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title: "Verse 06.35 | Bhagavad-Gita: 06 - The Yoga of Contemplation - v1.4"
heading: "Bhagavad-Gita: Chapter 06"
subheading: "= 06.35 ="
updated: "2025-02-02T00:00:00+00:00"
words: 
url: https://ananda.icu/trans/bg/06/35
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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śrī-bhagavān uvāca
asaṁśayaṁ mahā-bāho
   mano durṇigrahaṁ calam |
abhyāsena tu kaunteya
   vairāgyeṇa ca gṛhyate ||35||[↪](/trans/bg/06/35)
The illustrious one said:
Without a doubt, mighty-armed one,
the mind is hard to conquer and fickle;
But with repeated training, son of Kunti,
and with dispassion, it is tamed.
Notes: In conquering the untamed mind, two primary means are deployed. Positive effort, _abhyāsa_, is repeated and persistent training — reconditioning of the mind, relentless infusion of proper behavioral and cognitive patterns, progressive reprogramming of our neural pathways, the establishment of a reformed internal order. Negative effort, _vairāgya_, is detachment and dispassion, distancing of the self from the objects of the mind's craving, and beyond that, indifference to the resistance, pleading, defiance, negotiating, rebellion, despondency, etc. brought forward by the mind-in-training. Through persuasive training and detachment, in due time the mind is domesticated.

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