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come to know that his real happiness is in experiencing the pleasure of his transcendental senses, not Senses are not to be sacrificed, and desires are not to be sacrificed, but there are both desires and If one is not convinced of this, he will surely be agitated and will fall down. One should therefore know that the happiness he is trying to derive from material senses is not really

In the execution of yoga, it is very important that the mind is not agitated.

“O mighty-armed Kṛṣṇa,” Arjuna continues, “does not such a man, being deviated from the path of Transcendence (Bg. 6.38) When a cloud is torn apart by the wind, it does not mend back together again.

It is not that Bhagavad-gītā rejects the meditational yoga process; it recognizes it as a bona fide method , but it further indicates that it is not possible in this age.

Theoretical knowledge alone will not help. One has to be able to also apply this knowledge. Similarly, in yoga one should have not only theo­retical knowledge but practical knowledge. Simply understanding “I am not this body” and at the same time acting in a nonsensical way will not help It will not help if one only has knowledge theoretically. This knowledge must be demonstrated. One who truly understands “I am not this body” will actually reduce his bodily necessities to a minimum

“What is the destination of the man of faith who does not persevere, who in the beginning takes to the process of self-realization but who later desists due to worldly-mindedness and thus does not attain becomes of the unsuccessful yogī, or the person who attempts to perform yoga but somehow desists and does not It is something like a student who does not get his degree because he drops out of school. Even if a man has faith and strives for perfection in the yoga system, Arjuna points out that he may not

The eating process should be moderate, just enough to keep body and soul together; it should not be for When palatable dishes come before us, we are accustomed to take not just one of the preparations but Kṛṣṇa does not say that there is such a thing as dreamless sleep. As soon as we go to sleep, we will have a dream, although we may not remember it. One should not sleep more than six hours daily.

When we read or study Bhagavad-gītā under a bona fide spiritual master we should not think that the spiritual It is not he who is speaking. He is just an instrument.

(Bg. 6.44) In the material world, we have experience that we do not carry our assets from one life to At death, the bank balance does not go with me; it remains in the bank to be enjoyed by somebody else This is not the case with spiritual culture.

(Bg. 6.11–12) Generally yogīs sit on tiger skin or deerskin because reptiles will not crawl on such skins Every grass and herb has its use and serves some function, although we may not know what it is. The yogī should not think, “Now I will try to achieve some wonderful powers.” Sometimes yogīs do attain certain siddhis, or powers, but these are not the purpose of yoga, and real yogīs do not exhibit them.

“As a lamp in a windless place does not waver, so the transcendentalist, whose mind is controlled, remains (Bg. 6.19) When a candle is in a windless place, its flame remains straight and does not waver.

Of course everyone is motivated by sex life, but sex life is not actually discouraged. If we do not regulate our activities, our mind will be more and more agitated. It is not that activities are to be stopped, but regulated by the mind always engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness It is not that when one is in samādhi he doesn’t eat, work, sleep or enjoy himself in any way.

enjoyment is unlimited, that unlimited enjoyment is real happiness, and such happiness is spiritual, not We do not have to sacrifice pleasure, but we do have to enjoy it properly. Similarly, as long as we are in the material conception of life, we are not actually enjoying ourselves If a sick man is not supposed to eat, his eating unrestrictedly actually kills him.

One should not take the chance of finishing up the process in another birth but should resolve to finish We should be determined in this way: “Somehow or other in my last life, I did not finish my spiritual Thus after leaving this body one will not again take birth in this material world, where birth, old age Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī used to say, “This place is not fit for a gentleman.”

But the Vedic literatures do not recommend meditating on any void. Of course, this is not recommended by Śrī Kṛṣṇa in Bhagavad-gītā. If one does not follow the instructions, the result will be sleep and nothing more. Sometimes, of course, meditation goes on when one is sleeping, but this is not the recommended process It is not that one is to transfer his thought to vacancy.

is asking this question about the fate of the unsuccessful yogī so that in the future people would not By a yogī, Arjuna is referring to the haṭha-yogī, jñāna-yogī and bhakti-yogī; it is not that meditation

It is not possible to live in peace anywhere in the material world. Kīrtana may go on for hours, and one may not feel tired, but it is difficult to sit in lotus position Yet regardless of the process, once the fire of material life is extinguished, one does not simply experience

It is not possible to understand what honor is unless I understand dishonor. Insofar as one strives to get out of bodily conceptions – not out of the body but out of bodily conceptions Just because there is itching, one should not be mad after it to scratch it. We should not go mad or give up our duty just because mosquitoes bite us.

Purification is realizing that “I am pure spirit – I am not this matter.” It is not possible to come to this understanding if one executes the process improperly.

is completely celibate and the other is gṛhastha-brahmacārī, that is to say he has a wife, he does not desire; therefore in India those practicing the traditional yoga under strict vows of celibacy are not