section_path: Chapters and content/Chapter 6: Atma Samyama Yoga (47 verses)
section_name: Chapter 6: Atma Samyama Yoga (47 verses)
paragraph_text: Chapter 6: Atma Samyama Yoga (47 verses)
  
  Translators title the sixth chapter as Dhyana yoga, Religion by Self-Restraint, The Practice of Meditation, or The Yoga of Meditation. The chapter opens as a continuation of Krishna's teachings about selfless work and the personality of someone who has renounced the fruits that are found in chapter 5. Krishna says that such self-realized people are impartial to friends and enemies, are beyond good and evil, equally disposed to those who support them or oppose them because they have reached the summit of consciousness. The verses 6.10 and after proceed to summarize the principles of Yoga and meditation in the format similar to but simpler than Patanjali's Yogasutra. It discusses who is a true yogi, and what it takes to reach the state where one harbors no malice towards anyone. Verse 6.47 emphasizes the significance of soul's faith and loving service to Krishna as the highest form of yoga.