Chapter 5
Karma Sannyasa Yoga
The Renunciation of Action
- Verse 5.1O Krishna! you praise renunciation of actions and also the pursuit (of them). Tell me determinately which one of these…
- Verse 5.2Renunciation and pursuit of action are both instruments of happiness. But of the two, pursuit of action is superior to…
- Verse 5.3He should be understood to be always an ascetic, who has no aversion and no desire. For, O you of mighty arms! he who…
- Verse 5.4Children--not wise men--talk of sankhya and yoga as distinct. One who pursues either well obtains the fruit of both.
- Verse 5.5The seat which the sânkhyas obtain is reached by the yogas also. He sees (truly), who sees the sânkhya and yoga as one.
- Verse 5.6Renunciation, O you of mighty arms! is difficult to reach without devotion; the sage possessed of devotion attains…
- Verse 5.7He who is possessed of devotion, whose self is pure, who has restrained his self, and who has controlled his senses,…
- Verse 5.8The man of devotion, who knows the truth, thinks he does nothing at all, when he sees, hears, touches, smells, eats,…
- Verse 5.9The man of devotion, who knows the truth, thinks he does nothing at all, when he sees, hears, touches, smells, eats,…
- Verse 5.10He who, casting off (all) attachment, performs actions dedicating them to Brahman, is not tainted by sin, as the…
- Verse 5.11Devotees, casting off attachment, perform actions for attaining purity of self, with the body, the mind, the…
- Verse 5.12He who is possessed of devotion, abandoning the fruit of actions, attains the highest tranquillity. He who is without…
- Verse 5.13The self-restrained, embodied (self) lies at ease within the city of nine portals, renouncing all actions by the mind,…
- Verse 5.14The Lord is not the cause of actions, or of the capacity of performing actions amongst men, or of the connexion of…
- Verse 5.15The Lord receives no one's sin, nor merit either. Knowledge is enveloped by ignorance, hence all creatures are deluded.
- Verse 5.16But to those who have destroyed that ignorance by knowledge of the self, (such) knowledge, like the sun, shows forth…
- Verse 5.17And those whose mind is (centred) on it, whose (very) self it is, who are thoroughly devoted to it, and whose final…
- Verse 5.18The wise look upon a Brâhmana possessed of learning and humility, on a cow, an elephant, a dog, and a Svapâka, as alike.
- Verse 5.19Even here, those have conquered the material world, whose mind rests in equability; since Brahman is free from defects…
- Verse 5.20He who knows Brahman, whose mind is steady, who is not deluded, and who rests in Brahman, does not exult on finding…
- Verse 5.21One whose self is not attached to external objects, obtains the happiness that is in (one's) self; and by means of…
- Verse 5.22For the enjoyments born of contact (between senses and their objects) are, indeed, sources of misery; they have a…
- Verse 5.23He who even in this world, before his release from the body, is able to bear the agitations produced from desire and…
- Verse 5.24The devotee whose happiness is within (himself), whose recreation is within (himself), and whose light (of knowledge)…
- Verse 5.25The sages whose sins have perished, whose misgivings are destroyed, who are self-restrained, and who are intent on the…
- Verse 5.26To the ascetics, who are free from desire and wrath, and whose minds are restrained, and who have knowledge of the…
- Verse 5.27The sage who excludes (from his mind) external objects, (concentrates) the visual power between the brows, and making…
- Verse 5.28The sage who excludes (from his mind) external objects, (concentrates) the visual power between the brows, and making…
- Verse 5.29He knowing me to be the enjoyer of all sacrifices and penances, the great Lord of all worlds, and the friend of all…