Yoga By S. Sankaran
Yoga By S. Sankaran Preface: The purpose of the article is to bring out the tenets of yoga as explained by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita. There are eighteen chapters in the Bhagavad Gita and at the end of every chapter, the title of the chapter is narrated as under: ‘Thus, in the Upanishad of the Bhagavad Gita containing the dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjuna, ends the chapter titled ‘yoga of …..(name of the subject being mentioned)’. By this, one can very much understand that yoga is the main link of the entire message of Lord Krishna. Lord Krishna is praised as the Lord of Yoga in the Bhagavad Gita. The words – yoga, yogam and yogins – are mentioned on the whole in the Bhagavad Gita in 76 stanzas of which the maximum number of 29 stanzas is confined to Chapter 6 – Yoga of Meditation. This goes to show that yoga and meditation or to be precise – yoga and mind have a direct bearing between them. Hence, it is to be understood that yoga is