BHAGAVAD-GITA 6:2

[Guest guest]

BHAGAVAD-GITA 6:2

 

yam sannyasam iti prahur

yogam tam viddhi pandava

na hy asannyasta-sankalpo

yogi bhavati kascana

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

yam--what; sannyasam--renunciation; iti--thus; prahuh--they say;

yogam--linking with the Supreme; tam--that; viddhi--you must know;

pandava--O son of Pandu; na--never; hi--certainly; asannyasta--without

giving up; sankalpah--desire for self-satisfaction; yogi--a mystic

transcendentalist; bhavati--becomes; kascana--anyone.

 

TRANSLATION

 

What is called renunciation you should know to be the same as yoga, or

linking oneself with the Supreme, O son of Pandu, for one can never

become a yogi unless he renounces the desire for sense gratification.

 

PURPORT

 

Real sannyasa-yoga or bhakti means that one should know his

constitutional position as the living entity, and act accordingly. The

living entity has no separate independent identity. He is the marginal

energy of the Supreme. When he is entrapped by material energy, he is

conditioned, and when he is Krsna conscious, or aware of the spiritual

energy, then he is in his real and natural state of life. Therefore,

when one is in complete knowledge, one ceases all material sense

gratification, or renounces all kinds of sense gratificatory

activities. This is practiced by the yogis who restrain the senses

from material attachment. But a person in Krsna consciousness has no

opportunity to engage his senses in anything which is not for the

purpose of Krsna. Therefore, a Krsna conscious person is

simultaneously a sannyasi and a yogi. The purpose of knowledge and of

restraining the senses, as prescribed in the jnana and yoga processes,

is automatically served in Krsna consciousness. If one is unable to

give up the activities of his selfish nature, then jnana and yoga are

of no avail. The real aim is for a living entity to give up all

selfish satisfaction and to be prepared to satisfy the Supreme. A

Krsna conscious person has no desire for any kind of self-enjoyment.

He is always engaged for the enjoyment of the Supreme. One who has no

information of the Supreme must therefore be engaged in

self-satisfaction, because no one can stand on the platform of

inactivity. All purposes are perfectly served by the practice of Krsna

consciousness.

 

Copyright 1983 The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International. Used with

permission.