Krishna: Arjuna, a true yogi is the one who performs the tasks he is responsible for with no desire on results obtained through it. But not the one who just performs religious duties and abandons his responsibilities. Performing tasks without the desire is the tool to meditate. He who doesn’t have material wishes, and abandons desires is a true yogi.
Remember that a person is responsible for himself. He can either become his own friend or enemy. You can experience the divine by not getting effected by happiness or sadness and respect or shame. A yogi should be able to get content with his knowledge and raise above his senses. He sees both sand and gold as same. He doesn’t distinguish between friend, family, enemy, wise and ignorant.
Yogi should have his mind and senses under control, and dwell with himself without any wishes. He should continue his learning with concentration in a clean and flat place. While learning, he should stand with a straight body posture, look straight with concentration, have no traces of fear and should only wish to reach me. Only this will get him to reach my adobe. Remember that only who maintains decorum while eating or roaming or sleeping can attain this Yoga. When a person reaches a state where his concentration on his learnings overcomes all the external and internal desires, then he is destined to become the master of that subject. A yogi can’t be disturbed away from his interests.
The true learning is the peace attained by perusing your interests, the satisfaction attained by realizing the truth within you, finding the best of all sources of happiness, which is available to consciousness but not senses, which is the ultimate destination, which exceeds the gain by large margins than anything else, attaining which takes away from sadness. A man should strive for such learning with dedication.
A yogi should get rid of desires and attain peace. He should be conscious about his wishes and try to move above them. This way, a Yogi with Learning as his objective gets rid of all disturbances and attains a great satisfaction. Then, he can see himself in everything and everything in himself. He stays near to me and I stay near to him. He who sees every living thing as equal to himself and considers happiness, sadness of everyone as his own is the best among all these Yogi’s.
Arjuna: Krishna, keeping mind under control is a tedious task. It can be compared to saving air in a bag.
Krishna: Yes, controlling mind is difficult but nothing is impossible with learning and detachment.
Arjuna: Krishna, what happens to a person who is interested in learning but not able to attain full knowledge due to lack of effort. Will he be lost as a normal person also and earn dishonor to himself?
Krishna: Such a person will only rejoice happiness when he is in this world and after he leaves the world. He who does good won’t be defeated by wicked. He will attain Heaven and will take rebirth in a great house. He shall start his learning from the point where he left in his previous birth and move forward towards perfection. He who keeps his concentration on me and always craves to reach me is the greatest yogi.
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