Chapter 6: Dhyāna Yoga – Yoga through Meditation and Contemplation: Verse 33
अर्जुन उवाच।
योऽयं योगस्त्वया प्रोक्त: साम्येन मधुसूदन ।
एतस्याहं न पश्यामि चञ्चलत्वात्स्थितिं स्थिराम् ॥
arjuna uvāca
yo’yaṃ yogas-tvayā prokta: sāmyena madhusūdana
etasyāhaṃ na paśyāmi cañcalatvāt-sthitiṃ sthirām – 6.33
Arjuna said: O Madhusūdana, the yoga you have described is in the nature of ‘evenness’. I am not able to see its stability and prevalence because of my mind’s restlessness.
Chapter 6: Dhyāna Yoga – Yoga through Meditation and Contemplation - Verse 33
Ma Gurupriya
Apparently Arjuna has grasped Krishna’s instructions quite well. Yoga, Krishna exposes, says Arjuna, is ‘equalness of mind’, to be applied to every activity and interaction, as they will always evoke sukha or duḥkha. Evenness to these is the crux of yoga.
For one used to yearning for happiness, differentiating it from unhappiness, to adopt the singular attitude of evenness will be stunningly hard. That too, in and through everything he does. It is a grave challenge, compulsion. How can all people be ready for it, much less think of succeeding in this wholesome attitude and orientation? For the desultory mind, consistency in the pursuit is too hard. It is quite heartening to hear about the practice, but to actualize it is not so. Arjuna is quite skeptical on this account.
