God

A person who can rise above the feelings of ownership, arrogance & desire of wealth & lives a desireless life, gains true peace.

This shloka of geeta says:

A sage thinks that the wealth which I think is mine is actually not mine. God owns it, because she is the one who controls these, not me. That proves that she is the owner of these things, not me. So she can do whatever she wants with them. I should use her things for her service only. I should not use it for my own pleasure. By thinking this way he loses his addiction, ownership tendency toward wealth and arrogance of being wealthy.

He also believes that his body, soul, mind, senses are also not his own, they are God’s, so he also belongs to God. and he should act that way.

By thinking this way he loses attachment and desire of all material things and wipes away any arrogancy related to them and reaches eternal peace.

ocean

The person in whose life things come like rivers joining ocean, without creating any change, gets peace, others don’t.

This shloka of geeta says:

Sages are like ocean, they live a social life hence rhey have to come in touch with every thing. But their attitude makes the difference.

Just like rivers join ocean, they pour down their water in it, sometimes in huge amount and sometimes very little, but the ocean remains unchanged. It doesnot dries up without their water or gets flooded by their extra water. It maintains its calm, stability.

Like ocean, sages come in touch with every thing but they are nonchalant towards them, they just don’t care if they are there or not. Its irrelevant to them whether they are flooded with them or don’t get even the minimum. They stay content with the things which they have within themselves. Their soul and stable belief in God. Naturally they get peace. And those who cant attain the stability of ocean, cant get above the attraction of materials fail to gain peace.

Ordinary people are in dark about God, spiritual welfare. Sages are in dark about material world, its pleasures.

To a family man consciousness means gathering material things, things which will give him a more prosperous, secured life. This is his awakening, his day, his real world. He is completely in dark about God and his own spiritual welfare. He is asleep about them, they don’t exist to him.

But to a sage God and his spiritual welfare is the light, daytime, he stays awake in these needs, that is, strives for these things. He is completely asleep about his material welfare.. property, money etc. They don’t hold any importance to him because they are fickle to him. They are illusion to him. Illusions which try to keep him away from his spiritual welfare, surrendering to God. hence he is in dark about them.

So the side of mind which is asleep in social man (god and spiritual self) is awake in sage, and the side of mind which is awake in family man (material world, money etc) is asleep in the sage.

controlled senses

A person whose senses are not controlled by his mind can never reach true happiness or peace, nor can he devote himself to God.

Karmayogi should control his mind, otherwise he will form attachments to his work or outcomes and slip.

A sadhak whose senses are under his control is free of love or hate. He neither loves or hates the outcome of his services. He is completely nonchalant to his success or failure and thus happy.

He enjoys the material world without love or hate, as a result a deep peace and happiness comes over him. And when he overcomes even this feeling he reaches God. his heart is surrendered to God.

controlling senses

Thinking too much about pleasure causes obsession, desire, anger, loss of wit, memory & wisdom, finally ends in destruction.

The way too much attachment to material world destroys us is very beautifully explained in this Geeta Shloka. As per it:

When a person is immersed in materialistic pleasures he forms attraction towards them.

That attraction creates desire, the eagerness to enjoy them more and more.

When that desire is not satisfied anger forms, anger blinds the vision.

Due to this lack of vision a person acts blindly and loses his wits.

Once he loses his wits his wisdom also follows and his destruction becomes inevitable.

Karmayogi

Desert the desire for outcome, treat success and failure in the same way, perform with an nonchalance toward success and failure.

This is the explanation of a karmayogi.. a person who has achieved God through work/service. So whatever explanation will come to your mind, always remember that the person related is always living in society (you can think about mother teresa).

A karmayogi is never worried about being hurt, when he is working he is nonchalant toward obstruction in his works, insult, failure, negative outcomes. These things don’t make any effect on him.

His only purpose behind performing is helping others, benefit of others. He never performs for his own well being, comfort or luxury. His only goal is to complete his work properly. Due to this nonselfish attitude toward work his heart is always full of pleasure and no adversity can bring him down.

When he is receiving happiness through work, then too he is nonchalant.. rewards, successful completion, victory, honour.. these things don’t overwhelm him, he just stays as calm as he was during adverse moments.

A karmayogi never regrets or feels bad about adversity and he never looks forward towards positive outcomes or applauds. He just remains calm, happy and nonchalant.

That is where he shines over normal human beings, who are moved by both adversity and success.

This is why it is said that his wisdom is stable. Because there is only one feeling residing him.. feeling of peace, calm and happiness.. no matter what his surroundings are. His wisdom is completely laid on God, within God. he realizes that the entire universe is a part of God and everything else is forever changing, so he lays his wisdom on God and faces the world as an everchanging phenomenon. That is why he is so calm, happy and peaceful.

yog

What is Yog as per Shreemadbhagvat:

Yoga means the end of pursuing the means of physical welfare or pleasure (which are termed as the reason behind suffering) and creating a permanent connection (yog) with God.

That is the natural thing, the pursuing of physical pleasure by human beings is not the real human self (its called maya), the real human self is being stable in God.

So snapping off the connection with maya and connecting permanently with God is called Yog.

This permanent connection if achieved through work/service then it is named as Karmayog.

If it is achieved through knowledge then it is gyanyog.

If it is achieved through love for God then it is bhaktiyog.

If it is achieved through harmonisation of world then it is called layayog.

If it is achieved through pranayam then it is hathayog and

If it is done through self control etc then it is called ashtangayog.