True yoga is not bodily gymnastics but the soul's reconnection with God through renounced devotional service.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 6.2–5 [Sāṅkhya Yoga System] — February 14, 1969, Los Angeles 690214BG-LOS ANGELES [40:04 Minutes] Bg-06.02–05_690214BG-LOS ANGELES Revatīnandana: Verse number two: "What is called renunciation is the same as yoga, or linking oneself with the Supreme, for no one can become a yogī unless he renounces the desire for sense gratification." Prabhupāda: Here is the point of yoga practice. Yoga means to join. Now, in our conditional state, although we are part and parcel of the Supreme, but we are now separated. The same example: This finger is part and parcel of your body, but if it is separated, amputated, it has no value.
But so long it is joined with this body, its value is millions of dollars, or more than that. If there is any disease, you can spend any amount to cure. Similarly, we, at the present moment in the conditioned state of material existence, we are separated from God. Therefore we are so much reluctant to speak of God, to understand about God, our relationship with God. We think it is simply waste of time. In this meeting, everyone knows that this temple, Kṛṣṇa consciousness temple, is speaking of God.
Or any church. People are not very much interested. They think it is a kind of, what is called, recreation, in the name of spiritual advancement; otherwise it is simply waste of time. Better this time could be used for earning some money or enjoying in a club or in a restaurant—sense enjoyment.
So detraction from God means sense enjoyment. Those who are too much addicted to sense enjoyment, they are not, I mean to say, eligible for yoga system. Yoga system is not that, that you go on doing all nonsense in sense gratification and simply sit down meditation. This is simply colossal hoax.
It has no meaning. Yoga system first is to sense..., controlling the sense: yama, niyama. There are eight different stages of practicing yoga: yama, niyama, āsana, dhyāna, dhāraṇā, prāṇāyāma, pratyāhāra, samādhi. So in the beginning, first of all we shall speak in this chapter, Lord Kṛṣṇa will teach you what is yoga system. Therefore in the beginning Kṛṣṇa says that no one can become a yogī unless he renounces the desire for sense gratification.
So anyone who is indulging in sense gratification, he's a nonsense. He's not a yogī. He cannot be a yogī. Yoga system is strictly celibacy, no sex life. That is yoga system.
No one can become a yogī if he indulges in sex life. The so-called yogīs come to your country and say, "Yes, whatever you like you can do. You meditate, I give you some mantra." These are all nonsense. Here it is authoritative statement that no one can become a yogī unless he renounces the desire for sense gratification.