Supreme Yogi.

Meditation Yoga

Chapter 6, Verse 32

ātmaupamyena sarvatra

samaṁ paśyati yo’rjuna

sukhaṁ vā yadi vā duḥkhaṁ

sa yogī paramo mataḥ

He, O Arjuna, who sees with equality everything in the image of the Self, whether it be grief or happiness, I hold him to be the supreme yogi.

Here Lord Krishna uses the expression ‘supreme yogi’, to show that there are different levels of Realisation. The one who has reached the ultimate Realisation, who has perceived God Himself within his own Self, and has attained complete unity with God, doesn’t have any will of his own: for him it is only, “Thy Will be done!” Christ prayed in the garden of Gethsemane, “Let not my will be done, but Thy Will be done!” One is completely surrendered to the Will of God! This ‘supreme yogi’, this Maha Yogi, knows that all is only Him. The supreme yogi, Christ, came to remind mankind

of this truth.

A man who dwells in the outside reality, identifies himself equally with every limb of his body – my leg, my feet, my arm, my head and so on. The yogi who has reached the level of identifying himself with the Body of the Lord, the cosmic Body of the Lord, identifies everything, the animate and the inanimate, within his own Self. So he looks at everything equally! He performs all actions in the most efficient way, and does everything perfectly! He does everything, even though he has no selfish interest in anything. A normal person with a human mind very attached to the outside reality will say, “Oh, I don’t care!” The supreme yogi won’t say, “I don’t care,” or “Finish with it,” or “Do it quickly!” Even though he is not attached to anything, he does everything in the most perfect way.

Bhagavad Gita