Bhagavad Gita 5.2-3

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Sri:

Sri Lakshminrisimha parbrahmane Namaha

Sri Ramanujaya Namaha

Sri Nigamantha Mahadesikaya Namaha

Sri Lakshminrisimha divya pAdukA sEvaka Srivan-

SatakOpa SrI nArAyaNa yateendra mahAdESikAya namaha

 

SRIMAD BHAGAVAD GITA

- translation by Sri.V.N.Gopala Desikan

 

Chapter V

slOkA 2

shri bhagavan uvAcha :

sannyAsah karma-yOgash cha nihshreyasa-karAv ubhau

tayos to karma-sannyAsAt karma-yogo vishisyate

 

Translation :

shri BhagavAn uvAcha - KrishnA said:

ubhau - Both

sannyAsah - jnAna yOgA

karma-yOgAsh cha - and karma yOgA

nihshreyasa-karau - do the highest good;

tayoh tu - of the two

karma-yOgah - karma yogA

vishisyate - is better

karma-sannyAsat - than jnAna yOgA.

 

KrishnA said : Both jnAna yOgA and karma yOgA do the highest

good; but between these karma yOgA is better than jnAna

yOgA.

 

Commentary :

Krishna said : Both karma yOgA and jnAna yOgA bring the

highest good ( of realising the soul) to a person, even

if he is fit for jnAna yOgA. Both are independent of each

other. But , of the two, karma yOgA is better than jnAna

yOgA. Why?

 

SlOkA 3

 

jneyah sa nitya-sannyAsi yo na dveshti na kAnksati

nirdvandvo hi mahA-bAho sukham bandhAt pramuchyate

 

Translation :

 

mahA-bAho - ArjunA ( of mighty arms),

yah sah - he , who

na dveshti - does not hate

na kanksati - and does not desire;

nirdvandvo - and who is free from the pairs

of opposites;

jneyah - is to be known

nitya-sannyAsi - as always engaged in jnAna yOgA.

pramuchyate - (He) is released

bandhAt - from the bondage ( of samsArA)

sukham - easily.

 

ArjunA (of mighty arms), he, who does not hate and does

not desire; and who is free from the pairs of opposites;

is to be known as always engaged in jnAna yOgA. (He) is

released from the bondage (of samsArA) easily.

 

Commentary : If a person doing karma yOgA, is happy with the

experience of the soul ; does not desire anything else; does

not hate anything or anybody; bears pleasures and pains

equally calmly; then he should be considered as devoted to

the discipline of knowledge also. He is easily liberated

from the bondage of samsArA. Karma yOgA is also easy to do.

 

adiyEn,

senthil

 

(Courtesy : Sir Visishtadvaita Research Centre)