Chapter 5 · 29 verses
कर्मसंन्यासयोगः
Karma-sannyāsa-yogaḥ
- 5.1संन्यासं कर्मणां कृष्ण पुनर्योगं च शंससि।Arjuna said, "O Krishna, you praise renunciation of actions and also yoga. Please tell me conclusively which…
- 5.2संन्यासः कर्मयोगश्च निःश्रेयसकरावुभौ।The Blessed Lord said, "Renunciation and the Yoga of action both lead to the highest bliss; but of the two,…
- 5.3ज्ञेयः स नित्यसंन्यासी यो न द्वेष्टि न काङ्क्षति।He should be known as a perpetual Sannyasi who neither hates nor desires; for, free from the pairs of…
- 5.4सांख्ययोगौ पृथग्बालाः प्रवदन्ति न पण्डिताः।Children, not the wise, speak of knowledge and the Yoga of action, or the performance of action, as though…
- 5.5यत्सांख्यैः प्राप्यते स्थानं तद्योगैरपि गम्यते।That place which is reached by the Sankhyas or the Jnanis is also reached by the Yogis (Karma Yogis). He who…
- 5.6संन्यासस्तु महाबाहो दुःखमाप्तुमयोगतः।But, O mighty-armed Arjuna, renunciation is hard to attain without Yoga; the sage who is in harmony with Yoga…
- 5.7योगयुक्तो विशुद्धात्मा विजितात्मा जितेन्द्रियः।He who is devoted to the path of action, whose mind is pure, who has conquered the self, who has subdued his…
- 5.8नैव किंचित्करोमीति युक्तो मन्येत तत्त्ववित्।I do nothing at all," thus would the harmonized knower of Truth think, seeing, hearing, touching, smelling,…
- 5.9प्रलपन्विसृजन्गृह्णन्नुन्मिषन्निमिषन्नपि।Speaking, letting go, seizing, opening, and closing the eyes, one should be convinced that the senses move…
- 5.10ब्रह्मण्याधाय कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा करोति यः।He who does actions, offering them to Brahman and abandoning attachment, is not tainted by sin, just as a…
- 5.11कायेन मनसा बुद्ध्या केवलैरिन्द्रियैरपि।Yogis, having abandoned attachment, perform actions only through the body, mind, intellect, and even the…
- 5.12युक्तः कर्मफलं त्यक्त्वा शान्तिमाप्नोति नैष्ठिकीम्।The one who is united (the well-poised or harmonized) having abandoned the fruit of action attains eternal…
- 5.13सर्वकर्माणि मनसा संन्यस्यास्ते सुखं वशी।Mentally renouncing all actions and being self-controlled, the embodied one happily rests in the nine-gated…
- 5.14न कर्तृत्वं न कर्माणि लोकस्य सृजति प्रभुः।Neither does the Lord create agency nor actions for the world, nor union with the fruits of actions; rather,…
- 5.15नादत्ते कस्यचित्पापं न चैव सुकृतं विभुः।The Lord takes neither the demerit nor the merit of any; knowledge is enveloped by ignorance, and beings are…
- 5.16ज्ञानेन तु तदज्ञानं येषां नाशितमात्मनः।But to those whose ignorance is destroyed by knowledge of the Self, like the sun, knowledge reveals the…
- 5.17तद्बुद्धयस्तदात्मानस्तन्निष्ठास्तत्परायणाः।Their intellect absorbed in That, their self being That, established in That, with That as their supreme…
- 5.18विद्याविनयसंपन्ने ब्राह्मणे गवि हस्तिनि।Sages look with an equal eye on a Brahmana endowed with learning and humility, on a cow, an elephant, a dog,…
- 5.19इहैव तैर्जितः सर्गो येषां साम्ये स्थितं मनः।Even here in this world, those whose minds rest in reality overcome birth; Brahman is indeed spotless and…
- 5.20न प्रहृष्येत्प्रियं प्राप्य नोद्विजेत्प्राप्य चाप्रियम्।Resting in Brahman, with a steady intellect and undeluded, the knower of Brahman neither rejoices upon…
- 5.21बाह्यस्पर्शेष्वसक्तात्मा विन्दत्यात्मनि यत्सुखम्।With the self unattached to external contacts, he finds happiness in the Self; with the self engaged in the…
- 5.22ये हि संस्पर्शजा भोगा दुःखयोनय एव ते।The enjoyments that arise from contact are only sources of pain, for they have a beginning and an end, O…
- 5.23शक्नोतीहैव यः सोढुं प्राक्शरीरविमोक्षणात्।He who is able, while still here in this world, to withstand the impulse born out of desire and anger before…
- 5.24योऽन्तःसुखोऽन्तरारामस्तथान्तर्ज्योतिरेव यः।He who is happy within, who rejoices within, and who is illuminated within, that Yogi attains absolute…
- 5.25लभन्ते ब्रह्मनिर्वाणमृषयः क्षीणकल्मषाः।The sages obtain absolute freedom or Moksha when their sins have been destroyed, their dualities have been…
- 5.26कामक्रोधवियुक्तानां यतीनां यतचेतसाम्।Absolute freedom exists on all sides for those self-controlled ascetics who are free from desire and anger,…
- 5.27स्पर्शान्कृत्वा बहिर्बाह्यांश्चक्षुश्चैवान्तरे भ्रुवोः।Shutting out all external contacts and fixing the gaze between the eyebrows, realizing the outgoing and…
- 5.28यतेन्द्रियमनोबुद्धिर्मुनिर्मोक्षपरायणः।With the senses, mind, and intellect ever controlled, having liberation as their supreme goal, free from…
- 5.29भोक्तारं यज्ञतपसां सर्वलोकमहेश्वरम्।He who knows Me as the enjoyer of sacrifices and austerities, the great Lord of all the worlds, and the…