what are the two specific questions regarding yoga and it's practitioner asked by Arjuna to Krishna in chapter 6 of Bhagavad Gita?what do 'small cloud' and 'big cloud' indicate? Explain the cloud analogy with respect to the life of a practicing spiritualist. Does an unsuccessful spiritualist lose both materially and spiritually? Explain. what are the two categories of unsuccessful yogis? where do they go in next life.
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The two specific questions regarding yoga and its practitioner that was asked by Arjuna to Krishna in chapter 6 are as follows.
(1) What is renunciation and is it is the same as yoga, or linking a person with the Supreme?
(2) For a person who is a beginner in the eightfold yoga process, what is work and its means?
The small cloud and big cloud are analogies to explain a transcendentalist.
A small cloud sometimes breaks away from a bigger cloud but if it fails to join again to another cloud, it may be blown away by wind. The same way it can happen to an aspiring transcendentalist.
An aspiring spiritualist may lose both spiritually and materially if he fails to get rid of material pleasure.
The two categories of unsuccessful yogis are
(1) one falls after making little progress, and
(2) the other falls after practicing yoga for long. Those yogis who fail after a short time of practice proceed to higher planets where pure living souls are allowed.
After living there for some time, they are sent back again. They usually take birth in a family of virtuous brahmana, aristocratic merchants or vaisnava.