| Atma Sanyam Yoga :- SHLOK 23 |
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| 23. This severance
from union with pain, be it known, is called union (Yoga. That Yoga must
be practiced with determination and with undepressed heart. Severance from
union with pain is called Yoga (which means union) by a sort of irony. Having
thus concluded speaking of the effect of Yoga, the Lord again refers to
the necessity of it, with a view to show that determination and nondepression
(selfreliance) are necessary means to Yoga: That Yoga: the Yoga which can
produce the result described above.Further directions concerning the practice
of Yoga. |
| Sri Shankaracharaya |
| 23. One who assiduously endeavours
to establish his mind in Atman alone by persevering his efforts with a determined
mind, giving up all desires, withdrawing his senses from their respective
objects and without thinking about any- thing else - he alone attains this
state. |
| Sri. Gangolli D.B |
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