Dhyana Gita 12: Lord's Assurance

1. Crossing the ocean of calamities: If you firmly fix your mind in Me you will, through My grace, be saved from all calamities [18(57,58)].
   
   
2. Compulsion of Nature: Nature will overpower you and compel you to perform action, in spite of your wish to the contrary [18(59,60)].
   
   
3. Whirling of God's wheel of illusion: Submit with all your being to the Lord, who resides in all beings and whirls them all with his mysterious power [18(61,62)].
   
   
4. Self-surrender: If you surrender all your duties and seek refuge in Me, with all your being, I shall free you from all sins [18(65,66)].
   
   
5. Devotion in the form of imparting the supreme spirit: If you import this Supreme Secret to My devotees, you will be the dearest of all, both in the past as well as in the present [18(68,69)].
   
   
6. Submission of Arjuna: Arjuna's promise to act up to the advise of Sri Krishna [18(72,73)].
   
   
7. A thrilling dialogue: Who will not be filled with wonder and joy, by hearing this thrilling dialogue and seeing this supremely marvelous Form of God? [18(74,76,77)].
   
   
8. Attainment of Victory and Prosperity: Victory and prosperity will surely be there where Krishna -- the Lord of Yoga and Arjuna -- the great archer are present [18(78)].
   
   

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Dhyana Gita 11: Cosmic Vision

1. Longing for the Vision of the Form: Arjuna's longing to see the real form of God [11(3-4)].
   
   
2. Gift of divine vision: God's form cannot be seen without divine vision [11(5-8)].
   
   
3. Vision of the divine form: Supremely wonderful and Lustrous Universal form of God [11(9-12)].
   
   
4. Terrible and marvelous sentiment: The description of the Cosmic form made by Arjuna, full of terrible and marvelous sentiment [11(15-31)].
   
   
5. Slain already: God is all-powerful; He has slain the heroes of the enemy already [11(32-34)].
   
   
6. Mingling of joy and fear: Mingling of joy and fear in the heart of Arjuna [11(45)].
   
   
7. Entrance into the universal form: It is only through single-minded devotion that devotees like Arjuna can enter into the Universal Form of the Lord [11(47,48), 11(53,54)].
   
   

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Dhyana Gita 10: Yoga of Devotion

1. Nature of worship:
   
   
   
   1. The worship of the unmanifested is very troublesome [12(1-5)].
      
   2. Those who work for me and meditate on Me with single-minded devotion will soon be taken by Me across the ocean of worldly existence [12(6,7)].
      
   
   
   
2. Crossing the cosmic illusion:
   
   
   
   1. Absolute surrender to Me alone is the means of crossing my Maya (Illusion) consisting of three Gunas [7(13,14)].
      
   2. Several persons have become one with Me till now, by giving up passion, fear, and anger, by purifying themselves through the penance of knowledge and by taking refuge in Me [4(10)].
      
   3. The wicked cannot surrender to Me [7(15)].
      
   4. Only those in whose sin has vanished is born devotion for Me [7(28)].
      
   5. Even a vile man endowed with intense devotion and right resolve, can become Sage [9(30,31)].
      
   6. My devotees belonging to any race, caste, class and class, are equally dear to Me [9(32,33)].
      
   7. Persons desperately calling on Me for liberation from old-age and death, can alone realize Me [7(29)].
      
   
   
   
3. Joy from glorification of God:
   
   
   
   1. Those persons are the great souls, who know Me to be the source of all beings and constantly glorify Me with an undistracted mind [9(13,14)].
      
   2. He who always meditates on Me with an undivided mind, can attain Me quite easily [8(14)].
      
   3. Knowing that I am the origin of all, they are filled with devotion and with their minds fixed on Me, they are absorbed in one anothers' bliss [10(8-9)].
      
   
   
   
4. Union of God and devotee:
   
   
   
   1. To such a devout Yogi I show the path of intellect -- I give a particular bent to his intellect and volition and with the object of showing compassion, enkindle the lamp of Atman before him [10(10,11)].
      
   2. I bear the burden of acquisition and preservation of those who worship Me with constancy and single-mindedness [9(12)].
      
