Verse 6.19

Verse 6.19: “‘Like a lamp in windless region that flickers not’—such is the simile declared for the man of Discipline who has curbed his mind, and is practising concentration on the Self (357)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

When the regulated activism joins hands with the study of ‘Yoga’, the body becomes the very holy place “Prayaga”, and one who steadies his mind in such a body, with the firm determination not to leave it till the body meets its fall, should be called by you as one “steadied in the ‘Yoga’ Discipline,” and I say further, as the occasion demands it, that such a one, steadied in the ‘Yoga’ Discipline, is compared to a lamp-flame in a breezeless region. Now reading your mind, I shall tell you one thing more and do hear it attentively. In your mind, you wish for success with the study of ‘Yoga’, and yet are not prepared to undergo the hardships of that study. Why? What is the difficulty about it, that you should be afraid of? O Partha, you need not entertain in your mind any such fear in the least. These wicked organs are for no reason ever creating a goblin (to frighten you). Does not the tongue rebelling against its noxious enemy, even refuse an efficacious and divine medicine that has got the power of (holding out) longevity and of bringing back the very departing soul? Even so, the senses always feel troublesome, in doing such actions as help the attainment of the greatest good! Otherwise, nothing is so simple as (success in the study of) ‘Yoga’.