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Yoga (Cont’d)
The purpose of practising eightfold yoga is to control the mind in
order to make it a friend in discharging the human mission. Unless
the mind is controlled, the practice of yoga (for show) is simply a
waste of time. One who cannot control his mind lives always with
the greatest enemy, and thus his life and its mission are spoiled.
- BG 6:6, purport -
No one can perform correct yoga practice through sex indulgence.
- BG 6:13-14, purport -
There is no possibility of one’s becoming a yogé, O Arjuna, if one
eats too much or eats too little, sleeps too much or does not sleep
enough. - BG 6:16 -
He who is regulated in his habits of eating, sleeping, recreation and
work can mitigate all material pains by practising the yoga system.
- BG 6:17 -
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