What is the connection between Gita 6.4 yogarudha stage and 6.5-6 mind’s inimical nature?

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thank you question what is the correlation in the bhagavad-gita 6.4 which talks about stages in yoga and then 6.5 and 6 which suddenly talks about how the mind can be the enemy or the friend answer here krishna is telling about when a person will become qualified to renounce the world and focus exclusively on meditation in the forest so that aruksh stage is the beginning stage is the stage where one is qualified to practice shamaha means giving up activity and focusing only on inner cultivation now if our mind is not controlled at least to some fundamental degree then just passive inner absorption will become very dangerous so even bhakti sanshrakar also in his song about nirjan bhajan he says that so don’t because you are not pure enough don’t try to do bhajan alone so similarly that same principle applies here that as long as the mind is not controlled as long as the mind can act inimically till that time one has to live in society in relationship with others what happens when we are living in relationship with others so often the relationships especially when they are within dharmic context they have a civilizing influence on us they don’t allow us to act completely uncivilized ways which is what the mind would make us do so the first stage is that we do our duties and in doing our duties in the world in relationship with others we are forced to regulate our mind to some extent because we are acting in the external which is what the mind wants to do but we do it in regulation only when the mind has given up its enjoying mentality to a large extent then when we are we are alone with the mind because when we are in the forest we are we are alone so that we can turn inwards and go towards the super soul cutting away from the world but then we are alone with the mind so if the mind is at that stage an enemy then the yogi who is alone in the forest will find life becoming hellish so what the 6.4 says that shamaha can giving up work can be done when one is at the arudh stage and what is the prerequisite for the arudh stage that is the mind should be controlled and to explain the importance of mind being controlled and to do that krishna says how the mind can be an enemy as well as a friend and then he gives after arudh in 7th and 8th verses the character 7th 8th 9th verses he gives the characteristics of those who have controlled their mind so the need for controlling the mind especially when somebody wants to focus exclusively on meditation is mentioned in the is the emphasis in the connection from 6.4 to 5 and 6.