Bhagavad Gita 5.4-5

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Sri:

Sri Lakshminrisimha Parabrahmane Namaha

Sri Ramanujaya Namaha

Sri Nigamantha Mahadesikaya Namaha

Sri Lakshminrisimha diva pAduka sEvaka Srivan-

SatakOpa SrI nArAyaNa yateendra mahAdESikAya namaha

 

SRIMAD BHAGAVAD GITA

- translation by Sri.V.N.Gopala Desikan

 

Chapter V

slOkA 4

 

sAnkhya-yogau prthag bAlAh pravadanti na panditAh

ekam apy Asthitah samyag ubhayor vindate phalam

 

Translation :

 

bAlAh - Children( ignorant people)

pravadanti - say

sAnkhya-yogau - that jnAna yOgA and karma yOgA

prthag - are different;

na panditAh - (but) they are not wise people.

Asthitah - By adopting

ekam apy - even one of them

samyag - well,

vindate - (a man) obtains

phalam - fruit

ubhayor - of both.

 

Children (ignorant people) say that jnAna yOgA and

karma yOgA are different; (but) they are not wise people.

By adopting even one of them well, (a man) obtains fruit

of both.

 

Commentary : Ignorant people think that karma yOgA and jnAna

yOgA are different. Unwise people say that karma yOgA brings

about only jnana yOgA; that jnana yOgA alone produces the vision

of the soul; and that the two yOgAs are different, because they

produce different results. But all this is not correct. Both the

yOgAs have only the realisation of the soul as the desired fruit.

So, a person, who adopts any of the two yOgAs, obtains the same

fruit of realisation of the soul.

 

slOkA 5

 

yat sAnkhyaih prApyate sthAnam tad yOgair api gamyate

ekam sAnkhyam cha yogam cha yah pashtayi sa pashyati

 

Translation :

yat - That

sthAnam - goal

prApyate - which is attained

sAnkhyaih - by those doing jnAna yOgA;

tad - that(goal)

gamyate - is attained

yOgaih api - by those doing karma yOgA also.

yah - He, who

pashyati - sees

sAnkhyam cha - jnAna yOgA

yOgam cha - and karma yOgA

ekam - as one,

sa - he

pashyati - sees.

 

That goal which is attained by those doing jnAna yOgA;

that (goal) is attained by those doing karma yOga also.

He, who sees jnAna yOgA and karma yOgA as one, he sees.

 

Commentary : Thus, the fruit obtained by jnAna yOgA is also

obtained by karma yOgA. So, either of the yOgAs can be performed,

for the same result. He who sees thus that both the yOgAs are

the same, since they achieve the same fruit, is the real wise

man. So, either karma yOgA or jnAna yOgA can be performed, for

the same result.

 

adiyEn,

senthil

 

(Courtesy : Sir Visishtadvaita Research Centre)