Chapter 6 – Dhyana Yoga

Dr. Lila Purushottam Das (a.k.a Prof. Laxmidhar Behera) 

Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur
 Organization of this Chapter
Who is a Yogi?
1-9
The process of Dhyana Yoga – The Meditation on
10-18 Krishna

19-32 A yogi in perfected stage

33-36 The art of mind control

37-47 Destination of a fallen yogi and the top most yoga

system
 Essence of this chapter – Devotional service is the
best form of yoga which intimately unites me with
Krishna
yoginām api sarveṣāṁ
mad-gatenāntar-ātmanā
śraddhāvān bhajate yo māṁ
sa me yukta-tamo mataḥ
And of all yogīs, the one with great faith
who always abides in Me, thinks of Me
within himself and renders
transcendental loving service to Me –
he is the most intimately united with
Me in yoga and is the highest of all.
That is My opinion. 6.47
 Section 1: Who is a Yogi? 6.1-10
• V1 He who is inactive is not a Yogi. Yogi acts according to
his varna and ashrama and renounces the fruits of actions.
• V2 Renunciation is to recognize that everything belongs to
Krishna
• V3 The process of linking oneself with the Supreme is
called yoga. However this linking process varies from
person to person according to their level of advancement..
• V4 An elevated Yogi is materially inactive and spiritually
active.
• V5,6 Controlled Mind is one’s best friend while an
uncontrolled mind becomes one’s worst enemy.
• V7 A self-controlled Yogi is equipoised in dual situations
• V8 A yogi is self-situated and self controlled.
• V9 An advanced yogi sees a friend and enemy in equal
mind while a normal yogi sees a pebble, a stone or a piece
of gold in equal mind.
Section 2: The process of Dhyana Yoga –
The Meditation on Krishna 6.11-18
V10 A yogi should always engage his body, mind and self
in relationship with the Supreme – in a secluded place.
V11-12 In a secluded place, a yogī should sit firmly and
practice yoga to purify the heart by controlling his mind,
senses and activities and fixing the mind on Supreme.
V13-14 With an unagitated, subdued mind, devoid of
fear, completely free from sex life, a Yogi should
meditate upon Krishna within the heart and make
Krishna the ultimate goal of life.
V15 A self-regulated yogi attains to the kingdom of God
[or the abode of Kṛṣṇa] by cessation of material
existence.
V16-18 One is well established in yoga if properly
purifies four basic instincts Eating, Mating, Sleeping and
Defending
Section 3: A yogi in perfected stage
6.19-32
V19 A yogi is always steady in his meditation on the
transcendent Self just like an unwavering lamp.
V20-23  A perfected yogi attains the state of Samadhi - 24 hrs in
Krishna Conscious state. He enjoys boundless transcendental
happiness, realized through transcendental senses .
V24-27 A yogi must not fail in controlling his mind even a
person in a perfect state may be disturbed. This is possible by
fixing mind in Krishna through devotional service.
V28 Pure devotional service to Krishna is attained in the
perfected stage of Yoga.
V29-32 A perfected yogi observes Krishna in all beings and
also sees every being in Krishna, sees Krishna everywhere
and sees everything in Krishna, and performs worshipful
service of the Supersoul, knowing that Krishna and the
Supersoul are one.
Section 4: The Art of
mind control 6.33-36
V33-34 Arjuna finds mind control very difficult – he finds
it even more difficult as compared to subdue violent
wind
V35-36 Lord Krishna, although accepts mind control is
very difficult, states that mind must be controlled by
proper practice and detachment - Abhyasa and vairagya.

