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Chapter 5

Karma Sanyasa Yoga

VERSE 5.1

अर्जुन उवाच | संन्यासं कर्मणां कृष्ण पुनर्योगं च शंससि | यच्छ्रेय एतयोरेकं तन्मे ब्रूहि सुनिश्चितम् ...

5.1 Arjuna said Renunciation of actions, O Krishna, Thou praisest, and again Yoga. Tell me conclusi...

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VERSE 5.2

श्रीभगवानुवाच | संन्यासः कर्मयोगश्च निःश्रेयसकरावुभौ | तयोस्तु कर्मसंन्यासात्कर्मयोगो विशिष्यते ||५-...

5.2 The Blessed Lord said Renunciation and the Yoga of action both lead to the highest bliss; but o...

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VERSE 5.3

ज्ञेयः स नित्यसंन्यासी यो न द्वेष्टि न काङ्क्षति | निर्द्वन्द्वो हि महाबाहो सुखं बन्धात्प्रमुच्यते |...

5.3 He should be known as a perpertual Sannyasi who neither hates nor desires; for, free from the pa...

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VERSE 5.4

साङ्ख्ययोगौ पृथग्बालाः प्रवदन्ति न पण्डिताः | एकमप्यास्थितः सम्यगुभयोर्विन्दते फलम् ||५-४||

5.4 Children, not the wise, speak of knowledge and the Yoga of action or the performance of action a...

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VERSE 5.5

यत्साङ्ख्यैः प्राप्यते स्थानं तद्योगैरपि गम्यते | एकं साङ्ख्यं च योगं च यः पश्यति स पश्यति ||५-५||

5.5 That place which is reached by the Sankhyas or the Jnanis is reached by the Yogis (Karma Yogis)....

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VERSE 5.6

संन्यासस्तु महाबाहो दुःखमाप्तुमयोगतः | योगयुक्तो मुनिर्ब्रह्म नचिरेणाधिगच्छति ||५-६||

5.6 But renunciation, O mighty-armed Arjuna, is hard to attain without Yoga; the Yoga-harmonised sag...

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VERSE 5.7

योगयुक्तो विशुद्धात्मा विजितात्मा जितेन्द्रियः | सर्वभूतात्मभूतात्मा कुर्वन्नपि न लिप्यते ||५-७||

5.7 He who is devoted to the path of action, whose mind is ite pure, who has conered the self, who h...

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VERSE 5.8

नैव किञ्चित्करोमीति युक्तो मन्येत तत्त्ववित् | पश्यञ्शृण्वन्स्पृशञ्जिघ्रन्नश्नन्गच्छन्स्वपञ्श्वसन् |...

5.8 "I do nothing at all," thus would the harmonised knower of Truth think seeing, hearing, touchin...

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VERSE 5.9

प्रलपन्विसृजन्गृह्णन्नुन्मिषन्निमिषन्नपि | इन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थेषु वर्तन्त इति धारयन् ||५-९||

5.9 Speaking, letting go, seizing, opening and closing the eyes convinced that the senses move amon...

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VERSE 5.10

ब्रह्मण्याधाय कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा करोति यः | लिप्यते न स पापेन पद्मपत्रमिवाम्भसा ||५-१०||

5.10 He who does actions, offering them to Brahman, and abandoning attachment, is not tainted by sin...

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VERSE 5.11

कायेन मनसा बुद्ध्या केवलैरिन्द्रियैरपि | योगिनः कर्म कुर्वन्ति सङ्गं त्यक्त्वात्मशुद्धये ||५-११||

5.11 Yogis, having abandoned attachment, perform actions only by the body, mind, intellect, and even...

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VERSE 5.12

युक्तः कर्मफलं त्यक्त्वा शान्तिमाप्नोति नैष्ठिकीम् | अयुक्तः कामकारेण फले सक्तो निबध्यते ||५-१२||

5.12 The united one (the well poised or the harmonised) having abandoned the fruit of action attains...

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VERSE 5.13

सर्वकर्माणि मनसा संन्यस्यास्ते सुखं वशी | नवद्वारे पुरे देही नैव कुर्वन्न कारयन् ||५-१३||

5.13 Mentally renouncing all actions and self-controlled, the embodied one rests happily in the nine...

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VERSE 5.14

न कर्तृत्वं न कर्माणि लोकस्य सृजति प्रभुः | न कर्मफलसंयोगं स्वभावस्तु प्रवर्तते ||५-१४||

5.14 Neither agency nor actions does the Lord create for the world, nor union with the fruits of act...

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VERSE 5.15

नादत्ते कस्यचित्पापं न चैव सुकृतं विभुः | अज्ञानेनावृतं ज्ञानं तेन मुह्यन्ति जन्तवः ||५-१५||

