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title: "Verse 06.6 | Bhagavad-Gita: 06 - The Yoga of Contemplation - v1.4"
heading: "Bhagavad-Gita: Chapter 06"
subheading: "= 06.6 ="
updated: "2025-02-02T00:00:00+00:00"
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url: https://ananda.icu/trans/bg/06/6
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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bandhur ātmātmanas tasya
   yenātmaivātmanā jitaḥ |
anātmanas tu śatrutve
   vartetātmaiva śatruvat ||6||[↪](/trans/bg/06/6)
The self is the friend of the self for one
who has conquered the self with the self;
But enmity is there in the one not-as-self —
for him the self remains an enemy indeed.
Notes: When the mind has been tamed, with the self cleansed from its enmeshment in finite conditions, this refined self is the friend of the yogi — a luminous and resourceful collaborator in the great work of unification. For the one dwelling not-as-self, there is enmity both internal and interactive. Internal, with endless conflicting and self-defeating desires, and external, where other sentient beings are inherently at odds with the agendas of the fractured self. For one who has mastered the self, however, there is an ancient and ever-present friend within every vessel of embodied consciousness.

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