– Improper practice of chanting, reading,

hearing makes weeds to grow
– Attachment to matter and improper
practice is the cause of unsteady mind
– Bhakti is the highest form of meditation in
terms of attaining a steady mind
Section 5: Destination of a fallen yogi and the top most yoga
system 6.37-47
V37-39 Arjuna asked: O Kṛṣṇa, what is the destination of the
unsuccessful transcendentalists? Do they loose both in terms of
material and spiritual successes?
V40-42 The spiritual endeavor brings in eternal benefit and a fallen
yogi (in the initial stage of advancement) is given another opportunity
as he takes birth into a family of righteous people, or into a
family of rich aristocracy after he enjoys the heavenly life for
many years. A fallen yogi who was at a very advanced stage
is born in the family of advanced vaisnavas – a very rare
birth. Example of Maharaja Bharata
V43-45 When fall down happens in a very advanced stage, the yogi
after taking birth in a noble vaisnava family does not waste the
opportunity until gets perfection.
V46 A yogī is greater than the ascetic, greater than the
empiricist and greater than the fruitive worker.
V47 Bhakti yoga is the top most yoga system
 Take away from Chapter 6
• The Art of Mind Control
• Dhyana – Meditation is a very advanced
for of yoga and becomes easy in
Krishna consciousness
• Top most yoga system
Mind engaged by spiritual intelligence: Best
friend
– This chapter is dedicated to the art of mind
control
– This is central to any yoga system
– Mind must be controlled for doing something
impactful even from a material perspective
– Uncontrolled mind will provide neither
material nor spiritual success
– By spiritual intelligence – BG knowledge –
mind can be fixed in KC through devotional
service
– Any spiritual instruction is like a medical
tablet for diseased mind and heart

Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur.

 Athatho
Brahma
Jijnasa –
The Art of
Mind
Control
 Athatho Brahma Jijnasa – The Art of
Mind Control
uddhared ātmanātmānaṁ bandhur ātmātmanas tasya
nātmānam avasādayet yenātmaivātmanā jitaḥ
ātmaiva hy ātmano bandhur anātmanas tu śatrutve
ātmaiva ripur ātmanaḥ vartetātmaiva śatru-vat

A man must elevate himself by For him who has conquered

his own mind, not degrade the mind, the mind is the best of
himself. The mind is the friend of friends; but for one who has failed
the conditioned soul, and his to do so, his mind will remain
enemy as well. BG 6.5 the greatest enemy. BG 6.6
 Athatho Brahma Jijnasa – The Art of
Mind Control
jitātmanaḥ praśāntasya
paramātmā samāhitaḥ
śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkheṣu
tathā mānāpamānayoḥ
For one who has conquered the mind, the Supersoul is
already reached, for he has attained tranquillity. To such a
man happiness and distress, heat and cold, honor and
dishonor are all the same. BG 6.7
 Mind is most difficult to Control
cancalam hi manah krsna sri-bhagavan uvaca
pramathi balavad drdham asamsayam maha-baho
tasyaham nigraham manye mano durnigraham calam
vayor iva su-duskaram  abhyasena tu kaunteya
vairagyena ca grhyate

For the mind is restless, The Supreme Personality of

turbulent, obstinate and very
strong, O Krsna, and to subdue it
is, it seems to me, more difficult
than controlling the wind. BG
6.34
Godhead: O mighty-armed son of
Kunti, it is undoubtedly very
difficult to curb the restless mind,
but it is possible by constant
practice and by detachment. BG
6.35
 Mind - My only Enemy
•The mind is powerful and has many weapons—lust, envy, pride, greed,
anger and illusion. Illusion is the most powerful weapon in creation. 
•It is due to the need of these weapons that all other forms of destruction
and cruelty are surfacing. And yet we are not able to see the mind 

evaṁ buddheḥ paraṁ buddhvā

indriyāṇi parāṇy āhur
saṁstabhyātmānam ātmanā
indriyebhyaḥ paraṁ manaḥ jahi śatruṁ mahā-bāho
manasas tu parā buddhir kāma-rūpaṁ durāsadam
yo buddheḥ paratas tu saḥ

The working senses are superior to dull matter; mind
is higher than the senses, intelligence is still higher
than the mind; and he [the soul] is even higher than
the intelligence. Bg 3.42
Thus knowing oneself to be transcendental to the
material senses, mind and intelligence, O mighty-
armed Arjuna, one should steady the mind by
deliberate spiritual intelligence [Kṛṣṇa consciousness]
and thus – by spiritual strength – conquer this
insatiable enemy known as lust. BG 3.43
 Mind is self aware

