5.6 संन्यासस्तु महाबाहो दुःखमाप्तुमयोगतः। योगयुक्तो मुनिर्ब्रह्म नचिरेणाधिगच्छति
saṃnyāsas
Word meanings
sanyāsaḥ—renunciation;tu—but;mahā-bāho—mighty-armed one;duḥkham—distress;āptum—attains;ayogataḥ—without karm-yog;yoga-yuktaḥ—one who is adept in karm-yog;muniḥ—a sage;brahma—Brahman;na chireṇa—quickly;adhigachchhati—goes
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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O mighty-armed Arjuna! Renunciation is indeed hard to attain, except through Yoga; the sage who is the master of Yoga quickly attains the Brahman.
Without concentration, O Mighty Man, renunciation is difficult. But the sage who is always meditating on the Divine, before long shall attain the Absolute.
But renunciation, O mighty-armed, is hard to attain without (following) Yoga. The contemplating sage who follows Yoga reaches the Brahman (the self or Atman) soon.
But, O mighty-armed one, renunciation is hard to attain without (Karma-) yoga. The meditative man equipped with yoga attains Brahman without delay.
But renunciation, O mighty-armed Arjuna, is hard to attain without Yoga; the Yoga-harmonised sage proceeds quickly to Brahman!
5.8 नैव किंचित्करोमीति युक्तो मन्येत तत्त्ववित्। पश्यन् श्रृणवन्स्पृशञ्जिघ्रन्नश्नन्गच्छन्स्वपन् श्वसन्
na
Word meanings
na—not;eva—certainly;kiñchit—anything;karomi—I do;iti—thus;yuktaḥ—steadfast in karm yog;manyeta—thinks;tattva-vit—one who knows the truth;paśhyan—seeing;śhṛiṇvan—hearing;spṛiśhan—touching;jighran—smelling;aśhnan—eating;gachchhan—moving;svapan—sleeping;śhvasan—breathing
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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A master of Yoga, knowing the reality, would think, 'I do not perform any action at all.' For, he who, while seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, going, sleeping, and breathing;
Though the saint sees, hears, touches, smells, eats, moves, sleeps and breathes, yet he knows the Truth, and he knows that it is not he who acts.
The knower of the truth, who is devoted to Yoga should think, 'I do not at all do anything' even though he is seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, moving, sleeping, breathing;
Remaining absorbed in the Self, the knower of Reality should think, 'I certainly do not do anything', even while seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, moving, sleeping, breathing, speaking, releasing, holding, opening and closing the eyes-remembering that the organs function in relation to the objects of the organs.
“I do nothing at all”–thus will the harmonised knower of Truth think–seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, going, sleeping, breathing,
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कर्मसंन्यासयोग
Chapter 5: Renounce Through Works
karmasaṃnyāsayoga
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5.7 योगयुक्तो विशुद्धात्मा विजितात्मा जितेन्द्रियः। सर्वभूतात्मभूतात्मा कुर्वन्नपि न लिप्यते
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Word meanings
yoga-yuktaḥ—united in consciousness with God;viśhuddha-ātmā—one with purified intellect;vijita-ātmā—one who has conquered the mind;jita-indriyaḥ—having conquered the senses;sarva-bhūta-ātma-bhūta-ātmā—one who sees the Soul of all souls in every living being;kurvan—performing;api—although;na—never;lipyate—entangled
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
Translation stream
A master of yoga, whose self (mind and intellect) is very pure, the sense-organs are controlled, and the soul is realized to be the soul of all beings—he is not stained, even though he is a performer of actions.
He who is spiritual, who is pure, who has overcome his senses and his personal self, who has realised his highest Self as the Self of all, such a one, even though he acts, is not bound by his acts.
He who follows the Yoga and is pure in self (mind), who has subdued his self and has conquered his senses and whose self has become the self of all beings, even while he is acting, he is untainted.
Endowed with yoga, [i.e. devoted to the performance of the nitya and naimittika duties.] pure in mind, controlled in body, a conqueror of the organs, the Self of the selves of all beings-he does not become tainted even while performing actions. [The construction of the sentence is this: When this person resorts to nitya and naimittika rites and duties as a means to the achievement of fully Illumination, and thus becomes fully enlightened, then, even when he acts through the apparent functions of the mind, organs, etc., he does not become affected.]
He who is devoted to the path of action, whose mind is quite pure, who has conquered the self, who has subdued his senses and who has realised his Self as the Self in all beings, though acting, he is not tainted.
