Chapter 6: Dhyāna Yoga – Yoga through Meditation and Contemplation: Verse 12
तत्रैकाग्रं मन: कृत्वा यतचित्तेन्द्रियक्रिय: ।
उपविश्यासने युञ्ज्याद्योगमात्मविशुद्धये ॥
tatraikāgraṃ mana: kṛtvā yata-cittendriya-kriya:
upaviśyāsane yuñjyād-yogam-ātma-viśuddhaye – 6.12
There, making the mind sufficiently attuned, restraining the activities of the inner faculties and senses, let him sit on the āsana and apply himself to yoga for purifying his being.
Chapter 6: Dhyāna Yoga – Yoga through Meditation and Contemplation - Verse 12
Ma Gurupriya
On the well prepared āsana, the practitioner should take his seat and begin the practice of meditation. For this, he should first fix his mind solely on the task and strive to collect and restrain all his inner and outer functions.
Meditation being an exclusive inner process, wherein mind and intelligence alone are involved, bodily or worldly involvement should not be fostered or encouraged at all.
Initially it will be a process of discovering and familiarizing with what takes place in the mind and intelligence. The more you are given to it, the easier it becomes to moderate and calm down the thinking and intellecting processes.
Focussing on an optional thought is very effective in reducing and attenuating the thinking process. But all this is possible when the mind becomes pure and purer. That is why Krishna says self-purification must be the sole aim of meditation. No distraction is to be permitted.
