Chapter 6 · Dhyāna Yoga

The Path of Meditation

How to sit, breathe and steady the mind, and how to be gentle with it when it wanders.

6.1The renunciant who never leftKrishna
6.2Drop the inner schemingKrishna
6.3First the climb, then the stillnessKrishna
6.4When the hook lets goKrishna
6.5Lift yourself by yourselfKrishna
6.6Your mind, ally or rivalKrishna
6.7Steady through praise and blameKrishna
6.8Earth, stone and goldKrishna
6.9Even toward the difficult onesKrishna
6.10A little time aloneKrishna
6.11A seat not too high, not too lowKrishna
6.12One point of focusKrishna
6.13Spine straight, eyes loweredKrishna
6.14Sit without fearKrishna
6.15The peace that rests in GodKrishna
6.16Not too much, not too littleKrishna
6.17The rhythm that ends sorrowKrishna
6.18When wanting goes quietKrishna
6.19A lamp where no wind blowsKrishna
6.20Seeing yourself, and being contentKrishna
6.21A joy the senses cannot reachKrishna
6.22Unshaken by the heaviest sorrowKrishna
6.23Yoga is unhooking from sorrowKrishna
6.24Desires born of daydreamsKrishna
6.25Little by littleKrishna
6.26Bring it back, againKrishna
6.27The highest happinessKrishna
6.28It gets easierKrishna
6.29Yourself in everyoneKrishna
6.30Never lost to each otherKrishna
6.31However you liveKrishna
6.32Feeling others as yourselfKrishna
6.33But my mind won't stay stillArjuna
6.34Like trying to hold the windArjuna
6.35Practice and letting goKrishna
6.36Possible with the right meansKrishna
6.37What if I try and fail?Arjuna
6.38Like a broken cloudArjuna
6.39Only You can answer thisArjuna
6.40No good effort is ever lostKrishna
6.41Picking up where you left offKrishna
6.42Born among the wiseKrishna
6.43Wisdom that comes backKrishna
6.44Carried by past practiceKrishna
6.45Perfected through many livesKrishna
6.46Be a yogi, ArjunaKrishna
6.47The one who loves Me mostKrishna