Krishna’s Statement: Those who are resolute in purpose have a single-pointed intellect. The thoughts of the irresolute are many-branched and endless.
(Krishna teaches that focus through resolute purpose is essential for spiritual progress, contrasting it with a scattered mind.)
Krishna’s Statement: Your right is to work only, but never to its fruits; let not the fruits of action be your motive, nor let your attachment be to inaction.
(Krishna emphasizes focusing on selfless action without distraction by outcomes, central to Karma Yoga.)
Krishna’s Statement: Seated in a clean place, holding the body steady, fixing the mind on a single point, controlling thought and senses, let him practice yoga for self-purification.
(Krishna describes meditation requiring focused concentration on a single point to achieve spiritual clarity.)
Krishna’s Statement: Yoga is not for one who eats too much or too little, sleeps too much or too little. Yoga, which destroys pain, is for one who is moderate and disciplined.
(Krishna stresses balanced discipline to maintain focus in meditation, avoiding extremes that distract the mind.)
Krishna’s Statement: The mind is restless and difficult to restrain, but it is subdued by practice and detachment, O Arjuna.
(Krishna teaches that persistent practice and detachment are essential to focus the restless mind in meditation.)
Krishna’s Statement: Always chanting My glories, striving with firm resolve, bowing to Me in devotion, My devotees ever worship Me with love.
(Krishna describes devotees who focus their minds and actions on Him through unwavering devotion.)
Krishna’s Statement: Those who fix their minds on Me, worship Me with supreme faith and devotion, I consider them the most perfect yogis.
(Krishna emphasizes single-pointed devotion to Him as the highest form of focus, leading to spiritual perfection.)
Krishna’s Statement: Fix your mind on Me, place your intellect in Me; thereafter, you will live in Me alone, without doubt.
(Krishna instructs Arjuna to focus mind and intellect solely on Him to attain divine union through devotion.)