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Renunciation of
Action
1.Said Arjuna,
"On the one hand you praise renunciation of action and on other you
commend the yoga of action. Please tell me clearly which of the two
is better."
2.Said the
Supreme Lord,"Both the yoga of action and the renunciation of action
are both good for liberation. But of the two, the yoga of action is
superior.
3."O Mighty
armed, He who neither hates nor desires should be known as the real
sanyasi (the renouncer of desire driven actions). Such a person,
free from the sense of dualities, is happily and completely
liberated from all bondage.
4."The
ignorant people say that the yoga of knowledge and the yoga of
action are different. But the learned ones do not say so. By
achieving mastery in either of the two, one can attain the fruit of
both.
5."The state
that can be achieved by following the yoga of knowledge, can also be
achieved by following the yoga of action. He who sees both these
yogas as one really sees.
6."O mighty
armed, renunciation without karma yoga attracts sorrow. But he who
practices renunciation established properly in karma yoga soon
attains Brahman.
7."The
qualified karma yogi, who is pure in his heart and conquered his
mind and his senses, sees his self in all selves and remains free
even though engaged in action.
8."The knower
of truth who is established in the yoga thinks," I am not doing
anything at all," while seeing, hearing, touching, smelling,
tasting, walking, dreaming and breathing.
9."And while
speaking, releasing, grasping, opening and closing of eyes, believes
that only his senses are occupied with sense objects.
10."He who
acts, offering all his actions to Brahman, giving up all attachment,
is never touched by sin, like the lotus leaf which is untouched by
water.
11. "The
karma yogis perform their actions, for the sake of
self-purification, using only their bodies, minds, intelligence and
senses, giving up all attachment.
12."By
renouncing the fruit of his actions, the karma yogi attains the
transcendental state of peaceful of mind. But he who works with an
intent to enjoy the fruit of his actions, attached thus, becomes
entangled in worldly life.
13."By
renouncing mentally all his actions, the self-controlled karma yogi
lives happily in the city of nine gates( the body) neither doing
anything nor making other do any thing.
14."The
Supreme Lord of the world does not create neither the doership nor
the doings in this world, nor attachment to the fruits of actions.
These things happen because of nature only.
15."Nor does
the Supreme Lord takes upon Himself anyone's good or bad deeds. By
ignorance is enveloped Knowledge. And by this mortals are
deluded.
16."But those
who destroy their ignorance by means of knowledge, their knowledge
illuminates and reveals the Supreme Lord the way Aditya, the sun god
illuminates the world.
17."Those
whose intelligence and mind are established in the Supreme, with
strong determination and exclusively devoted to Him, go to the world
of immortality, cleansed of all their impurities by
knowledge.
18."The wise,
look upon equally a Brahman who is endowed with the wealth of
knowledge and humility, a cow, an elephant, a dog or even an
outcaste.
19."In this
very world do they conquer the life of mortality whose minds are
established in equanimity. Since they are flawless like Brahman,
they are already established in Brahman.
20."The man of
stable of mind, undeluded, knower of Brahman, being established in
Brahman, neither rejoices when he achieves what is pleasant nor
worries when he gets unpleasant things.
21." He who is
disinterested in external sense objects and finds happiness in in
himself, such a yogi, his mind firmly established in Brahman, enjoys
unlimited bliss.
22."O son of
Kunti, the pleasures that are born out of sensory contacts are
sources of pain. They certainly are transient, having a beginning
and an end. The intelligent man is wise enough not to indulge in
them.
23."He who
succeeds in his present life in controlling the rushing force of his
desires and anger before giving up his body, he is well established
in yoga and is a happy human being.
24."He who is
inwardly happy , who enjoys within himself, whose inner light is lit
up, that mystic attains union with Brahman and becomes the Supreme
Self.
25."Those who
are innerly active, whose sins have diminished, who have overcome
the sense of duality, whose minds are firmly established in
self-realization, and who are engaged in the welfare of all beings
in the world, achieve union with Supreme Brahman.
26."Freed from
lust and anger, practicing self-restraint, they, who have realized
their inner selves, union with Brahman is a constant
experience.
27."Shutting
out all external objects, concentrating his inner gaze between the
two eye brows, controlling his inward and outward
breaths,
28."Restraining his mind, senses and intelligence, having
left behind desires, fear and anger, the sage is for ever
liberated.
29."Knowing Me as the beneficiary of all sacrifices,
penances and austerities, the Supreme Lord of all the worlds
and friend and well wisher of all living entities, he
attains peace.
Thus ends the
fifth chapter named Karma Sanyasa Yoga or Yoga of Renunciation of
Action in the Upanishad of the divine Bhagavad-Gita , the knowledge
of the Absolute, the yogic scripture, and the debate between Arjuna
and Lord Krishna.
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