   
   
   
5. The devotee is the crest-jewel of the wise:
   
   
   
   1. Of the four types of devotees, the realized devotee who worships Me with one-pointed devotion, is the best [7(16-18)].
      
   2. The realized devotee visualizes the whole world as God [7(19)].
      
   
   
   
6. Entrance into God:
   
   
   
   1. If you place your mind and intellect in Me, you will have residence in Me alone [12(8)].
      
   2. After the seeker realizes My nature through intense morality, meditation and supreme devotion, he can get entrance into Me [18(51-55)].
      
   
   
   

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Dhyana Gita 9: Yoga of Meditation

1. Synthesis of the four paths: Meditation, Knowledge, Action and Devotion -- these are the four paths leading to God [13(24-25)].
   
   
2. Steadiness of Posture: The Yogi who sits in a steady posture in solitude and worships Me with a fixed mind, attains the supreme peace and bliss of Mine [6(10),6(11-15)].
   
   
3. Restraints and regulations:
   
   
   
   1. Practice and dispassion: Restraint of the supremely fickle mind is impossible without practice of dispassion [6(33-36)].
      
   2. The fire of self-control: Some offer the objects as oblations in the fire of senses and others offer senses and oblations in the fire of self-control [4(26,27)].
      
   3. Temperate food, sleep and recreation: He alone who is temperate in his food , sleep and recreation, can accomplish Yoga [6(16,17)].
      
   4. Equality of happiness and sorrow: The yogi who regards cold and heat, pleasure and pain, friend and foe alike, finds God to be quite in his vicinity [6(7-9)].
      
   5. Disgust: Let your mind feel disgusted for what is heard (or seen) and what is to be heard (or seen), and remains steady in Samadhi [2(52-53)].
      
   
   
   
4. Equality of inhalation and exhalation: A steady gaze at the middle of the eye-brows, equality of Prana and Apana, Restraints and Regulations, and Passionate devotion for the Lord -- these are the means of Liberation [5(27-28)].
   
   
5. Withdrawal, concentration and meditation: Through utter disgust (for the world) we should gradually turn our mind away from desires and make it steady in the Atman [6(23-26)].
   
   
6. The Lamp of Samadhi: He may be called a Yogi, whose mind remains steady in the Atman like a lamp undisturbed by the wind [6(19)].
   
   
7. Vision of the Atman: Realization of the Atman [6(20)].
   
   
8. Bliss is Brahman:
   
   
   
   1. The supreme bliss which a Yogi attains through the vision of the Atman, cannot be dislodged from him even by a stupendous sorrow [6(21,22)].
      
   2. The supreme Bliss enjoyed by a Yogi means Self-realization [6(27,28)].
      
   
   
   
9. Attainment of the bliss of Brahman everywhere: Brahman hovers about one who has experienced the bliss of Aman within [5(24-26)].
   
   
10. Vision of God everywhere: Such a Yogi experiences the Vision of Equality in both the ways [6(29-32)].
    
    
11. Combination of Yoga and Devotion: A yogi is superior to a man of knowledge as well a man of action; and a Yogi full of devotion is superior to all other Yogis [6(46,47)].
    

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Dhyana Gita 8: Yoga of Knowledge

1. Annihilation of Action:
   
   
   
   1. What is the highest knowledge? Sri Bhagavan said: I shall fully explain to you both knowledge of the Self and of the Cosmos by learning which nothing more shall remain to be known here [7(2)].
      
   2. Sacrifice in the form of knowledge is superior to all other sacrifices, for all actions culminate in knowledge [4(33)].
      
   3. The fire of knowledge burns all fuel of actions [4(37)].
      
   4. He alone deserves the epithet of a sage, who has burnt all his actions with the fire of knowledge [4(19)].
      
   5. Since doubt is the cause of ruin, he who attains Self-knowledge beyond doubt, is alone free from bonds of action [4(40-41)].
      
   
   
   
2. Self-knowledge, very difficult for man:
   
   
   
   1. The river of Yoga disappears and appears again after a lapse of time [4(2,3)].
      
   2. Rare is the man who has realized God [7(3)].
      
   3. Time is required for acheiving perfection in Yoga as well as for the complete assimilation of that all-purifying Self-knowledge [4(38)].
      
