3.4 न कर्मणामनारम्भान्नैष्कर्म्यं पुरुषोऽश्नुते। न च संन्यसनादेव सिद्धिं समधिगच्छति
na karmaṇām
Word meanings
na—not;karmaṇām—of actions;anārambhāt—by abstaining from;naiṣhkarmyam—freedom from karmic reactions;puruṣhaḥ—a person;aśhnute—attains;na—not;cha—and;sannyasanāt—by renunciation;eva—only;siddhim—perfection;samadhigachchhati—attains
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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A person attains actionlessness not just by abstaining from actions, but also by renunciation, he attains success (emancipation).
No man can attain freedom from activity by refraining from action; nor can he reach perfection by merely refusing to act.
No man experiences freedom from activity (Naiskarmya) by abstaining from works; and no man ever attains success by mere renunciation of works.
A person does not attain freedom from action by abstaining from action; nor does he attain fulfilment merely through renunciation.
Not by the non-performance of actions does man reach actionlessness, nor by mere renunciation does he attain to perfection.
3.6 कर्मेन्द्रियाणि संयम्य य आस्ते मनसा स्मरन्। इन्द्रियार्थान्विमूढात्मा मिथ्याचारः स उच्यते
karm
Word meanings
karma-indriyāṇi—the organs of action;sanyamya—restrain;yaḥ—who;āste—remain;manasā—in the mind;smaran—to remember;indriya-arthān—sense objects;vimūḍha-ātmā—the deluded;mithyā-āchāraḥ—hypocrite;saḥ—they;uchyate—are called
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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Controlling their organs of action, whoever sits with their mind pondering over sense objects—that person is a man of deluded soul and is called a man of deluded action.
He who remains motionless, refusing to act, but all the while brooding over sensuous object, that deluded soul is simply a hypocrite.
He who, controlling the organs of action, lets his mind dwell on the objects of senses, is a deluded person and a hypocrite.
One, who after withdrawing the organs of action, sits mentally recollecting the objects of the senses, that one, of deluded mind, is called a hypocrite.
He who, restraining the organs of action, sits thinking of the sense-objects in mind, he, of deluded understanding, is called a hypocrite.
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कर्मयोग
Chapter 3: Karma Yoga
karmayoga
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3.5 न हि कश्चित्क्षणमपि जातु तिष्ठत्यकर्मकृत्। कार्यते ह्यवशः कर्म सर्वः प्रकृतिजैर्गुणैः
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Word meanings
na—not;hi—certainly;kaśhchit—anyone;kṣhaṇam—a moment;api—even;jātu—ever;tiṣhṭhati—can remain;akarma-kṛit—without action;kāryate—are performed;hi—certainly;avaśhaḥ—helpless;karma—work;sarvaḥ—all;prakṛiti-jaiḥ—born of material nature;guṇaiḥ—by the qualities
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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For, no one can ever remain, even for a moment, as a non-performer of action; because everyone, not being master of themselves, is forced to perform action by the strands born of the Prakriti (Material cause).
He cannot even for a moment remain really inactive, for the Qualities of Nature will compel him to act whether he will or no.
No man can, even for a moment, rest without doing work; for everyone is caused to act, in spite of himself, by the Gunas born of Nature.
Because, no one ever remains even for a moment without doing work. For all are made to work under compulsion by the gunas born of Nature.
Verily none can ever remain for even a moment without performing action; for, everyone is made to act helplessly indeed by the qualities born of Nature.
