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युक्ताहारविहारस्य युक्तचेष्टस्य कर्मसु। युक्तस्वप्नावबोधस्य योगो भवति दुःखहा।।6.17।।

yuktāhāra-vihārasya yukta-cheṣhṭasya karmasu yukta-svapnāvabodhasya yogo bhavati duḥkha-hā

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 6, Verse 17
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
Yoga becomes the destroyer of pain for him who is moderate in eating and recreation (such as walking, etc.), who exercises moderation in action, and who is moderate in sleep and wakefulness.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: for one moderate in eating and recreation, moderate in effort in action, moderate in sleep and wakefulness, yoga becomes the destroyer of suffering, again reinforcing moderation, not extremity, as the actual condition for real progress.

In life: sustainable, moderate habits maintained consistently usually beat dramatic, unsustainable regimens that collapse after a few weeks.

Teaching: choose the moderate, sustainable version of a habit change over the dramatic, extreme version, consistency matters more here than intensity.

yuktamoderate
āhāraeating
vihārasyarecreation
yukta cheṣhṭasya karmasubalanced in work
yuktaregulated
svapna-avabodhasyasleep and wakefulness
yogaḥYog
bhavatibecomes
duḥkha-hāthe slayer of sorrows

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
6.17 युक्ताहारविहारस्य of one who is moderate in eating and recreation (such as walking? etc.)? युक्तचेष्टस्य कर्मसु of one who is moderate in exertion in actions? युक्तस्वप्नावबोधस्य of one who is moderate in sleep and wakefulness? योगः Yoga? भवति becomes? दुःखहा the destroyer of pain.Commentary In this verse the Lord prescribes for the student of Yoga? diet? recreation and th like. The student of Yoga should always adopt the happy medium or the middle course. Lord Buddha went to the extremes in the beginning in matters of food? drink? etc. He was very abstemious and became extremely weak. He tortured his body very much. Therefore he was not able to attain to success in Yoga. Too much of austerity is not necessary for Selfrealisation. This is condemned by the Lord in chapter XVII? verses 5 and 6. Austerity should not mean selftorture. Then it becomes diabolical. The Buddi Yoga of Krishna is a wise approach to austerity. Some aspirants take asceticism as the goal it is only the means but not the end. The nervous system is extremely,sensitive. It responds even to very slight changes and causes distraction of the mind. It is? therefore? very necessary that you should lead a very regulated and disciplined life and should be moderate in food? sleep and recreation. Take measured food. Sleep and wake up at the prescribed time. Sleeo at 9 or 10 p.m. and get up at 3 or 4 a.m. Only then will you attain to success in Yoga which will kill all sorts or pains and sorrows of this life.