How to practise Yoga and what are its outcomes?

·         One should engage oneself in the practice of yoga with determination without deviation.
One should abandon completely, all desires born of mental speculation and regulate all the senses on all sides by the mind.

·         Gradually one should be held by intelligence, carried by conviction, and be placed in the Self, making the mind not think of anything else.

·         From wherever the mind wanders due to its flickering and unsteady nature, one must certainly withdraw it and bring it back under the control of the self.

·         Supreme Bliss comes to this yogi alone whose mind has become peaceful, whose (quality of) rajas has been eliminated, who has become identified with Brahman, and is freed from all past sinful reactions.

·         Thus constantly engaged in the Self, the yogi becomes free from all material contamination and achieves the highest stage of perfect happiness being in blissful contact with Brahman.

·         A yoga-yukta-ātmā sees everywhere with equality. He sees my-self in every living being and all living beings in me.

·         For one who sees Me everywhere and sees everything in Me, I am never lost, nor is he ever lost to Me.

·         He who worships me as present in everyone's heart, is in oneness with me.
That yogi remains fixed in me in spite of being in all circumstances.

·         A yogi who by comparing his Self sees equally everywhere, in happiness and distress, he is considered to be perfect.

·         It is undoubtedly difficult to restrain the flickering mind, but by proper practice and detachment the mind can be controlled.

·         My conviction is that Yoga is difficult to attain by one an uncontrolled mind.
But it is possible to be attained through the appropriate means by one who strives and has a controlled mind.

·         There is certainly no ruin for him here or hereafter. For, anyone who is engaged in good activities, does not go to degradation.

·         The man fallen from Yoga dwells many, many years on the planets of the pious living entities (svarga), after that he is born into a house of the pious and the prosperous (on this earth).

·         Or [if unsuccessful after long practice of yoga] he takes his birth in a family of Yogi who are surely great in wisdom. Certainly, such a birth is rare in this world.

·         On taking such a birth, he revives the divine consciousness of his previous life, and he again tries to make further progress in order to achieve complete success.

·         Because of previous practices, he is automatically and inquisitively gets attracted towards Yoga and even surpasses ritualistic principles.

·         When that yogi engages himself with sincere endeavor in making further progress, being washed of all contaminations, then ultimately, achieving perfection after many, many births of practice, he attains the supreme goal.

·         A Yogi is superior to a Tapasvi, superior to Jñāni, also superior to a Karmi. Therefore, in all circumstances, become a Yogi.

·         And of all Yogis, the one who always thinks of Me within himself, one who worships Me with full faith, he is the greatest Yogi according to Me.