   
   
   
3. Initiation in Knowledge: You can know the path of Knowledge from the realized seers, through humble service [4(34)].
   
   
4. The beginning of knowledge: [Even the beginning of this Yoga will put an end to grear fear.] When once we begin to tread the Path of Knowledge, it will enable us to reach perfection -- our goal -- without any obstacles [2(40)].
   
   
5. Attainment of the supreme person:
   
   
   
   1. Through one-pointed devotion it is possible to attain the all-pervading Almighty God [8(21-22)].
      
   2. He alone merges in God, who realizes that God is the source and abode of all things [8(30)].
      
   3. That knowledge will remove the darkness of your delusion and will enable you to perceive all the beings in the Atman [4(35)].
      
   4. The night of the common people is the day for the wise [2(69)].
      
   
   
   
6. Vision of equality: He who attains equality in the vision of God, can alone be entitled to the epithet of a realized Seer [13(27-28)].
   
   
7. Attainment of supermoralism:
   
   
   
   1. Even if you are the foremost of all the sinners, you will cross over all the sins by the raft of divine knowledge [4(36)].
      
   2. Unlimited is the merit in the form of this knowledge [8(28)].
      
   
   
   

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Dhyana Gita 7: Yoga of Action

1. Transcendence of actions:
   
   
   
   1. Renunciation of fruits and attachment: We must perform all actions with an equanimous mind, by giving up the desire for fruit as well as attachment [2(47,48)].
      
   2. Equanimity in success in failure: He who remains satisfied with whatever he gets by chance and who treats success and failure alike is not affected by actions [4(22)].
      
   3. Holy actions: We must give up attachment and fruits even while performing holy actions [18(5-6)].
      
   4. Bodily actions (permission as an only expectation): If we perform bodily actions alone without any expectation, we will not be affected by their sins [4(21)].
      
   5. We cannot completely abandon our actions, so long as we possess our body [18(11)].
      
   6. If we practise the Yoga of action like King Janaka, we contribute to the social welfare as well [3(20-21)].
      
   7. Attainment of actionlesssness: Renunciation brings about the attachment of actionlessness [18(49)].
      
   
   
   
2. The Vedic teaching confined to three Gunas Only:
   
   
   
   1. The lovers of Vedas attached to enjoyment and splendor, cannot keep their intellects in steady contemplation [2(42-44)].
      
   2. As the Vedas are confined to the three Gunas, he who is eager to attain the state of actionless, should give up the desire for acquisition and preservation, and fix his mind on the Atman [2(45)].
      
   3. The Vedas are like a well, while Atman is like an ocean enveloping it [2(46)].
      
   
   
   
3. Keep the wheel of sacrifice moving:
   
   
   
   1. Sacrifice is free from bonds of action [3(9)].
      
   2. Even though sacrifice is a Cow of plenty, we must first offer to God, and what He has granted us, and accept only what is left over [3(10-13)].
      
   3. To taste the nectar of the remains of a sacrifice means attachment of the Absolute [4(31)].
      
   4. Sinful is the person who will not push forward this wheel moving from times immemorial [3(16)].
      
   5. As all the five items of sacrifice partake of the nature of the absolute, sacrifice is free from the bonds of the action [4(23), 4(24)].
      
   
   
   
4. Attainment of God:
   
   
   
   1. We can even attain God if we perform our actions without attachment [3(19)].
      
   2. By depositing all your actions in Me, you can even carry on your fight with an attitude of detachment [3(30)].
      
   3. With the flowers of action, we should worship the Lord from whom all the beings proceed and multiply [18(46)].
      
   4. Work with the hands and meditate upon the Lord Hari [5(8-10)].
      
   5. What remains for one who enjoys the bliss of the Atman [3(17)].
      
   
   
   

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Dhyana Gita 6: Bunch of Virtues

1. Individual virtues:
   
   
   
   1. Self-control: One's self alone is one's brother. One's self alone is one's enemy [6(5-6)].
      
   2. Single-mindedness: The reason of the resolute is one-pointed, while that of the irresolute branches out in many ways [2(41)].
      
