Krishna begins the Sixth Chapter by explaining that the neophyte yogi engages in fruitive sitting postures while the advanced yogi, the true ‘sannyasi’, works without attachment. Such a yogi liberates, not degrades, himself by his mind’s activities.

Carefully controlling his mind and engaging it body and his self in Krishna’s service, the yogi strictly practices ‘dhyana- yoga’ in a secluded place. Fixing his mind on the self and on

Krishna, he attains transcendental happiness in the kingdom of God.

Arjuna then points out the main difficulty in practicing yoga is controlling the mind. Krishna responds by saying that one can overcome the obstinate mind through constant practice and determination. In responding to Arjuna’s question about the fate of an unsuccessful yogi, Krishna answers that one unsuccessful in his practice will still take birth in a family of wise transcendentalists and automatically attract yogic principles. Krishna finally states in the last two verses of the chapter that the yogi is greater than the ascetic, the jnani and the karmi.

And the greatest of all yogis is he who always thinks of Krishna and with greatest faith worships Him in loving service. He explains that one should initiate his practice of yoga from the point of concentrating of the mind upon Krishna. Chapter Seven thus opens with Krishna explaining knowledge of Himself so that Arjuna can think of Him with devotion as he fights. — Bhagavad-Gita.us