युक्ताहारविहारस्य युक्तचेष्टस्य कर्मसु | युक्तस्वप्नावबोधस्य योगो भवति दुःखहा
yuktāhāravihārasya yuktaceṣṭasya karmasu . yuktasvapnāvabodhasya yogo bhavati duḥkhahā
جس کی خوراک اور تفریح معتدل ہو، جس کی اعمال میں کوشش مناسب ہو، اور جس کی نیند اور بیداری متوازن ہو، ایسے شخص کے لیے یوگ دکھوں کو ختم کرنے والا ہوتا ہے۔
Yoga becomes a destroyer of sorrow of one whose eating and movements are regulated, whose effort in works is moderate, and whose sleep and wakefulness are temperate.
اس آیت میں بھگوان نے یوگ کے طالب علم کے لیے خوراک، تفریح اور دیگر سرگرمیوں میں اعتدال کی اہمیت پر زور دیا ہے۔ یوگی کو ہمیشہ درمیانی راستہ اختیار کرنا چاہیے۔ زندگی کے تمام پہلوؤں میں اعتدال اور نظم و ضبط یوگ میں کامیابی کی کنجی ہے، جو تمام دکھوں اور غموں کو ختم کرنے والا بن جاتا ہے۔
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.