Methods to attain yogarudha stage (Perfectional stage as described in Texts 6.18 – 6.23)
2Determination — Examples: Sparrow and Garuda (6.24)
3Without deviation (6.24)
4Faith — Be confident and pursue the path with great perseverance (6.24)
5Control senses by mind (6.24)
6Give up all material desires born of mental concoction (6.24)
7Intelligence sustained by full conviction (6.25)
8Mind fixed in oneself / not thinking anything else. (6.25)
9Step by step one achieves success (6.25)
recommended above for the practice of bhakti-yoga in Nectar of Instruction (“utsahan niscayad dhairyat...”)
aPrinciple behind the above mentioned nine methods (Refer to translation) — One should practice with great determination because “God helps those who help themselves”
bPratyahara — It implies to gradually cease sense activities
How – One should practice this by proper conviction and intelligence
cSamadhi — It implies how to fix the mind in self alone
How – One can come to this stage by conviction, meditation and cessation of senses
dBy Krishna consciousness practice one easily attains samadhi because a devotee automatically fulfils the following characteristics of samadhi
At that time there is no longer any danger of being engaged in the material conception of life
Although one is involved with matter as long as the material body exists, one should not think about sense gratification
One should think of no pleasure aside from the pleasure of the Supreme Self