ज्ञानविज्ञानतृप्तात्मा कूटस्थो विजितेन्द्रियः।युक्त इत्युच्यते योगी समलोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनः ॥

Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.

• 6.1The Blessed Lord said: He who performs his bounden duty without depending on the fruits of his actions—he is a sannyasi and a yogi, not he who is without fire and without action.
• 6.2Do you, O Arjuna, know that Yoga is what they call renunciation; no one indeed becomes a Yogi who has not renounced their thoughts.
• 6.3For a sage who wishes to attain to Yoga, action is said to be the means; for the same sage who has attained Yoga, inaction is said to be the means.
• 6.4When a person is not attached to the sense-objects or to actions, having renounced all thoughts, then they are said to have attained Yoga.
• 6.5One should raise oneself by one's own self alone; let not one lower oneself; for the self alone is one's own friend, and the self alone is one's own enemy.
• 6.6The Self is the friend of the self of him by whom the Self has been conquered; but to the unconquered self, this Self stands in the position of an enemy, like an external foe.
• 6.7The Supreme Self of him who is self-controlled and peaceful remains balanced in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, as well as in honor and dishonor.

• 6.8The Yogi who is satisfied with the knowledge and wisdom of the Self, who has conquered the senses, and to whom a clod of earth, a piece of stone, and gold are all the same, is said to have attained Nirvikalpa Samadhi.

• 6.9He who is of the same mind towards the good-hearted, friends, enemies, the indifferent, the neutral, the hateful, the relatives, the righteous, and the unrighteous, excels.

iti

thus

sama

looks equally

yogī

a yogi

aśhma

stone

jñāna

knowledge

uchyate

is said

yuktaḥ

one who is in constant communion with the Supreme

vijñāna

realized knowledge, wisdom from within

loṣhṭra

pebbles

kāñchanaḥ

gold

kūṭa-sthaḥ

undisturbed

tṛipta ātmā

one fully satisfied

vijita-indriyaḥ

one who has conquered the senses