Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 6: The Path of Meditation

Bhagavad Gita 6.28

yuñjannevaṃ sadātmānaṃ yogī vigatakalmaṣaḥ | sukhena brahmasaṃsparśamatyantaṃ sukhamaśnute ||

Always disciplining the self in this way, the yogi, freed from impurity, easily enjoys the boundless happiness of contact with Brahman.

Modern context

'Easily' is the surprising word. Early in practice everything is effort, but practice changes that, and what took struggle becomes natural. The verse also uses the word 'contact', which elsewhere described sense contacts that bring passing pleasures. Here it is contact with the infinite, and the happiness it brings does not pass. The same human capacity for contact and delight is pointed at something that can satisfy it.