Mind

Thoughts
and
Desires

Accepts Rejects
 Mind is an element in mode of goodness

Mind gets agitated by

passion and
ignorance 
 Mind in goodness

Mind

Contemplate
Associates
Stays in s on the Becomes a
with other Natural state
present nature of seeker
seekers
truth
Mind in passion and
ignorance

Mind

Future Past

Hanker Lamen
s ts
 Mind in pure goodness

Mind

Reveals
Self
 3. The Environment
1.Karmic Memory ​

4. Spiritual Genealogy

2. Genealogical Memory ​

What is my Nature?
 Progression to Krishna Meditation
• Ordinary people are attached to • But real jnana is to understand
fruitive activity – so must be Krishna as the Absolute Truth
engaged in their prescribed • Those who are advanced are
activity for gradual progress in engaged in Krishna conscious
Krishna consciousness. This is activities to realize Krishna
called Karma yoga • Those who understand Krishna as
• Those who are interested in the Absolute Truth and are
speculative knowledge are capable of controlling their mind,
allowed to live in Himalayas to can accept the meditation on
engage in jnana yoga in seclusion. Krishna – that is dhyana yoga
Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Department of Electrical
Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
 Essence of Krishna Meditation
Arjuna can meditate on Krishna even while vikretukāmā kila gopa-kanyā
fighting in the battle but for him meditation murāri-pādārpita-citta-vṛttiḥ
under a tree is very difficult.
dadhyādikaṁ mohavaśād avocad
govinda dāmodara mādhaveti
pravāla-śobhā iva dīrgha-keśā
vātāmbu-parṇāśana-pūta-dehāḥ Though desiring to sell milk, dahī,
mūle tarūṇāṁ munayaḥ paṭhanti butter, etc., the mind of a young gopī
govinda dāmodara mādhaveti was so absorbed in the lotus feet of
With long, matted hair the color of coral, and Kṛṣṇa that instead of calling out "Milk
bodies purified by eating only leaves, water,
and air, the sages sit beneath the trees and
for sale," she bewilderedly said,
chant, "Govinda," "Dāmodara," and "Govinda!", Dāmodara!", and
"Mādhava." "Mādhava!"
Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Department of Electrical
Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
 Essence of Krishna Meditation
• There is no definitive way of • Seclusion doesn't mean only going
Krishna meditation to the Himalayas. There are sages
• Arjuna’s fear that he can not who can live in Himalaya while
meditate on Krishna by being in a meditating on Krishna. But most of
secluded place as this is contrary us must be trained to meditate on
to his nature. Krishna while being situated in our
own nature. As Lord Krishna says
• A pure devotee like Srila
in BG 5.10 - padma patram
Prabhupada can engage all ivaambhasa- lotus leaf stays in
classes of people in Krishna water being untouched by it
Meditation.
Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Department of Electrical
Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
 BG 6.1 Purport
• The living entity who acts for satisfaction of the supreme whole and
not for personal satisfaction is the perfect sannyāsī, the perfect yogī.
• Impersonalists are self-interested because their goal is to become one
with the impersonal Brahman. Such a desire is greater than any
material desire – the last snare of maya.
• A devotee works only for the pleasure of Krishna. “O Almighty Lord, I
have no desire to accumulate wealth, nor to enjoy beautiful women.
Nor do I want any number of followers. What I want only is the
causeless mercy of Your devotional service in my life, birth after birth.”

Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Department of Electrical

Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
 BG6.5 purport
• The purpose of the yoga system is to control the mind and to draw it away from
attachment to sense objects.
• It is stressed herein that the mind must be so trained that it can deliver the
conditioned soul from the mire of nescience.
• The pure soul is entangled in the material world because the mind is involved with
the false ego, which desires to lord it over material nature.
• For man, mind is the cause of bondage and mind is the cause of liberation. Mind
absorbed in sense objects is the cause of bondage, and mind detached from the
sense objects is the cause of liberation.” (Amṛta-bindu Upaniṣad 2)
• The mind which is always engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is the cause of supreme
liberation.
Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Department of Electrical
Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
 BG6.6 purport
• One who cannot control his mind lives always with the greatest
enemy, and thus his life and its mission are spoiled.
• As long as one’s mind remains an unconquered enemy, one has to
serve the dictations of lust, anger, avarice, illusion, etc.
• But when the mind is conquered, one voluntarily agrees to abide
by the dictation of the Personality of Godhead, who is situated
within the heart of everyone as Paramātmā
• For one who takes to Kṛṣṇa consciousness directly, perfect
surrender to the dictation of the Lord follows automatically.
Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Department of Electrical
Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
 BG6.7 purport
• As soon as one’s mind is controlled through one of the yoga systems,
one should be considered to have already reached the destination.
• The effect of controlling the mind is that one automatically follows the
dictation of the Paramātmā, or Supersoul.
• Because this transcendental position is at once achieved by one who is
in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the devotee of the Lord is unaffected by the
dualities of material existence, namely distress and happiness, cold
and heat, etc. This state is practical samādhi, or absorption in the
Supreme.

Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Department of Electrical

Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
 BG6.13-14 purport
• The yoga process is practiced in order to discover and see this localized form of Viṣṇu –
paramatma – plenary portion of Lord Krishna
• To realize this viṣṇu-mūrti within the heart, one has to observe complete abstinence from
sex life; therefore one has to leave home and live alone in a secluded place.
• The vow of brahmacarya is meant to help one completely abstain from sex indulgence in
work, words and mind – at all times, under all circumstances and in all places. – by
yajnavalkya
• In the bhakti school, a householder brahmacārī is allowed controlled sex life because the
cult of bhakti-yoga is so powerful that one automatically loses sexual attraction, being
engaged in the superior service of the Lord. BG2.59
• And since the ultimate goal of yoga practice is to see the Lord within, a Kṛṣṇa conscious
person is already the best of all yogīs.
Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Department of Electrical
Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
 BG6.20-23 purport
• Samādhi means that the yogī realizes the Supersoul through transcendental mind and
intelligence, without any of the misgivings of identifying the self with the Superself.
• Some unauthorized commentators try to identify the individual soul with the Supersoul, and
the monists think this to be liberation contrary to the goal of Patañjali system of yoga. There is
an acceptance of transcendental pleasure in the Patañjali system, but the monists do not
accept this transcendental pleasure, out of fear of jeopardizing the theory of oneness.
• The duality of knowledge and knower is not accepted by the nondualist, but in this verse
transcendental pleasure – realized through transcendental senses – is accepted. And this is
corroborated by Patañjali Muni, the famous exponent of the yoga system.
• This “oneness with the Supreme” is called kaivalyam by the monist. But according to Patañjali,
this kaivalyam is an internal potency by which the living entity becomes aware of his
constitutional position. – ceto darpanam marjanam.

Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Department of Electrical

Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
 BG6.20-23 purport
• Patañjali accepts svarupena vyavasthitih (SB) by his words kaivalyaṁ svarūpa-pratiṣṭhā vā citi-
śaktir iti. This citi-śakti, or transcendental pleasure, is real life. This is confirmed in the Vedānta-
sūtra (1.1.12) as ānanda-mayo ’bhyāsāt. This natural transcendental pleasure is the ultimate
goal of yoga and is easily achieved by execution of devotional service, or bhakti-yoga.
• If yogīs are attracted by the by-products of yoga, then they cannot attain the stage of
perfection, as is stated in this verse.
• The best practice of yoga in this age is Kṛṣṇa consciousness, which is not baffling. A Kṛṣṇa
conscious person is so happy in his occupation that he does not aspire after any other
happiness.
• As long as the material body exists, one has to meet the demands of the body, namely eating,
sleeping, defending and mating. But a person who is in pure bhakti-yoga, or in Kṛṣṇa
consciousness, does not arouse the senses while meeting the demands of the body.

Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Department of Electrical

Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
 BG6.35 purport
• The difficulty of controlling the obstinate mind, as expressed by Arjuna, is accepted by
the Personality of Godhead. But at the same time He suggests that by practice and
detachment it is possible.
• The more one hears about Kṛṣṇa, the more one becomes enlightened and detached
from everything that draws the mind away from Kṛṣṇa. By detaching the mind from
activities not devoted to the Lord, one can very easily learn vairāgya.
• Vairāgya means detachment from matter and engagement of the mind in spirit.
Impersonal spiritual detachment is more difficult than attaching the mind to the
activities of Kṛṣṇa
• By discharge of devotional service one feels transcendental satisfaction as the mind
becomes detached from material objectives. It is something like curing a disease by
expert treatment and appropriate diet.
Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Department of Electrical
Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
 BG6.40 purport
• If someone gives up all material prospects and takes complete shelter of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, there is no loss or degradation in any way. On the other hand a
nondevotee may fully engage in his occupational duties and yet not gain anything.SB 1.5.19
• Humanity may be divided into two sections, namely, the regulated and the nonregulated. The
non-regulated materialists perpetually remain in material existence, which is always miserable.
Those who are regulated by scriptural injunctions rise gradually to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, certainly
progress in life.
• Three categories in regulated section: (1) the followers of scriptural rules and regulations who
are enjoying material prosperity, (2) those who are trying to find ultimate liberation from
material existence, and (3) those who are devotees in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
• Activity in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is the only auspicious activity, and anyone who voluntarily accepts
all bodily discomforts for the sake of making progress on the path of Kṛṣṇa consciousness can be
called a perfect transcendentalist under severe austerity.

Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Department of Electrical

Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
 BG6.47 purport
• bhajate is applicable to the Supreme Lord only, whereas the
word “worship” can be applied to demigods or to any other
common living entity. Bhajate – devotional service; worship –
offer respect
• One can avoid worshiping a respectable man or a demigod and
may be called discourteous, but one cannot avoid serving the
Supreme Lord without being thoroughly condemned.
• Yoga actually means bhakti-yoga; all other yogas are
progressions toward the destination of bhakti-yoga.
Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Department of Electrical
Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
 BG6.47 purport
• Karma-yoga, without fruitive results, is the beginning of this path of
self realization
• When karma-yoga increases in knowledge and renunciation, the stage
is called jñāna-yoga.
• When jñāna-yoga increases in meditation on the Supersoul by different
physical processes, and the mind is on Him, it is called aṣṭāṅga-yoga.
• And when one surpasses the aṣṭāṅga-yoga and comes to the point of
the Supreme Personality of Godhead Kṛṣṇa, it is called bhakti-yoga, the
culmination.

Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Department of Electrical

Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
 BG6.47 purport
This stage of highest perfection in yoga • Bhaktir asya bhajanaṁ tad
can be attained only by bhakti-yoga, as is ihāmutropādhi-nairāsyenāmuṣmin
confirmed in all Vedic literature: manaḥ-kalpanam, etad eva
yasya deve parā bhaktir naiṣkarmyam. “Bhakti means
yathā deve tathā gurau devotional service to the Lord which is
tasyaite kathitā hy arthāḥ free from desire for material profit,
prakāśante mahātmanaḥ either in this life or in the next. Devoid
“Only unto those great souls who have of such inclinations, one should fully
implicit faith in both the Lord and the absorb the mind in the Supreme. That
spiritual master are all the imports of is the purpose of naiṣkarmya.”
Vedic knowledge automatically revealed.” (Gopāla-tāpanī Upaniṣad 1.15)
(Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 6.23)
Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Department of Electrical
Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
 Verses quoted by
Srila Prabhupada for
BG 6.1

• na dhanaṁ na janaṁ na sundarīṁ

kavitāṁ vā jagad-īśa kāmaye
mama janmani janmanīśvare
bhavatād bhaktir ahaitukī tvayi
• “O Almighty Lord, I have no desire
to accumulate wealth, nor to enjoy
beautiful women. Nor do I want
any number of followers. What I
want only is the causeless mercy of
Your devotional service in my life,
birth after birth.” (CC Antya 20.29)

Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur.

 Verses quoted by Srila Prabhupada for BG 6.8

• ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi
na bhaved grāhyam indriyaiḥ
sevonmukhe hi jihvādau
svayam eva sphuraty adaḥ
• “No one can understand the
transcendental nature of the name,
form, quality and pastimes of Śrī
Kṛṣṇa through his materially
contaminated senses. Only when
one becomes spiritually saturated
by transcendental service to the
Lord are the transcendental name,
form, quality and pastimes of the
Lord revealed to him.” (Bhakti-
rasāmṛta-sindhu 1.2.234)

Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur.