5.15 The Lord takes neither the demerit nor even the merit of any; knowledge is enveloped by ignoran...

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VERSE 5.16

ज्ञानेन तु तदज्ञानं येषां नाशितमात्मनः | तेषामादित्यवज्ज्ञानं प्रकाशयति तत्परम् ||५-१६||

5.16 But to those whose ignorance is destroyed by the knowledge of the Self, like the sun, knowledge...

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VERSE 5.17

तद्बुद्धयस्तदात्मानस्तन्निष्ठास्तत्परायणाः | गच्छन्त्यपुनरावृत्तिं ज्ञाननिर्धूतकल्मषाः ||५-१७||

5.17 Their intellect absorbed in That, their self being That, established in That, with That for the...

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VERSE 5.18

विद्याविनयसम्पन्ने ब्राह्मणे गवि हस्तिनि | शुनि चैव श्वपाके च पण्डिताः समदर्शिनः ||५-१८||

5.18 Sages look with an eal eye on a Brahmana endowed with learning and humility, on a cow, on an el...

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VERSE 5.19

इहैव तैर्जितः सर्गो येषां साम्ये स्थितं मनः | निर्दोषं हि समं ब्रह्म तस्माद् ब्रह्मणि ते स्थिताः ||५...

5.19 Even here (in this world) birth (everything) is overcome by those whose minds rest in eality; B...

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VERSE 5.20

न प्रहृष्येत्प्रियं प्राप्य नोद्विजेत्प्राप्य चाप्रियम् | स्थिरबुद्धिरसम्मूढो ब्रह्मविद् ब्रह्मणि स्...

5.20 Resting in Brahman, with steady intellect and undeluded, the knower of Brahman neither rejoicet...

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VERSE 5.21

बाह्यस्पर्शेष्वसक्तात्मा विन्दत्यात्मनि यत्सुखम् | स ब्रह्मयोगयुक्तात्मा सुखमक्षयमश्नुते ||५-२१||

5.21 With the self unattached to external contacts he finds happiness in the Self; with the self eng...

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VERSE 5.22

ये हि संस्पर्शजा भोगा दुःखयोनय एव ते | आद्यन्तवन्तः कौन्तेय न तेषु रमते बुधः ||५-२२||

5.22 The enjoyments that are born of contacts are only generators of pain, for they have a beginning...

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VERSE 5.23

शक्नोतीहैव यः सोढुं प्राक्शरीरविमोक्षणात् | कामक्रोधोद्भवं वेगं स युक्तः स सुखी नरः ||५-२३||

5.23 He who is able, while still here (in this world) to withstand, before the liberation from the b...

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VERSE 5.24

योऽन्तःसुखोऽन्तरारामस्तथान्तर्ज्योतिरेव यः | स योगी ब्रह्मनिर्वाणं ब्रह्मभूतोऽधिगच्छति ||५-२४||

5.24 He who is happy within, who rejoices within, and who is illuminated within, that Yogi attains a...

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VERSE 5.25

लभन्ते ब्रह्मनिर्वाणमृषयः क्षीणकल्मषाः | छिन्नद्वैधा यतात्मानः सर्वभूतहिते रताः ||५-२५||

5.25 The sages (Rishis) obtain absolute freedom or Moksha they whose sins have been destroyed, whos...

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VERSE 5.26

कामक्रोधवियुक्तानां यतीनां यतचेतसाम् | अभितो ब्रह्मनिर्वाणं वर्तते विदितात्मनाम् ||५-२६||

5.26 Absolute freedom (or Brahmic bliss) exists on all sides for those self-controlled ascetics who ...

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VERSE 5.27

स्पर्शान्कृत्वा बहिर्बाह्यांश्चक्षुश्चैवान्तरे भ्रुवोः | प्राणापानौ समौ कृत्वा नासाभ्यन्तरचारिणौ ||५...

5.27 Shutting out (all) external contacts and fixing the gaze between the eyrow, ealising the outgoi...

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VERSE 5.28

यतेन्द्रियमनोबुद्धिर्मुनिर्मोक्षपरायणः | विगतेच्छाभयक्रोधो यः सदा मुक्त एव सः ||५-२८||

5.28 With the senses, the mind and the intellect (ever) controlled, having liberation as his supreme...

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VERSE 5.29

भोक्तारं यज्ञतपसां सर्वलोकमहेश्वरम् | सुहृदं सर्वभूतानां ज्ञात्वा मां शान्तिमृच्छति ||५-२९||

5.29 He who knows Me as the enjoyer of sacrifices and austerities, the great Lord of all the worlds ...

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