1140 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 27

One has to fix the mind at the lotus feet of Krsna; then everything will be
very nice. Thus the seriousness of bhakti-yoga is stressed in this verse.

TEXT 6

Tahar eat |
afy maa ata RTT TIE I

yamadibhir yoga-pathair
abhyasaii sraddhayanvitah

mayi bhdvena satyena
mat-kathd-sravanena ca

yama-adibhih—beginning with yama; yoga-pathaih—by the yoga system;
abhyasan— practicing; sraddhayd anvitah—with great faith; mayi—unto Me;
bhavena—with devotion; satyena—unalloyed; mat-katha—stories about Me;
sravanena— by hearing; ca—and.

TRANSLATION

One has to become faithful by practicing the controlling process of the
yoga system and must elevate himself to the platform of unalloyed
devotional service by chanting and hearing about Me.

PURPORT

Yoga is practiced in eight different stages: yama, niyama, dsana, prana-
yama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana, and samadhi. Yama and niyama mean
practicing the controlling process by following strict regulations, and dsana
refers to the sitting postures. These help to raise one to the standard of
faithfulness in devotional service. The practice of yoga by physical exercise
is not the ultimate goal; the real end is to concentrate and to control the
mind and train oneself to be situated in faithful devotional service.

Bhdavena, or bhava, is a very important factor in the practice of yoga or
in any spiritual process. Bhava is explained in Bhagavad-gita (10.8). Budha
bhava-samanvitah: one should be absorbed in the thought of love of Krsna.
When one knows that Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the
source of everything and that everything emanates from Him (ahami sarvas-
ya prabhavah), then one understands the Vedanta aphorism janmady asya
yatah (the original source of everything), and then he can become
absorbed in bhava, or the preliminary stage of love of Godhead.
