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GĪTĀ, TRANSLATION & COMMENTARY, CH. VI 1001
अर्जुन उवाच। $ अयतिः श्रद्धयोपेतो योगाच्चलितमानसः।
अप्राप्य योगसंसिद्धिं कां गतिं कृष्ण गच्छति ॥ ३७॥ for him, it will be difficult in My opinion to achieve this Yoga (of Equable Reason); but, if one makes the effort, after controlling the Inner Sense, it is possible to acquire this Yoga
[In short, that which appears difficult in the beginning can ultimately be achieved by practice and by industry. ' abhyāsa' means 'doing any particular thing over and over again'; and 'vairūgya' means "absence of 'rūga' or of 'love'”, that is to say, "absence of desire". In the Pāiañjala-Yoga-Sūtras, after first describing the nature of Yoga, as "yogaś cittavrtlınırodhah”, that is, "controlling the activities of the Mental Vision is Yoga”, (see the 20th stanza of this Chapter), it is stated in the next sūtra that "abhyāsa vairāgyābhyām tan nirodhah”, that is, "Mental Vision is controlled by practice and by indifference to the world". The same words have been used in the Gītā, and the meaning is the same; but it cannot be stated, on that account, that, these words have been taken from the Patañjala-Sūtras (See Gi. Ra. pp. 746-747). Although it is thus possible to attain samūdhi (mental absorption) in this way, by controlling the Mind, and although it might be possible for some determined persons to acquire it by practice in six months, yet, another difficulty now arises, to the following effect, namely, this highest stage of the Karma-Yoga cannot be acquired by many people even after several births, as a result of their inherent nature. How are such people to attain this perfection ? Because, even if such a person begins to practise Karma-Yoga, in one life, after having practised the control of the senses as far as possible, yet, that practice is bound to remain incomplete at the moment of his death; and if in the next birth, he is to start over again from the beginning, the same thing will be repeated in his next birth. Therefore, the next question of Arjuna is as to what such persons should do
Arjuna said :-(37) O Krsna, what state is attained by
