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BHAGVAD-GITA
Chapter - 5
"The Yoga Of Renunciation Of Action"
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This chapter focuses on the way of work and the way of renunciation also called
sankhya.Therefore this chapter is entitled "The yoga of Renunciation of Action".
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Arjuna Said
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O Krishna, you praise the renunciation of works and then also their performance
without being attached to them. Let me know definitely, which way is better
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Bhagwan Sri Krishna Said |
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The renunciation of the works and their performance without attachment, both
lead to the salvation. But of the two doing the work without attachment is
better. |
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The ignorants differenciate between renunciation (sankhya) and performance of
work with detachment (yoga), not for the wise. A person devoted to any way
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O, Arjuna however, it is difficult it to attain renunciation without yoga. The
wise who is steeped in the way of yoga reaches the ultimate goal quickly.
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Who has toiled in the path of a action and has a prior soul, who has subdued
the senses and has conquered the self, is not get attached to the work while
performing it. |
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The one who has become one with the god and knows the truth believes "I do not
act at all" because seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting,
walking, sleeping, breathing, speaking, leaving, taking, opening and shutting
the eyes he understands that only the senses are acting upon the objects of
senses.
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Who works without attachment, resigning his works to God, is not touched by sin
like a lotus leaf in water.The yogis do work only with, the body, mind and
intelligence, foresaking attachment for the purification of their souls.
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The devoted yogis, detached to the fruits of their actions, attains peace but
one whose soul is not immersed into divine, is attached to the fruits and
remain under bondage. The yogi, who has controlled his senses through
renunication lives in this house of nine gates (body) at peace, neither working
nor causing the work to be done by others.
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The supreme being does not create for the people the action or the doer of the
act. He also does not cause the action to be united with its fruits. The nature
does all these things. The all pervading God does not accept sins of someone or
his good deeds. Wisdom is under the cover of ignorance, this causes illusion
among the living.
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But the persons whose ignorance is destroyed by knowledge, for them, knowledge
lights up the self like the sun.Contemplating on self and directing ones total
consciousness towards self making self as the sole object of devotion, they
reach the state from where there is no return possible, and their sins are
perished through wisdom.
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A learned and humble brahmin, a cow, an elephant, and even a dog or an outcaste
are equal in the eyes of the sage.Those whose mind is set in equality, conquer
this world while living here, God is free of sins and even to all. Therefore,
these (persons) are settled in God.
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One should not feel happy on getting something pleasant not should one be
unhappy if something unpleasant occurs; One who is steady in such wisdom and
unperturbed, such known person of the truth resides in God.
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When the self is not attached with the wordly objects one reach the happiness
which is in the self. Such a one, who is disciplined in yoga with God, finds
unlimited bliss. Pleasures resulting from the contact of senses with the
objects only cause misery and they are temporary, O Arjuna, no wiseman finds
pleasure in these.
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One who can withstand the wave of desire and anger is a yogi here in this
world, he enjoys peace. The one who attains peace in self, joy in self and
light in self, is a yogi, he attains to the divine bliss. |
The pious, whose sins are destroyed, whose duality is cut through, whose minds
are single-pointed abide in God, who work for the welfare of all, attain the
grace of God. Those who observe stern discipline (yatis), cleansed of desire
and anger, and who have controlled their minds and know the self reach the
ultimate goal. |
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Unmindful of all external objects fixing the sight between the eyebrows, making
even the inwards and outwards breaths moving through the nostrils.The sage,
having controlled the senses, mind and intelligence, keen about liberation of
his soul, who has done away with desire, fear and anger, is freed of all the
bondages.
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Knowing me as the enjoyer of the sacrifices and the Lord of all the worlds, The
Friend of all the beings, the sage attains the peace. |
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This is the fifth chapter entitled "The Yoga of Renunciation in Action." |
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