   3. Endurance: Cold and heat, pleasure and pain are fleeting. Therefore, they should be endured [2(14-15)].
      
   4. Non-lamentation: [2(28)].
      
   5. Equality of vision: [5(18,19)].
      
   
   
   
2. Social virtues:
   
   
   
   1. Triple penance: Penance of the body speech and mind [17(14-16)].
      
   2. Devotion to duty: The duties enjoined upon the four varnas according to their Gunas [18(41-45)].
      
   3. We must perform our own duty even at the cost of our life [3(35)].
      
   4. Divine heritage: The characteristic of the divine heritage [16(1-3)].
      
   5. Demoniac heritage: The characteristics of the demonaic heritage [16(4)].
      
   6. Detailed description of the persons belonging to the demoniac heritage [16(7-20)].
      
   7. Liberation and bondage: Divine heritage leads to liberation and demoniac heritage to bondage [16(5)].
      
   8. Virtue is Knowledge: Concourse of virtue itself is Knowledge [13(7-11)].
      
   9. Culmination of virtues in devotion: Fix the gems of virtues in the socket of Devotion [12(13-19)].
      
   
   
   
3. Characteristics of an equanimous man:
   
   
   
   1. Steady intellect: He alone is equanimous man who is engrossed in the bliss of the Atman, by abandoning passion, fear and wrath [2(54-57)].
      
   2. The state of the tortoise: He alone is an equanimous man who withdraws his senses and mind like a tortoise and steadily stays in Me [2(58-60)].
      
   3. Control of a boat: He alone is an equanimous man who stabilizes his mind-boat floating headlong along with the rushing current of the senses [2(67-68)].
      
   4. The poise of an ocean: The mental ocean of the wise does not overflow with the inflow of the streams of desire [2(70)].
      
   
   

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Dhyana Gita 5: Destruction of the Arch-Enemy

1. The amnion of desire: The enemy of desire envelops knowledge and impels even the wise to commit sin [3(36-39)].
   
   
2. Seats of desire: Let the mind wander but not the body [3(40-41)].
   
   
3. Hypocrisy: Mentally brooding over the objects of sense, by controlling the senses, is also a sin [3(6)].
   
   
4. Sorties of passions: The chains of evils arising from the unrestrained musing on the objects of sense [2(62-63)].
   
   
5. The supreme transcendence of the Atman: This enemy of desire cannot be destroyed except through self-knowledge [3(42-43)].
   
   
6. Disappearance of relish: Even though the sense objects turn away, the relish for them remains; it cannot be destroyed without the vision of God [2(59)].
   
   
7. The joy of clear vision: Self control lends a clear vision which in its turn grants peace and peace brings bliss [2(64-66)].
   
   
8. The supreme goal: A man who is freed from desire (lust), anger and avarice, achieves his spiritual welfare and attains the Highest Ideal [16(21-22)].
   

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Dhyana Gita 4: Transcendence of the Three Gunas

1. The bond of the Gunas: The nature of Sattva, Rajas and Tamas and their bondage [14(5-8)].
   
   
2. The growth of the Gunas: The growth of Sattva, Rajas and Tamas and its results [14(11-13),14(18)].
   
   
3. The function of the three Gunas:
   
   
   
   1. Knowledge: Three kinds of Knowledge [18(20-22)].
      
   2. Happiness: Three kinds of happiness [18(37-39)].
      
   3. Intellect: Three kinds of intellect [18(30-32)].
      
   4. Doer: Three kinds of doer [18(26-28)].
      
   5. Food: Three kinds of food [17(8-10)].
      
   6. Penance: Three kinds of penance [17(17-19)].
      
   7. Charity: Three kinds of charity [17(20-22)].
      
   8. Renunciation: Three kinds of renunciation [18(7-9)].
      
   
   
   
4. Predominance of Gunas:
   
   
   
   1. Even wise men are required to behave in conformity with nature only [3(33)].
      
   2. There is no object in these three worlds, which is not caught up in the three Gunas [18(40)].
      
   
   
   
5. Transcendence of the triple Gunas: This transcendence can be attained only through unswerving Yoga of Devotion [14(20), 14(24-26)].
   
