यदा विनियतं चित्तम् आत्मन्य् एवावतिष्ठते ॥
निःस्पृहः सर्वकामेभ्यो युक्त इत्य् उच्यते तदा ॥
यथा दीपो निवातस्थो नेङ्गते सोपमा स्मृता ॥
योगिनो यतचित्तस्य युञ्जतो योगम् आत्मनः ॥
यत्रोपरमते चित्तं निरुद्धं योगसेवया ॥
यत्र चैवात्मनात्मानं पश्यन्न् आत्मनि तुष्यति ॥
सुखम् आत्यन्तिकं यत् तद् बुद्धिग्राह्यम् अतीन्द्रियम् ॥
वेत्ति यत्र न चैवायं स्थितश् चलति तत्त्वतः ॥
यं लब्ध्वा चापरं लाभं मन्यते नाधिकं ततः ॥
यस्मिन् स्थितो न दुःखेन गुरुणापि विचाल्यते ॥
तं विद्याद् दुःखसंयोगवियोगं योगसंज्ञितम् ॥
स निश्चयेन योक्तव्यो योगो ऽनिर्विण्णचेतसा ॥
yadā viniyataṃ cittam ātmany evāvatiṣṭhate ||
niḥspṛhaḥ sarvakāmebhyo yukta ity ucyate tadā ||
yathā dīpo nivātastho neṅgate sopamā smṛtā ||
yogino yatacittasya yuñjato yogam ātmanaḥ ||
yatroparamate cittaṃ niruddhaṃ yogasevayā ||
yatra caivātmanātmānaṃ paśyann ātmani tuṣyati ||
sukham ātyantikaṃ yat tad buddhigrāhyam atīndriyam ||
vetti yatra na caivāyaṃ sthitaś calati tattvataḥ ||
yaṃ labdhvā cāparaṃ lābhaṃ manyate nādhikaṃ tataḥ ||
yasmin sthito na duḥkhena guruṇāpi vicālyate ||
taṃ vidyād duḥkhasaṃyogaviyogaṃ yogasaṃjñitam ||
sa niścayena yoktavyo yogo 'nirviṇṇacetasā ||
'When the fully restrained mind abides only in the atman, and the person is free from craving for all desires, then he is called united with yoga. As a lamp standing in a windless place does not flicker — such is the remembered simile for the yogi whose mind is restrained and who practices the yoga of the atman. When the mind, restrained by devotion to yoga, comes to rest; and when, beholding the self by the self, he is satisfied in the self; when he knows that supreme happiness which is graspable by the buddhi and beyond the senses, and, having become established in it, does not deviate from the truth; when, having obtained it, he considers no other gain greater than it, and, abiding in it, is not shaken even by grievous suffering — that state should be known as yoga, disjunction from union with suffering. This yoga must be practiced with resolve, with an undespairing mind.'
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Krishna describes an inner steadiness in which the mind ceases to seek support in outward things. Yoga is called disjunction from suffering not because the world disappears, but because consciousness is no longer bound to its dualities.