अर्जुन उवाच |
Arjuna said Renunciation of actions, O Krishna, Thou praisest, and again Yoga. Tell me co…
5.2श्रीभगवानुवाच |
The Blessed Lord said Renunciation and the Yoga of action both lead to the highest bliss;…
5.3ज्ञेयः स नित्यसंन्यासी यो न द्वेष्टि न काङ्क्षति |
He should be known as a perpertual Sannyasi who neither hates nor desires; for, free from …
5.4साङ्ख्ययोगौ पृथग्बालाः प्रवदन्ति न पण्डिताः |
Children, not the wise, speak of knowledge and the Yoga of action or the performance of ac…
5.5यत्साङ्ख्यैः प्राप्यते स्थानं तद्योगैरपि गम्यते |
That place which is reached by the Sankhyas or the Jnanis is reached by the Yogis (Karma Y…
5.6संन्यासस्तु महाबाहो दुःखमाप्तुमयोगतः |
But renunciation, O mighty-armed Arjuna, is hard to attain without Yoga; the Yoga-harmonis…
5.7योगयुक्तो विशुद्धात्मा विजितात्मा जितेन्द्रियः |
He who is devoted to the path of action, whose mind is ite pure, who has conered the self,…
5.8नैव किञ्चित्करोमीति युक्तो मन्येत तत्त्ववित् |
"I do nothing at all," thus would the harmonised knower of Truth think seeing, hearing, t…
5.9प्रलपन्विसृजन्गृह्णन्नुन्मिषन्निमिषन्नपि |
Speaking, letting go, seizing, opening and closing the eyes convinced that the senses mov…
5.10ब्रह्मण्याधाय कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा करोति यः |
He who does actions, offering them to Brahman, and abandoning attachment, is not tainted b…
5.11कायेन मनसा बुद्ध्या केवलैरिन्द्रियैरपि |
Yogis, having abandoned attachment, perform actions only by the body, mind, intellect, and…
5.12युक्तः कर्मफलं त्यक्त्वा शान्तिमाप्नोति नैष्ठिकीम् |
The united one (the well poised or the harmonised) having abandoned the fruit of action at…
5.13सर्वकर्माणि मनसा संन्यस्यास्ते सुखं वशी |
Mentally renouncing all actions and self-controlled, the embodied one rests happily in the…
5.14न कर्तृत्वं न कर्माणि लोकस्य सृजति प्रभुः |
Neither agency nor actions does the Lord create for the world, nor union with the fruits o…
5.15नादत्ते कस्यचित्पापं न चैव सुकृतं विभुः |
The Lord takes neither the demerit nor even the merit of any; knowledge is enveloped by ig…
5.16ज्ञानेन तु तदज्ञानं येषां नाशितमात्मनः |
But to those whose ignorance is destroyed by the knowledge of the Self, like the sun, know…
5.17तद्बुद्धयस्तदात्मानस्तन्निष्ठास्तत्परायणाः |
Their intellect absorbed in That, their self being That, established in That, with That fo…
5.18विद्याविनयसम्पन्ने ब्राह्मणे गवि हस्तिनि |
Sages look with an eal eye on a Brahmana endowed with learning and humility, on a cow, on …
5.19इहैव तैर्जितः सर्गो येषां साम्ये स्थितं मनः |
Even here (in this world) birth (everything) is overcome by those whose minds rest in eali…
5.20न प्रहृष्येत्प्रियं प्राप्य नोद्विजेत्प्राप्य चाप्रियम् |
Resting in Brahman, with steady intellect and undeluded, the knower of Brahman neither rej…
5.21बाह्यस्पर्शेष्वसक्तात्मा विन्दत्यात्मनि यत्सुखम् |
With the self unattached to external contacts he finds happiness in the Self; with the sel…
5.22ये हि संस्पर्शजा भोगा दुःखयोनय एव ते |
The enjoyments that are born of contacts are only generators of pain, for they have a begi…
5.23शक्नोतीहैव यः सोढुं प्राक्शरीरविमोक्षणात् |
He who is able, while still here (in this world) to withstand, before the liberation from …
5.24योऽन्तःसुखोऽन्तरारामस्तथान्तर्ज्योतिरेव यः |
He who is happy within, who rejoices within, and who is illuminated within, that Yogi atta…
5.25लभन्ते ब्रह्मनिर्वाणमृषयः क्षीणकल्मषाः |
The sages (Rishis) obtain absolute freedom or Moksha they whose sins have been destroyed,…
5.26कामक्रोधवियुक्तानां यतीनां यतचेतसाम् |
Absolute freedom (or Brahmic bliss) exists on all sides for those self-controlled ascetics…
5.27स्पर्शान्कृत्वा बहिर्बाह्यांश्चक्षुश्चैवान्तरे भ्रुवोः |
Shutting out (all) external contacts and fixing the gaze between the eyrow, ealising the o…
5.28यतेन्द्रियमनोबुद्धिर्मुनिर्मोक्षपरायणः |
With the senses, the mind and the intellect (ever) controlled, having liberation as his su…
5.29भोक्तारं यज्ञतपसां सर्वलोकमहेश्वरम् |
He who knows Me as the enjoyer of sacrifices and austerities, the great Lord of all the wo…