This is again a very important verse from the sixth chapter of the Mahapurana, The Geeta.
Krishna is talking about “Yoga of Self-control” in this (sixth) chapter. The biggest control is the self control; to control and cease the mind from wandering here and there. The mind is very delicate and utmost powerful. It is fooling around you since centuries. Though you being the Master, are serving as a slave to your mind. You immediately follow what your mind says. Have you thought about not listening to your mind and giving orders to it instead? The day you start getting control on your mind, you initiate your first step towards spirituality. Spirituality is nothing but living in the correct way, to be simple and to understand oneself. Being simple is being spiritual; nothing less nothing more. People all over the world do all sorts of absurd and nonsensical activities in the name of spirituality. This is due to ignorance and lack of understanding. There is nothing to be borrowed or to be achieved. All is within you. This is not easy to understand. You yourself have the most unique and countless collections of powers, gems, energies within you. The only thing is to accept yourself as you are. Discontinue the identification process with the world. Accept your nature and your emotions as it is. This leads to being simple. This is the whole process. Nothing else is needed.
In the above verse, Krishna is talking about devotion and offering yourself completely to him. The day you start believing Krishna from full heart and accept himself as the charioteer of your life, as he was for Arjuna in Mahabharata, you will conquer the final purpose of this world. He will take care of your life onwards.
Krishna says “He who sees me everywhere and all me, I am not lost to him, nor he is lost to Me.” This means that if you trust him and let him lead your life, he will do the rest for you. Dedicate all your breaths, karmas (actions), struggles to him. Seeing him everywhere means believing that he is omnipresent. Understanding that, he is everywhere. All comes, survives and ends in him. He is the only start, he is the process and he is the only end. Those who perceive and live by the above thought will never lose him nor is he lost to them. He is present everywhere for them. Krishna is responsible for all the actions of his bhaktas (disciples). See him everywhere and you will find him everywhere!!
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Sri Krishna tells Arjuna that a sannyasi and a yogi are one, “He who does his duty with no expectation of the fruit of action is at once a sannyasi and a yogi. O Arjuna, no one becomes a yogi who has not renounced his selfish purpose.” (6.1-2) Here Krishna describes the nature of a Yogi, “A yogi has conquered his lower self and has attained the calm of self-mastery. He is at peace in cold and heat, in pleasure and pain, in honour and dishonour. For him a clod, a stone, and a piece of gold are the same. He is equal-minded among friends, companions, and foes, among saints and sinners.” (6.5-9)
The disciplines that a yogi must undertake in order to realise the Supreme Self are specified by Sri Krishna. He also tells Arjuna for whom Yoga is meant. “Arjuna, Yoga is neither for an epicure, nor for him who does not eat at all, neither for him who sleeps overmuch, nor for him who is endlessly awake.” (6.16-17) Krishna defines a perfect Yogi, “O Arjuna, a yogi whether in pleasure or in pain, established in oneness, sees Me everywhere and sees all in Me and worships Me is considered a perfect yogi.”
Now Arjuna asks Krishna, “How can one achieve evenness of mind when the mind is very difficult to control just like the wind?"
Krishna says, “Without doubt, O Arjuna, the mind is restless and difficult to curb, but it can be controlled by constant practice and non-attachment.” (6.35) On hearing this Arjuna asks a very significant question, “Though endowed with faith, a man who has failed to subdue his passion and whose mind is wandering away from Yoga (at the time of passing away) and who fails to attain perfection, that is, God-realisation, what fate does he meet with. Does he not meet with destruction like a rent cloud? He is deprived of both God-realisation and world-pleasure. His fate has deluded him in the path of Yoga. He has nowhere to go. He has nothing to stand upon.” (6.37-38)
Sri Krishna enlightens Arjuna thus, “O Arjuna, no fall is there for him either in this world or in the world beyond. The path of woe is not for him who does good and who strives for self-realisation.” (6.40) Krishna also says that he who falls from the path of Yoga in this life enters into a blessed and hallowed house in his next life to continue his spiritual journey. He regains all the spiritual progress he had made in the previous incarnation, and with this as the starting point he strives again for perfection.
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