Samnyasa Yoga

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Bhagavad Gita

 

V. SAMNYASA YOGA

 

ARJUNA SAID:

 

1. Renunciation of actions, O Krishna, Thou praisest and again Yoga.

Tell me conclusively that which is the better of the two.

 

THE BLESSED LORD SAID:

 

2. Renunciation and yoga through action both lead to the highest

bliss: but, of the two, Yoga through action is esteemed more than

renunciation of action.

 

3. He should be known as a perpetual renouncer who neither hates nor

desires: for, free from the pairs of opposites, O mighty-armed, he is

easily set free from bondage.

 

4. Children, not the wise, speak of Sankhya and Yoga as distinct. He

who is rightly devoted to even one obtains the fruits of both.

 

5. That state which is reached by Sankhyas is reached by Yogins also.

He sees, who sees Sankhya and Yoga as one.

 

6. But renunciation, O mighty-armed, is hard to attain except by

Yoga; a sage equipped with Yoga before long reaches Brahman.

 

7. He who is equipped with Yoga, whose mind is quite pure, by whom

the self has been conquered, whose senses have been subdued, whose

Self has become the Self of all beings - though doing, he is not

tainted.

 

8-9. 'I do nothing at all' - thus would the truth-knower think,

steadfast - though seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating,

going, sleeping, breathing, speaking, letting go, seizing, opening

and closing the eyes - remembering that the senses move among sense-

objects.

 

10. He who does actions, offering them to Brahman, abandoning

attachment, is not tainted by sin, as a lotus leaf by water.

 

11. By the body, by the mind, by the intellect, by mere senses also,

Yogins perform action, without attachment, for the purification of

the self.

 

12. The steady-minded one, abandoning the fruit of action, attains

the peace born of devotion. The unsteady one, attached to the fruit

through the action of desire, is firmly bound.

 

13. Renouncing all actions by thought and Self-controlled, the

embodied one rests happily in the nine-gated city, neither at all

acting nor causing to act.

 

14. Neither agency nor objects does the Lord create for the world,

nor union with the fruits of actions. But it is the nature that acts.

 

15. The Lord takes neither the evil nor even the good deed of any;

wisdom is enveloped by un-wisdom; thereby mortals are deluded.

 

16. But to those whose un-wisdom is destroyed by wisdom of the Self,

like the sun wisdom illuminates that Supreme.

 

17. With their consciousness in That, their Self being That, intent

on That, with That for their supreme goal, they go never again to

return, their sins shaken off by means of wisdom.

 

18. In a Brahmana endued with wisdom and humility, in a cow, in an

elephant, as also in a dog and in a dog-eater, the wise see the same.

 

19. Even here birth is overcome by them whose mind rests on equality.

Spotless, indeed and equal is Brahman; wherefore in Brahman they rest.

 

20. He who knows Brahman can neither rejoice on obtaining the

pleasant, nor grieve on obtaining the unpleasant - steady-minded, un-

deluded, resting in Brahman.

 

21. With the self unattached to external contacts, he finds the joy

which is in the Self; with the Self engaged in the contemplation of

Brahman he attains the endless joy.

 

22. For, those delights which are born of contacts are only

generators of pain, having a beginning and an end, O son of Kunti; a

wise man rejoices not in them.

 

23. He that is able, while still here, to with-stand, before

liberation from the body, the impulse of desire and anger, he is a

Yogin, he is a happy man.

 

24. Whoso has his joy within and his pastime within and whoso has his

light within only, that Yogin attains Brahman's bliss, himself

becoming Brahman.

 

25. The sages attain Brahman's bliss - they whose sins have been

destroyed and doubts removed, who are self-controlled and intent on

the welfare of all beings.

 

26. To the devotees who are free from desire and anger, who have

controlled their thought and who have known the self, Brahman's bliss

exists everywhere.

 

27-28. Shutting out all external contracts and fixing the sight

between the eye-brows, equalising the out-going and the in-going

breaths which pass through the nostrils, controlling the senses, mind

and intellect, having moksha as his highest goal, free from desire,

fear and anger - the sage who ever (remains thus) is verily liberated.

 

29. On knowing Me - the Lord of all sacrifices and austerities, the

Great Lord of all Worlds, the Friend of all beings - he goes to Peace.