Abhyasa

The self-uncontrolled one can never attain this.

That is why the Abhyasa Vairagya as the

true two-pronged approach Not one is not enough.

We will see a lot of people doing abhyasa, yoga abhyasa, but they don't have the vairagya, this passion.

Then and there, it has to be Atmani Vasam Nayet.

So, what is

this Abhyasa

and Vairagya

is indicating towards yoga bhrashta by that very previous practice avashaha api even though he has no innate will or involuntary action towards yoga because of the

Purva Abhyasa, the earlier practice, previous practice, he is Hriyate, Saha Hriyate.

Now the word here Hriyate Har Dhatu

is for drawn.

These words reveal something even more

remarkable.

The power of previous life Abhyasa is so great that it draws the Yoga Bhrashta irresistibly towards the Yoga even against his own will, our Sahabi.

The pull of the accumulated Puru Abhyasa is so powerful not merely helpful in guidance but it is an irresistible force that carries the reborn yogi back to the path of yoga and he

Yes, it is hard to control.

But it can be brought under control by practice," or what is called Abhyasa yoga.

Practice.

Sri Krishna always talks about practice.

got their inner

instrument governed or controlled, not only that, Yatata, he is using a word Yatata, means one who strives by the Abhyasa Vairagya.

That is the Upayataha, what he is talking about, through the means.

Avaptum Shakya.

is possible for them to

attain.

So he is continuing the two remedies which has been given to Arjuna as Vaidagya and Abhyasa.

That there is a methodology in which

Abhyasena.

Abhyasa is thorough practice or by means of repeated engagement.

So Abhyasena means Using abhyasa or the practice as an instrument, repeated engagement as an instrument, methodology.

2.

description was bringing by using superlative difficult as a word because he says abhyasena means the act of consistently returning to and engaging with practice repeated practice the abhyasa is the one of the most

Carefully defined terms even in the Patanjali Yoga Sutra.

Patanjali defines it in the Yoga Sutra 113 as, Abhyasa is the effort towards stability, stiti in that yoga.

And he continues that, It becomes firmly established, grounded, when practiced for a long time without interruption, with

the mind of Arjuna.

The question Arjuna sets up in this verse will introduce the twin pillars of Yoga Sadhana, Abhyasa and Vairagya.

In the verse, 35th verse, after Arjuna's question, Krishna will answer that.

Abhyasa means practice.

Vairagya means

dispassion or detachment.

Arjuna is asking, given that this return must be made endlessly, can it ever arrive at a stable establishment

or stira stithi? Krishna's own acknowledgement.

If the mind wanders, bring it again and again to the center or point or object of meditation through constant practice.

Abhyasa.

Abhyasa is constant practice.

Swami Sivananda says, what is fixing the mind of me? This is from the Akena Upanishad.

It is like every moment we remember and we fix the mind on that constantly, all the time.

They use this...

The Sanskrit word is Abhyasa, and it means repetition.

So heart of meditation practice and yoga practice is repetition.

It's coming back again and again, right? Right.