Different Convictions in the Gita

Lord Krishna attaches special importance to devotion and considers it the supreme spiritual discipline. Though He also mentions His conviction in the disciplines of knowledge, action and devotion and in the study of the Gita, yet He lays great emphasis on devotion.

In the thirtieth verse of the third chapter the Lord mentions the topic of devotion by asking Arjuna to surrender all actions to Him. Confirming the same point in the thirty first and the thirty second verses by positive and negative inferences the Lord declares – Those who with an uncaviling and devout mind follow this teaching of Mine are released from the bondage of actions. But those who carp at My teaching and act not there on, know them to be ruined.

The Lord while mentioning the enlightened yogi of meditation declares that he who looks on all as one, on the analogy of his own self and judges pleasure or pain with a similar eye, such a yogi is regarded as the supreme (6/32).

Hearing the yoga of meditation when Arjuna says that it is difficult to control the turbulent mind, the Lord answers that the mind can be controlled by practice and dispassion. He tells his conviction by declaring ”Yoga is hard to attain by the man whose mind is not subdued; but it can be attained by him who has controlled his mind” (6/36).