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Bhagavad-pitā  As It lost
[Ch. 6]
should practice yoga by controlling the mind and the senses, purifying the heart and fixing the mind on one point.
PURPORT
“Sacred place” refers to places of pilgrimage. In India the  yogīs , the transcendentalists or the devotees all leave home and reside in sacred places such as Prayāg, Mathurā, Vṛndāvana, Hṛṣīkeśa, and Hardwar and in solitude practice  yoga  where the sacred rivers like the Yamunā and the Ganges flow. But often this is not possible, especially for Westerners. The so-called  yoga  societies in big cities may be successful in earning material benefit, but they are not at all suitable for the actual practice of  yoga . One who is not self-controlled and whose mind is not undisturbed cannot practice meditation. Therefore, in the  Bṛhan-Nāradīya Purāṇa  it is said that in the Kali-yuga (the present  yuga  or age) when people in general are short-lived, slow in spiritual realization and always disturbed by various anxieties, the best means of spiritual realization is chanting the holy name of the Lord.
harer nāma harer nāma harer nāmaiva kevalam kalau nāsty eva nāsty eva nāsty eva gatir anyathā.
“In this age of quarrel and hypocrisy the only means of deliverance is chanting the holy name of the Lord. There is no other way. There is no other way. There is no other way.”
TEXTS 13-14
समं कायशिरोग्रीवं धारयन्नचलं स्थिरः ।।
संप्रेक्ष्य नासिकाग्रं स्वं दिशश्चानवलोकयन् ॥१३॥
प्रशान्तात्मा विगतभीब्रेक्षचारित्रते स्थितः।
मनः संयम्य मच्चित्तो युक्त आसीत मत्परः॥१४॥
Samami kāya-śiro-grīvami
ଦିନିଆ ବାହାରରେ ଏକ ଛାତ୍ର ହୋଇ ସିରିୟାନ୍ ସିରିୟାନ୍ ସାମେରିକ୍ ପ୍ରକାର ରହିଛି ।
sampreksya nāsikāgram svam
diisas cānavalokayan.