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arjuna uvaca sannyasam karmanam krsna Arjuna said: 1. Renunciation of action, O Krishna, you commend, and again its performance [workwith devotion]. Of the two which one is the better? Tell me that conclusively. sri-bhagavan uvaca sannyasah karma-yogas ca The Blessed Lord said: 2. Renunciation and performance of action both lead to freedom; of the two, performance of action is superior to the renunciation of action. jneyah sa nitya-sannyasi 3. He should be known a constant Sanyasin, who neither hates nor desires; free from the pair of opposites, O mighty-armed, he is easily set free from bondage and is completely liberated. sankhya-yogau prthag balah 4. Children [ignorant], not the wise, speak of knowledge and performance of action as different; he who is truly established in one of these paths obtains the fruit of both. yat sankhyaih prapyate sthanam 5. The state reached by the Jnanis [means of analytical study] is also reached by the karma yogis [devotional service]. He sees things, as they are who sees Jnana and karma-yoga as one. sannyasas tu maha-baho 6. Sanyasa, O mighty-armed, is hard to attain to without karma yoga; the man of meditation, purified by karma yoga quickly goes to Brahman. yoga-yukto visuddhatma 7. With the mind purified by karma yoga, and the self-disciplined, and the senses subdued, one who realizes one's self as the Self in all beings, though always working; such a man is never entangled. naiva kincit karomiti pralapan visrjan grhnann 8-9. The sage centered in the Self should think, "I do nothing at all" - though seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, going, sleeping, breathing, speaking, emptying, holding, opening and closing the eyes - firm in the thought that the senses move among sense-objects. brahmany adhaya karmani 10. He who acts, abandoning attachment, dedicating his deeds to Brahman, is untainted by sin as a lotus leaf by water. kayena manasa buddhya 11. The yogi, abandoning attachment, performs work with the body, the mind, the intellect and the senses only, for self-purification. yuktah karma-phalam tyaktva 12. Abandoning the fruit of action, the yogi attains peace born of steadfastness; impelled by desire, the non-yogi is bound, attached to fruit. sarva-karmani manasa 13. Having mentally renounced all actions, the self-disciplined indweller rests happily in the city of nine gates, neither acting nor causing to act. na kartrtvam na karmani 14. The Lord does not create agency or actions for the world. He does not create union with the fruits of action. Nature does all this. nadatte kasyacit papam 15. The Omnipresent does not take note of the merit or demerit of any. Knowledge is veiled by ignorance; mortals are thereby deluded. jnanena tu tad ajnanam 16. Shining like the sun, knowledge reveals the Supreme in them, in whom ignorance is destroyed by Self-knowledge. tad-buddhayas tad-atmanas 17. Those who think on That, merge in That, get fixed in That, have That as the goal, they attain to non-return [path of liberation], their taints being dispelled by knowledge. vidya-vinaya-sampanne 18. Men of Self-knowledge see with equal vision a Brahman imbued with learning and humility, a cow, an elephant, a dog and an outcaste. ihaiva tairjitah sargo 19. Those whose minds are established in sameness and equanimity have already conquered the conditions of birth and death. They are flawless like Brahman, and thus they are already situated in Brahman. na prahrsyet priyam prapya 20. Established in Brahman, with firm understanding and with no delusion, the knower of Brahman rejoices not, getting what is pleasant and grieves not, getting what is unpleasant. bahya-sparsesv asaktatma 21. With the self-detached from the external contacts he realizes the bliss in the Self. Devoted as he is to the meditation of Brahman, he enjoys imperishable Bliss. ye hi samsparsa-ja bhoga 22. The delights that are contact-born are verily the wombs of pain; they have, O son of Kunti, a beginning and an end; no wise man rejoices in them. saknotihaiva yah sodhum 23. He who is able to resist the impulse of desire and anger even here before he quits the body - he is a yogi, he is a happy man. yo 'ntah-sukho 'ntar-aramas 24. He whose happiness is within, whose delight is within; whose illumination is within only, that yogi becomes Brahman and attains the Beatitude of Brahman. labhante brahma-nirvanam 25. With sins destroyed, doubts (dualities) removed, minds disciplined, being delighted in the welfare of all beings, the Rishis attain the Beatitude of Brahman. kama-krodha-vimuktanam 26. The Beatitude of Brahman is both here and hereafter for those Sanyasins who have shed lust and anger, subdued their minds and realized the Self. sparsan krtva bahir bahyams yatendriya-mano-buddhir 27-28. Shutting out external objects, fixing the gaze between the eyebrows, equalizing the outward and inward breathe moving in the nostrils, the sage who has controlled the senses, mind and intellect, who is solely pursuing liberation, who has cast away desire, fear and anger, he verily is liberated. bhoktaram yajna-tapasam 29. Having known Me as the Lord of Yajnas and asceticism, as the Ruler of all the worlds, as the Friend of all beings, he attains Peace from the pangs of material miseries. THE YOGA OF ACTION WITH RENUNCIATION |
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