A yogi seated in meditation is described as steady as a lamp in a windless place, the same stillness the celibate life is meant to cultivate
The verse names a very specific quality as the goal of meditation — steadiness under removed disturbance, not suppression of vitality.
Bhagavad Gita chapter 6, sometimes called Dhyana Yoga, is Krishna's instruction on meditation technique and the disciplined daily life that supports it — moderate eating and sleep, a fixed seat, steady posture, gaze and mind drawn inward. Verse 19 supplies the chapter's best-known image: the mind of a yogi established in meditation is compared to a lamp's flame in a windless place, which does not flicker or waver. The comparison works because it names a specific, observable quality — not absence of the flame, not extra brightness, but steadiness under conditions where disturbance has been removed — as the actual goal of practice. Within this section of the Gita, that same steadiness is what celibate and disciplined life is meant to cultivate more generally: not suppression of vitality but its concentration into an undisturbed, unwavering state.
As a lamp in a windless place does not flicker, so is the disciplined mind of a yogi practicing union with the Self.
Bhagavad Gita