Only that yogi whose joy is inward, inward his peace, and his vision inward, shall come to Brahman and know Nirvana.
The Bhagavad Gita
A Yogi’s Inward Focus
Topic: Prayer, Meditation, & Contemplation
“Only that yogi whose joy is inward, inward his peace, and his vision inward, shall come to Brahman and know Nirvana.”
Hinduism
The Bhagavad Gita
Smith, Huston. The World's Religions. Harper San Francisco, 1991, pp. 46-47 [Bhagavad-Gita].
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Bhagavad-Gita
“The senses turn outward,” observe the Upanishads. “People, therefore, look toward what is outside and see not the inward being. Rare are the wise ones who shut their eyes to outward things and behold the glory of the Atman within.” Five hundred years later the Bhagavad-Gita repeats that refrain:
Only that yogi
Whose joy is inward,
Inward his peace,
And his vision inward
Shall come to Brahman
And know Nirvana.
It is against the background of three millennia of this postulate that Mahatma Gandhi propose to our extroverted century: “Turn the spotlight inward.”
–Huston Smith [The World’s Religions, Our Great Wisdom Traditions].