BG 6.23
This severance from the affliction of misery is called Yoga. It should be practiced with determination and a mind free from despondency.
स निश्चयेन योक्तव्यो योगोऽनिर्विण्णचेतसा
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taṁ — that
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vidyād — you should know
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duḥkha-sanyoga-viyogaṁ — state of severance from union with misery
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duḥkha — misery, pain
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sanyoga
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viyogaṁ
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yogasaṅjñitam — is known as Yoga
yoga-saṁjñitam -
sa — that
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niśhchayena — resolutely
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yoktavyo — should be practiced
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yogo — Yoga
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’nirviṇṇa-chetasā — with an undeviating mind
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’nirviṇṇa
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chetasā
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This severance from the affliction of misery is called Yoga. It should be practiced with determination and a mind free from despondency. Renouncing all desires born of thought and imagination, completely restraining the senses from all sides, one should slowly withdraw oneself from objects other than the self, with an intellect held in strong determination. Fixing the mind in the self, one should not think of anything at all. Wherever the restless and unsteady mind wanders, one should subdue it and bring it back under control of the self alone.
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