 Verses quoted by
Srila Prabhupada for BG 6.10
anāsaktasya viṣayān,            yathārham upayuñjataḥ
nirbandaḥ kṛṣṇa-sambandhe    yuktaṁ vairāgyam ucyate
prāpañcikatayā buddhyā    hari-sambandhi-vastunaḥ
mumukṣubhiḥ parityāgo     vairāgyaṁ phalgu kathyate

“When one is not attached to anything, but at the same

time accepts everything in relation to Kṛṣṇa, one is rightly
situated above possessiveness. On the other hand, one
who rejects everything without knowledge of its
relationship to Kṛṣṇa is not as complete in his
renunciation.” (Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu 1.2.255–256)

Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur.

 Verses quoted by
Srila Prabhupada for BG 6.11-12

harer nāma harer nāma

harer nāmaiva kevalam
kalau nāsty eva nāsty eva
nāsty eva gatir anyathā

“In this age of quarrel and hypocrisy the

only means of deliverance is chanting the
holy name of the Lord. There is no other
way. There is no other way. There is no
other way.” (Bṛhan-nāradīya Purāṇa 38.126)

Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur.

 Verses quoted by
Srila Prabhupada for BG 6.13-14
• karmaṇā manasā vācā • viṣayā vinivartante
sarvāvasthāsu sarvadā nirāhārasya dehinaḥ
sarvatra maithuna-tyāgo rasa-varjaṁ raso ’py asya
brahmacaryaṁ pracakṣate paraṁ dṛṣṭvā nivartate
• “The vow of brahmacarya is meant to help • Whereas others are forced to restrain
one completely abstain from sex indulgence themselves from sense gratification,
in work, words and mind – at all times, a devotee of the Lord automatically
under all circumstances and in all places.” (In refrains because of superior taste. Other
the rules of celibacy written by the great than the devotee, no one has
sage Yājñavalkya) any information of that superior taste.
(BG 2.59)

Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur.

 Verses quoted by Srila Prabhupada for BG
6.18
• sa vai manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravindayor  vacāṁsi vaikuṇṭha-guṇānuvarṇane
karau harer mandira-mārjanādiṣu   śrutiṁ cakārācyuta-sat-kathodaye
• mukunda-liṅgālaya-darśane dṛśau   tad-bhṛtya-gātra-sparśe ’ṅga-saṅgamam
ghrāṇaṁ ca tat-pāda-saroja-saurabhe   śrīmat-tulasyā rasanāṁ tad-arpite
• pādau hareḥ kṣetra-padānusarpaṇe  śiro hṛṣīkeśa-padābhivandane
kāmaṁ ca dāsye na tu kāma-kāmyayā  yathottama-śloka-janāśrayā ratiḥ
• “King Ambarīṣa first of all engaged his mind on the lotus feet of Lord
Kṛṣṇa; then, one after another, he engaged his words in describing the
transcendental qualities of the Lord, his hands in mopping the temple of
the Lord, his ears in hearing of the activities of the Lord, his eyes in
seeing the transcendental forms of the Lord, his body in touching the
bodies of the devotees, his sense of smell in smelling the scents of the
lotus flowers offered to the Lord, his tongue in tasting the tulasī leaf
offered at the lotus feet of the Lord, his legs in going to places of
pilgrimage and the temple of the Lord, his head in offering obeisances
unto the Lord, and his desires in executing the mission of the Lord. All
these transcendental activities are quite befitting a pure devotee.”
( Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 9.4.18–20)
Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
 Verses quoted by Srila Prabhupada for BG 6.24

• utsāhān niścayād dhairyāt

tat-tat-karma-pravartanāt
saṅga-tyāgāt sato vṛtteḥ
ṣaḍbhir bhaktiḥ prasidhyati
• “One can execute the process
of bhakti-yoga successfully with
full-hearted enthusiasm,
perseverance and determination,
by following the prescribed
duties in the association of
devotees and by engaging
completely in activities of
goodness.” (Upadeśāmṛta 3)

Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur.

