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title: "Verse 06.8 | Bhagavad-Gita: 06 - The Yoga of Contemplation - v1.4"
heading: "Bhagavad-Gita: Chapter 06"
subheading: "= 06.8 ="
updated: "2025-02-02T00:00:00+00:00"
words: 
url: https://ananda.icu/trans/bg/06/8
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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jñāna-vijñāna-tṛptātmā
   kūṭastho vijitendriyaḥ |
yukta ity ucyate yogī
   sama-loṣṭāśma-kāñcanaḥ ||8||[↪](/trans/bg/06/8)
Self-satisfied in knowledge and realization,
established at the summit, senses conquered;
This connected one is called a yogi,
Equipoised to clay, rocks, and gold.
Notes: Clay is soft and malleable; rocks are hard and unyielding; and gold is versatile, adaptable, precious, and sought after. Abiding at the summit of self-realization, free of the polarizations born of desire and aversion, every material substance is relegated to a plane of utilitarian neutrality. All things ever are just as they are, each with their respective natural and practical functions. Some of them may be supportive and may be engaged when they fall within our natural allotment, yet none of it is required for ascending into the realization of self-integration and unity. Thus the yogi remains equipoised, independent, sovereign, and impervious to the affects of the world of substances.

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