How do we attain that yoga which was praised in the previous verse? The Lord explains..
आरुरुक्षोर्मुनेर्योगं कर्म कारणमुच्यते ।
योगारूढस्य तस्यैव शमः कारणमुच्यते ॥
aarurukshormuneryogaM karma kaaraNamuchyate .
yogaaruuDhasya tasyaiva shamaH kaaraNamuchyate .6.3.
The wise men who want to climb the heights of yoga can achieve this by disinterested action. But for those souls who have become established in yoga, only absence of all thoughts of the world can lead to salvation.
Word Meanings:
muneH – those wise men :
yogaM aarurukshoH – who want to climb to the heights of yoga :
karma – disinterested action :
kaaraNaM uchyate – is called the stepping stone:
yogaaruuDhasya tasya – when the same person is established in yoga :
shamaH eva – only absence of thoughts of the world :
kaaraNaM uchyate – is the way to salvation:
When a person wants to reach the heights of karmayoga and overcome the pairs of opposites, the way he can achieve it is by performing disinterested action. When the same person becomes established in yoga, then he should be free from attachment to the world and thus attain God realization.
We speak about experts in all fields. Once there was a lawyer who was such an expert in arguing that he convinced the jury that the judge was guilty!!
In this Sloka the two stages of spiritual life are pointed out. One is the Aruruksha or one who wants to reach the heights of yoga and the other is aaruuDa or one who has reached the heights. Initially, a person should perform actions without expecting results and when he reaches the later stage, then he need not perform any action, he can spend his life in dhyaana or contemplating on God.. He can also spend his life in all actions that are centered in God. These actions comprise what is called the Bhagavatha Dharma. They include ShravanaM or hearing about the Lord, kirtanaM or singing his praises, smaranaM or remembering the Lord, padasevanaM or service, archanaM or worship, vandanaM or saluting, daasyaM or being a servant of the Lord, sakhyaM or being a friend of the Lord and aatmanivedanaM or total surrender.
Once a man was traveling in his BMW when he had an accident. Another car crashed into the side of his car and the door itself was thrown away. The man was standing on the road and crying, “Oh! My poor BMW, it got damaged so much”. The police officer who came there said, “How can you be so money minded, You are crying so much about your car that you did not even realize that your hand has been cut off and thrown away in the accident”. The man thought for a minute and said, “Oh! My Rolex watch!” For people like these there is no peace in this world.
The word SamaH means that there is total peace in mind. This peace is a result of the fact that there are no thoughts or attachment to the world. This peace takes the yogi to God realization
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My hearty thanks for clear explantion