Chapter 5
Verse
1
Arjuna Uvaacha:
Sannyaasam karmanaam krishna
Punar yogam cha shamsasi;
Yacchreya etayorekam tanme
Broohi sunishchitam.
Arjuna
said:
Renunciation
of actions, O Krishna, Thou praisest, and again Yoga! Tell me conclusively which
is the better of the two.
Verse
2
Sri Bhagavaan Uvaacha:
Sannyaasah karmayogashcha
Nihshreyasakaraa vubhau;
Tayostu karmasannyaasaat
Karmayogo vishishyate.
The
Blessed Lord said:
Renunciation
and the Yoga of action both lead to the highest bliss; but of the two, the Yoga
of action is superior to the renunciation of action.
Verse
3
Jneyah sa nityasannyaasi
Yo na dweshti na kaangkshati;
Nirdwandwo hi mahaabaaho
Sukham bandhaat pramuchyate.
He
should be known as a perpetual Sannyasin who neither hates nor desires; for,
free from the pairs of opposites, O mighty-armed Arjuna, he is easily set free
from bondage!
Verse
4
Saankhyayogau prithagbaalaah
Pravadanti na panditaah;
Ekam apyaasthitah samyag
Ubhayor vindate phalam.
Children,
not the wise, speak of knowledge and the Yoga of action or the performance of action
as though they are distinct and different; he who is truly established in one
obtains the fruits of both.
Verse
5
Yatsaankhyaih praapyate sthaanam
Tad yogair api gamyate;
Ekam saankhyam cha yogam
Cha yah pashyati sa pashyati.
That
place which is reached by the Sankhyas or the Jnanis is reached by the (Karma) Yogis.
He sees who sees knowledge and the performance of action (Karma Yoga) as one.
Verse
6
Sannyaasastu mahaabaaho
Duhkham aaptuma yogatah;
Yogayukto munir brahma
Na chirenaadhigacchati.
But
renunciation, O mighty-armed Arjuna, is hard to attain without Yoga; the Yoga-harmonized
sage proceeds quickly to Brahman!
Verse
7
Yogayukto vishuddhaatmaa
Vijitaatmaa jitendriyah;
Sarvabhootaatmabhootaatmaa
Kurvannapi na lipyate.
He
who is devoted to the path of action, whose mind is quite pure, who has
conquered the self, who has subdued his senses and who has realised his Self as
the Self in all beings, though acting, he is not tainted.
Verse
8
Naiva kinchit karomeeti
Yukto manyeta tattwavit;
Pashyan shrunvan sprishan jighran
Nashnan gacchan swapan shwasan.
“I
do nothing at all”—thus will the harmonised knower of Truth think—seeing,
hearing, touching, smelling, eating, going, sleeping, breathing,
Verse
9
Pralapan visrijan grihnan
Nunmishan nimishannapi;
Indriyaaneendriyaartheshu
Vartanta iti dhaarayan.
Speaking,
letting go, seizing, opening and closing the eyes—convinced that the senses move among the sense-objects.
Verse
10
Brahmanyaadhaaya karmaani
Sangam tyaktwaa karoti yah;
Lipyate na sa paapena
Padmapatram ivaambhasaa.
He
who performs actions, offering them to Brahman and abandoning attachment, is
not tainted by sin as a lotus leaf by water.
Verse
11
Kaayena manasaa buddhyaa
Kevalair indriyair api;
Yoginah karma kurvanti
Sangam tyaktwaatmashuddhaye.
Yogis,
having abandoned attachment, perform actions only by the body, mind, intellect and
also by the senses, for the purification of the self.
Verse
12
Yuktah karmaphalam tyaktwaa
Shaantim aapnoti naishthikeem;
Ayuktah kaamakaarena
Phale sakto nibadhyate.
The
united one (the well poised or the harmonised), having abandoned the fruit of action,
attains to the eternal peace; the non-united only (the unsteady or the
unbalanced), impelled by desire and
attached to the fruit, is bound.
Verse
13
Navadwaare pure dehee
Naiva kurvan na kaarayan.
Mentally
renouncing all actions and self-controlled, the embodied one rests happily in the
nine-gated city, neither acting nor causing others (body and senses) to act.
Verse
14
Na kartritwam na karmaani
Lokasya srijati prabhuh;
Na karmaphala samyogam
Swabhaavas tu pravartate.
Neither
agency nor actions does the Lord create for the world, nor union with the
fruits of actions; it is Nature that acts.
Verse
15
Naadatte kasyachit paapam
Na chaiva sukritam vibhuh;
Ajnaanenaavritam jnaanam
Tena muhyanti jantavah.
The Lord accepts neither the demerit nor even
the merit of any; knowledge is enveloped by ignorance, thereby beings are
deluded.
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