Dhyana Yoga in the Bhagavad Gita

Verses across the Gita that speak to dhyana yoga, drawn from all chapters and ordered by where they appear.

• 6.5Your own inner handling makes you rise or collapse.
• 6.6The same inner nature that frees you can also fight you.
• 6.7Steadiness makes the highest reality feel near in every opposite.
• 6.9Equal vision toward all people marks the highest steadiness.
• 6.23Yoga is the breaking of suffering’s grip, practiced steadily.
• 6.33Restlessness makes even clear teaching feel unreachable.
• 6.37Faith without completion still deserves a clear answer.
• 6.38Half-finished striving can feel like total ruin.
• 6.40Sincere effort toward the good cannot end in ruin.
• 6.45Persistent striving eventually ripens into the highest fulfillment.
• 6.46Inner mastery outranks every outer path.
• 18.51Purified resolve cuts the pull of craving and aversion.
• 18.52Freedom grows from deliberate simplicity and steady restraint.