 Verses quoted by
Srila Prabhupada for BG 6.30
• premāñjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena
santaḥ sadaiva hṛdayeṣu vilokayanti
yaṁ śyāmasundaram acintya-guṇa-svarūpaṁ
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
• “I worship the primeval Lord, Govinda, who is
always seen by the devotee whose eyes are
anointed with the pulp of love. He is seen in His
eternal form of Śyāmasundara, situated within
the heart of the devotee.” (Brahma-
saṁhitā 5.38)

Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur.

Verses quoted by Srila Prabhupada for BG 6.31
• dik-kālādy-anavacchinne • eka eva paro viṣṇuḥ
kṛṣṇe ceto vidhāya ca sarva-vyāpī na saṁśayaḥ
tan-mayo bhavati kṣipraṁ aiśvaryād rūpam ekaṁ ca
jīvo brahmaṇi yojayet sūrya-vat bahudheyate
“By concentrating • “Viṣṇu is one, and yet He is
one’s attention on the certainly all-pervading. By
transcendental form of Kṛṣṇa, His inconceivable potency,
who is all- in spite of His one form, He
pervading and beyond time and is present everywhere, as
space, one becomes absorbed the sun appears in many
in thinking of Kṛṣṇa and then places at once.” (smṛti-
attains the happy state of transc śāstra)
endental association with
Him.” (Nārada Pañcarātra)

Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Department of Electrical

Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
 Verses quoted by Srila Prabhupada for BG 6.34
• ātmānaṁ rathinaṁ viddhi
śarīraṁ ratham eva ca
buddhiṁ tu sārathiṁ viddhi
manaḥ pragraham eva ca
• indriyāṇi hayān āhur
viṣayāṁs teṣu gocarān
ātmendriya-mano-yuktaṁ
bhoktety āhur manīṣiṇaḥ
• “The individual is the passenger in the
car of the material body, and
intelligence is the driver. Mind is the
driving instrument, and the senses are
the horses. The self is thus the enjoyer
or sufferer in the association of the
mind and senses. So it is understood by
great thinkers.” (Kaṭha Upaniṣad 1.3.3–
4)

Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur.

 Verses quoted by Srila Prabhupada for BG
6.40
• tyaktvā sva-dharmaṁ caraṇāmbujaṁ harer
bhajann apakvo ’tha patet tato yadi
yatra kva vābhadram abhūd amuṣya kiṁ
ko vārtha āpto ’bhajatāṁ sva-dharmataḥ
• “If someone gives up all material prospects and takes
complete shelter of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, there is no loss or degradation in any way.
On the other hand a nondevotee may fully engage in
his occupational duties and yet not gain anything.”
(Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.5.17) 

Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur.

 Verses quoted by Srila Prabhupada for BG 6.44

• Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (3.33.7)
• aho bata śva-paco ’to garīyān
yaj-jihvāgre vartate nāma tubhyam
tepus tapas te juhuvuḥ sasnur āryā
brahmānūcur nāma gṛṇanti ye te
• “O my Lord! Persons who chant the
holy names of Your Lordship are
far, far advanced in spiritual life,
even if born in families of dog-
eaters. Such chanters have
undoubtedly performed all kinds of
austerities and sacrifices, bathed in
all sacred places and finished all
scriptural studies.”

Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur.

Verses quoted by Srila Prabhupada for BG 6.47

ya eṣāṁ puruṣaṁ sākṣād yasya deve parā bhaktir
ātma-prabhavam īśvaram yathā deve tathā gurau
na bhajanty avajānanti tasyaite kathitā hy arthāḥ
sthānād bhraṣṭāḥ patanty adhaḥ prakāśante mahātmanaḥ
“Anyone who does not render service
and neglects his duty unto “Only unto those great souls who have
the primeval Lord, who is the source of implicit faith in both the Lord and the
all living entities, will certainly fall
down from his constitutional position.” spiritual master are all the imports of
(Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.5.3) Vedic knowledge automatically revealed.”
(Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 6.23)

Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur.