Gita 5.1
अर्जुन उवाच।
संन्यासं कर्मणां कृष्ण पुनर्योगं च शंससि।
यच्छ्रेय एतयोरेकं तन्मे ब्रूहि सुनिश्चितम्।।
arjuna uvāca sannyāsaṁ karmaṇāṁ kṛṣṇa punar yogaṁ ca śaṁsasi yac chreya etayor ekaṁ tan me brūhi su-niścitam
"Arjuna said: O Krishna, you praise both renunciation of action and yoga of action. Tell me decisively which one is better."
All 29 verses of Chapter 5
- 5.1Arjuna said: O Krishna, you praise both renunciation of action and yoga of action. Tell me decisively...
- 5.2The Supreme Lord said: Both renunciation and yoga of action lead to liberation. But of the two, yoga of...
- 5.3Know that person to be a true renunciant who neither hates nor desires. Free from the pairs of opposites...
- 5.4Only the ignorant speak of Sankhya (knowledge) and Yoga (action) as different. The wise know that one who...
- 5.5The state reached by the Sankhyas is also reached by the Yogis. One who sees Sankhya and Yoga as one truly...
- 5.6But renunciation without yoga is difficult to attain, O Arjuna. The sage who is disciplined in yoga...
- 5.7One who is disciplined in yoga, pure in heart, master of self, with senses conquered, and whose self has...
- 5.8The knower of truth, though seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, walking, sleeping, and breathing...
- 5.9...speaking, releasing, grasping, opening and closing the eyes, always holds that the senses move among...
- 5.10One who acts offering all actions to Brahman, abandoning attachment, is not touched by sin, like a lotus...
- 5.11Yogis perform action with body, mind, intellect, and even the senses alone, without attachment, for the...
- 5.12The disciplined one, abandoning the fruit of action, attains lasting peace. The undisciplined one...
- 5.13Mentally renouncing all actions, the self-controlled embodied soul dwells happily in the city of nine...
- 5.14The Lord does not create agency, nor actions, nor the connection of action with its fruit. But nature...
- 5.15The all-pervading Lord takes on neither anyone's sin nor good deed. Knowledge is covered by ignorance...
- 5.16But for those whose ignorance is destroyed by knowledge of the Self, that knowledge, like the sun...
- 5.17Those whose intellect is absorbed in That, whose self is That, who are established in That, devoted to...
- 5.18The wise see the same in a learned and humble brahmin, in a cow, an elephant, a dog, and an outcaste.
- 5.19Even here, in this life, birth is conquered by those whose mind is established in equality. Brahman is...
- 5.20One should not rejoice upon gaining what is pleasant, nor be troubled upon receiving what is unpleasant...
- 5.21With the self unattached to external contacts, one finds happiness in the Self. United with Brahman...
- 5.22Pleasures born of contact are only sources of suffering, for they have a beginning and an end, O Arjuna...
- 5.23One who is able to withstand here, before leaving the body, the impulse arising from desire and anger...
- 5.24One whose happiness is within, whose pleasure is within, whose light is within, that yogi, having become...
- 5.25The sages who have destroyed their impurities, cut through doubts, are self-controlled, and delight in the...
- 5.26For the self-controlled ascetics who are free from desire and anger, who have controlled their minds and...
- 5.27Shutting out external contacts, fixing the gaze between the eyebrows, equalizing the inward and outward...
- 5.28...with senses, mind, and intellect controlled, the sage devoted to liberation, free from desire, fear...
- 5.29Knowing Me as the enjoyer of all sacrifices and austerities, the great Lord of all worlds, and the friend...