Bhagavad Gita Chapter 8

TRUTH ABOUT YOGA

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Here Kṛṣṇa talks about deep concepts of
yoga. All great truths were told by
different masters in different ways, yet
the truths remain the same. If somebody
who does not know the actual meaning
of yoga reads this verse, he will be
totally confused. Nowadays when
people hear about yoga, they think of
physical exercise, about how to become
slim doing yoga! Yoga has a much
deeper meaning and Kṛṣṇa talks about it.

Yoga means the continuous process of uniting our mind, body and soul. This truth is revealed by great enlightened Masters in different ways. Patañjali, the father of yoga, talks about this verse in his Aṣṭāṅga Yoga, in the two limbs of yoga—pratyāhāra and dhāraṇa. These two parts talk about what Kṛṣṇa mentions.

Illustration of a person meditating in the lotus position with a lotus flower background