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circumstances and what have you. Maintaining
a sense of harmony in all situations and
circumstances. not being affected either in
happiness or distress, gain or loss, birth or
death is also yoga. Gita's concept of yoga
permeates the entire human life. Discharging
the responsibility, doing the duty, behaving
and acting in general — doing all this well
and in a pleasing manner is part of yoga.
Living a life of regularity, self-restraint and
discipline is the practical aspect of yoga.
According to Gita, yoga in fact is the
process of entering the inner world from the
external one. Yoga is the method of knowing
the abstract through the concrete. Yoga is a
way of concentrating the innumerable powers
of mind. Yoga is controlling, elevating and
directing the mind which is otherwise
obdurate. fickle and uncontrolled. The mind is
a man's friend and also the enemy. One who