   

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Dhyana Gita 3: Nature of the Self

1. Stay and departure:
   
   
   
   1. I am Myself assuming the form of the Self in this world, with a single spark of Mine [15(7)].
      
   2. The stay and departure of the Self is directly visualized by the wise sages and the yogis [15(8-11)].
      
   
   
   
2. Memory of past births: You don't remember the past births while I do [4(5)].
   
   
3. Death is a mere change:
   
   
   
   1. Like childhood, youth and old-age death also is a change in the body [2(11-13)].
      
   2. The soul abandons the old bodies and puts on new ones [2(22)].
      
   
   
   
4. Thought determines the future:
   
   
   
   1. He who meditates on God with undivided mind as a result of constant practise, at the time of death, reaches the form Divine [8(8-10), 8(12,13)].
      
   2. The last thoughts decide the next birth [8(6)].
      
   
   
   
5. Non-return:
   
   
   
   1. There is no further worldly existence for those who are solely attached and devoted to God [5(17)].
      
   2. The sages who attain My likeness as a result of this superior wisdom, are not caught in the whirl of creation and dissolution [14(2)].
      
   3. None can return to this miserable worldly existence when once they merge in Me [8(15)].
      
   4. He who remains in this state of God-realization at the time of death alone attains Divine-bliss [2(72)].
      
   
   
   
6. Perfection through many lives: He who has faith but cannot put forth requisite effort, can attain perfection by taking right birth [6(37,38), 6(40-45)].
   

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Dhyana Gita 2: Nature of the Absolute

1. Imperishable:
   
   
   
   1. The Reality is imperishable - immortal; It has brought forth all this extension (universe) [2(16,17)].
      
   2. The Atman is not born; neither does He kill, nor die [2(19,20)].
      
   3. The Atman is neither cut by the weapons, nor burnt by fire [2(23,24)].
      
   
   
   
2. Uncontaminated: Atman is uncontaminated like ether [13(32)].
   
   
3. Illuminating: The Atman illuminates all the objects like the sun [13(33)].
   
   
4. Non-doer:
   
   
   
   1. The Atman transcends the five senses of action; He is absolute and non-doer [18(13-16)].
      
   2. The Lord does not connect actions with their fruits; not does he accept the merit and sin (of the people) [5(14,15)].
      
   3. Non-enjoyer: The supreme person, who is a witness and sustainer, but not an enjoyer, may be called the supreme person [13(22)].
      
   4. Unknowable: That which is far and near, within and without, which has its eyes and ears everywhere -- that alone is the highest object of knowledge [13(12-17)].
      
   5. The greatest wonder of all wonders: Who has known God who is all wonder? [2(29)].
      
   
   

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Dhyana Gita 1: Nature of God

1. Supreme Person:
   
   
   
   1. We should cut down the Ashvatta (tree of creation) with the sword of detachment and begin our search for the supreme person [15(1-4)].
      
   2. The Perishable, the Imperishable and the Supreme Person [15(16-18)].
      
   
   
   
2. The Thread: I am the Thread passing through all the existences and souls. [7(4-7)].
   
   
3. Mellifluous Essence (rasa) (taste, essence and bliss): Universal immanence of God in the form of qualities and seed [7(8-12)].
   
   
4. The Highest Individual and Supreme Spirit: I am the individual and the supreme spirit, immanent in all existences and it is I who illumine the sun and the moon [15(12-14)].
   
   
5. The Sacrifice: I am sacrifice and the sacrificer; I am the father and the mother; I am the abode and the goal; I am the goal and the Giver and remover of things [9(16-19)].
   
   
6. The Great Artificer: As I create around Me a camouflage,through my supernatural power of Yoga, no one is able to know me [7(24-26)].
   
   
7. Divine Incarnation: When righteousness declines and unrighteousness reigns supreme, God is required to take a birth to protect the good and destroy the wicked [4(6-8)].
   
   
8. The Absolutely Transcendent Being: Everything that is endowed with strength, glory and splendor, is the product of a spark of My lustre [10(41,42)].
   

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