Chapter 6: Dhyāna Yoga – Yoga through Meditation and Contemplation: Verse 46
तपस्विभ्योऽधिको योगी ज्ञानिभ्योऽपि मतोऽधिक: ।
कर्मिभ्यश्चाधिको योगी तस्माद्योगी भवार्जुन ॥
tapasvibhyo’dhiko yogī jñānibhyo’pi mato’dhika:
karmibhyaś-cādhiko yogī tasmād-yogī bhavārjuna – 6.46
A Yogi is superior to ascetics; he is above Vedic scholars. He also is superior to the ritualists. Therefore, Arjuna, be a Yogi.
Chapter 6: Dhyāna Yoga – Yoga through Meditation and Contemplation - Verse 46
Ma Gurupriya
Every chapter of Gita concludes describing its content and message as ‘yoga-śāstra’. It means Bhagavad Gita is a science of yoga. And it discusses the science variously. Krishna makes it clear that āsanas, mudras and prāṇāyamas do not denote the real inner yoga. Yoga signifies a union or fusion. Such fusion is possible only in the inner domain, wherein the thinker, thinking and thought become one.
Gita discusses, reveals and clarifies this inner yoga alone. It applies to mind, intelligence, ego and further. All are but one Consciousness that animates and activates the body.
Krishna points that one who pursues Gita’s buddhi-yoga is superior to ascetics, Vedic scholars and ritualists. Therefore, Krishna exhorts Arjuna to be a yogi. Krishna’s yoga is the dedicated pursuit of actions, but with right orientation of the mind and intelligence.
