Monday, April 6, 2015

Bhagavad-Gita The Song Divine Chapter 5 (stanza 1-11)


Thus, in the Arjun said: Krishna, you extol Sankhya Yoga (the Yoga of Knowledge) and then the Yoga of Action. Pray, tell me which of the two is decidedly conductive to my good. …. (1)
Sri Krishna said: The Yoga of Knowledge and the Yoga of Action both lead to Supreme Bliss. Of the two, however, the Yoga of Action, being easier of practice, is superior to the Yoga of knowledge. …………….. (2)
The Karma Yogi who neither hates nor desires should ever be considered as an ever renunciant. For, Arjun, he who is free from the pairs of opposites is easily liberated from bondage. …… (3)
It is the ignorant, not the wise, who say that Sankhya Yoga and Karma Yoga lead to divergent results. For, one who is firmly established in either, gets the fruit of both which is the same, viz., God-realization?  ………… (4)
The (Supreme) state which is reached by the Sankhya Yogi is attained also by the Karma Yogi. Therefore, he alone who sees Sankhya Yoga and Karma Yoga as identical so far as their result goes sees truly. ………… (5)
Without Karma Yoga, however, Sankhya Yoga i.e., renunciation of doer-ship in relation to all activities of the mind, senses and body is difficult to accomplish; whereas the Karma Yogi, who keeps his mind fixed on God, reaches Brahma in no time, Arjun. ………… (6)
The Karma Yogi, who has fully conquered his mind and mastered his senses, whose heart is pure, and who had identified himself with the Self of all beings (viz., God), remains untainted, even though performing action. ………….. (7)
However, the Sankhya Yogi, who knows the reality of things, must believe that he does nothing, even though seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating or drinking walking, sleeping, breathing, speaking, answering the calls of nature, grasping, and opening or closing the eyes, holding that it is the senses alone that are moving among their objects. ………. (8-9)
he who acts offering all actions to God, and shaking off attachment, remains untouched by sin, as the lotus leaf by water. ………….. (10)

The Karma Yogis perform action only with their senses, mind, intellect and body as well, without the feeling of mine in respect of them and shaking off attachment, simply for the sake of self-purification. ……………. (11)

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