

BG 6.45: But the Yogin striving earnestly, cleansed of all his stains, and perfected through many births, reaches the supreme state.

BG 6.46: Greater than the austere, greater than those who possess knowledge, greater than the ritualists is the Yogin. Therefore, O Arjuna, become a Yogin.

BG 6.47: He who with faith worships Me, whose inmost self is fixed in Me, I consider him as the greatest of the Yogins.