Meditation

स्पर्शान्कृत्वा बहिर्बाह्यांश्चक्षुश्चैवान्तरे भ्रुवोः।
प्राणापानौ समौ कृत्वा नासाभ्यन्तरचारिणौ।।5.27।।

sparśānkṛtvā bahirbāhyāṅścakṣuścaivāntarē bhruvōḥ.
prāṇāpānau samau kṛtvā nāsābhyantaracāriṇau..5.27..

Having,excluded external contacts and with gaze fixed between eyebrows; having made equal the outgoing and ingoing breaths moving between the nostrils.

(Normally, we breathe in for 1 sec and breathe out for 3-4 secs.)

यतेन्द्रियमनोबुद्धिर्मुनिर्मोक्षपरायणः।
विगतेच्छाभयक्रोधो यः सदा मुक्त एव सः।।5.28।।

yatēndriyamanōbuddhirmunirmōkṣaparāyaṇaḥ.
vigatēcchābhayakrōdhō yaḥ sadā mukta ēva saḥ..5.28..

With senses,mind,and reason ever controlled, solely pursuing liberation, the sage, having forever cast away desire, fear and passion, verily is liberated.

(English translation from -The Bhagvad Gita- Annie Besant and Bhagvan Das)

Wisdom on the internet

I was on Gita Supersite beta 2.0 and found out that:
Sloka 9:22 has been replaced by 7:24

Swami Sivanand gives a very interesting explanation of 7:24

अनन्याश्चिन्त्यन्तो माम ये जनाः पर्युपासते।
तेषां नित्याभियुक्तानां योगक्षेमंवहाम्यहं॥

ananyāścintyanto māma ye janāḥ paryupāsate|
teṣāṁ nityābhiyuktānāṁ yogakṣemaṁvahāmyahaṁ||

  


English Translation - Swami Sivananda
9.22 For those men who worship Me alone, thinking of no other, for those ever-united, I secure what is not already possessed and preserve what they already possess.

अव्यक्तं व्यक्तिमापन्नं मन्यन्ते माम्बुद्धयः।
परं भावमजानन्तो ममाव्ययमनुत्तमम् ॥

avyaktaṁ vyaktimāpannaṁ manyante māmbuddhayaḥ |
paraṁ bhāvamajānanto mamāvyayamanuttamam  ||

English commentary by Swami Sivananda

7.24
अव्यक्तम् the unmanifested,
व्यक्तिम् to manifestation,
आपन्नम् come to,
मन्यन्ते think,
माम् Me,
अबुद्धयः the foolish,
परम् the highest,
भावम् nature,
अजानन्तः not knowing,
मम My,
अव्ययम् immutable,
अनुत्तमम् most excellent.

Commentary: The ignorant take Lord Krishna as a common mortal. They think that He has taken a body like ordinary human beings from the unmanifested state on account of the force of Karma of the previous birth. They have no knowledge of His higher, imperishable and self-luminous nature as the Highest Self. They think that He has just now come into manifestation, though He is self-existent, eternal, beginningless, endless, birthless, deathless, changeless, infinite and unmanifest.