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title: "Verse 06.3 | Bhagavad-Gita: 06 - The Yoga of Contemplation - v1.4"
heading: "Bhagavad-Gita: Chapter 06"
subheading: "= 06.3 ="
updated: "2025-02-02T00:00:00+00:00"
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url: https://ananda.icu/trans/bg/06/3
description: "The sixth chapter of Bhagavad-Gita explores dhyana-yoga, the path of union through contemplative practice. It discusses the state and effects of yoga, literally union, and the practices and path of the yogi, the contemplator on a quest for that union."
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ārurukṣor muner yogaṁ
   karma kāraṇam ucyate |
yogārūḍhasya tasyaiva
   śamaḥ kāraṇam ucyate ||3||[↪](/trans/bg/06/3)
For the sage keen to attain union,
action is said to be the means;
For the one elevated in union,
equanimity is said to be the means.
Notes: The word _karma_ indicates a spectrum of active engagement, both practical works and contemplative practices, through which the senses and mind of the contemplator are captured and brought under the control of the underlying self. This is the initial practice. The word _śamaḥ_ indicates "equanimity" relative to the world of action, an internal abiding where the phenomenal world is abstracted into an inner sphere of contemplation and cultivation, where the plurality of phenomena are distilled into the unity of yoga. This is the advanced practice.

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