Chapter 5
कर्मसंन्यासयोग
Karma Sanyasa Yoga
The fifth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita is "Karma Sanyasa Yoga". In this chapter, Krishna compares the paths of renunciation in actions (Karma Sanyas) and actions with detachment (Karma Yoga) and explains that both are means to reach the same goal and we can choose either. A wise person should perform his/her worldly duties without attachment to the fruits of his/her actions and dedicate them to God. This way they remain unaffected by sin and eventually attain liberation.
अर्जुन उवाच |...
5.1 Arjuna said Renunciation of actions, O Krishna, Thou praisest, and again Yoga. Tell me conclusi...
श्रीभगवानुवाच |...
5.2 The Blessed Lord said Renunciation and the Yoga of action both lead to the highest bliss; but o...
ज्ञेयः स नित्यसंन्यासी यो न द्वेष्टि न काङ्क्षति |...
5.3 He should be known as a perpertual Sannyasi who neither hates nor desires; for, free from the pa...
साङ्ख्ययोगौ पृथग्बालाः प्रवदन्ति न पण्डिताः |...
5.4 Children, not the wise, speak of knowledge and the Yoga of action or the performance of action a...
यत्साङ्ख्यैः प्राप्यते स्थानं तद्योगैरपि गम्यते |...
5.5 That place which is reached by the Sankhyas or the Jnanis is reached by the Yogis (Karma Yogis)....
संन्यासस्तु महाबाहो दुःखमाप्तुमयोगतः |...
5.6 But renunciation, O mighty-armed Arjuna, is hard to attain without Yoga; the Yoga-harmonised sag...
योगयुक्तो विशुद्धात्मा विजितात्मा जितेन्द्रियः |...
5.7 He who is devoted to the path of action, whose mind is ite pure, who has conered the self, who h...
नैव किञ्चित्करोमीति युक्तो मन्येत तत्त्ववित् |...
5.8 "I do nothing at all," thus would the harmonised knower of Truth think seeing, hearing, touchin...
प्रलपन्विसृजन्गृह्णन्नुन्मिषन्निमिषन्नपि |...
5.9 Speaking, letting go, seizing, opening and closing the eyes convinced that the senses move amon...
ब्रह्मण्याधाय कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा करोति यः |...
5.10 He who does actions, offering them to Brahman, and abandoning attachment, is not tainted by sin...
कायेन मनसा बुद्ध्या केवलैरिन्द्रियैरपि |...
5.11 Yogis, having abandoned attachment, perform actions only by the body, mind, intellect, and even...
युक्तः कर्मफलं त्यक्त्वा शान्तिमाप्नोति नैष्ठिकीम् |...
5.12 The united one (the well poised or the harmonised) having abandoned the fruit of action attains...
सर्वकर्माणि मनसा संन्यस्यास्ते सुखं वशी |...
5.13 Mentally renouncing all actions and self-controlled, the embodied one rests happily in the nine...
न कर्तृत्वं न कर्माणि लोकस्य सृजति प्रभुः |...
5.14 Neither agency nor actions does the Lord create for the world, nor union with the fruits of act...
नादत्ते कस्यचित्पापं न चैव सुकृतं विभुः |...
5.15 The Lord takes neither the demerit nor even the merit of any; knowledge is enveloped by ignoran...
ज्ञानेन तु तदज्ञानं येषां नाशितमात्मनः |...
5.16 But to those whose ignorance is destroyed by the knowledge of the Self, like the sun, knowledge...
तद्बुद्धयस्तदात्मानस्तन्निष्ठास्तत्परायणाः |...
5.17 Their intellect absorbed in That, their self being That, established in That, with That for the...
विद्याविनयसम्पन्ने ब्राह्मणे गवि हस्तिनि |...
5.18 Sages look with an eal eye on a Brahmana endowed with learning and humility, on a cow, on an el...
इहैव तैर्जितः सर्गो येषां साम्ये स्थितं मनः |...
5.19 Even here (in this world) birth (everything) is overcome by those whose minds rest in eality; B...
न प्रहृष्येत्प्रियं प्राप्य नोद्विजेत्प्राप्य चाप्रियम् |...
5.20 Resting in Brahman, with steady intellect and undeluded, the knower of Brahman neither rejoicet...
बाह्यस्पर्शेष्वसक्तात्मा विन्दत्यात्मनि यत्सुखम् |...
5.21 With the self unattached to external contacts he finds happiness in the Self; with the self eng...
ये हि संस्पर्शजा भोगा दुःखयोनय एव ते |...
5.22 The enjoyments that are born of contacts are only generators of pain, for they have a beginning...
शक्नोतीहैव यः सोढुं प्राक्शरीरविमोक्षणात् |...
5.23 He who is able, while still here (in this world) to withstand, before the liberation from the b...
योऽन्तःसुखोऽन्तरारामस्तथान्तर्ज्योतिरेव यः |...
5.24 He who is happy within, who rejoices within, and who is illuminated within, that Yogi attains a...
लभन्ते ब्रह्मनिर्वाणमृषयः क्षीणकल्मषाः |...
5.25 The sages (Rishis) obtain absolute freedom or Moksha they whose sins have been destroyed, whos...
कामक्रोधवियुक्तानां यतीनां यतचेतसाम् |...
5.26 Absolute freedom (or Brahmic bliss) exists on all sides for those self-controlled ascetics who ...
स्पर्शान्कृत्वा बहिर्बाह्यांश्चक्षुश्चैवान्तरे भ्रुवोः |...
5.27 Shutting out (all) external contacts and fixing the gaze between the eyrow, ealising the outgoi...
यतेन्द्रियमनोबुद्धिर्मुनिर्मोक्षपरायणः |...
5.28 With the senses, the mind and the intellect (ever) controlled, having liberation as his supreme...
भोक्तारं यज्ञतपसां सर्वलोकमहेश्वरम् |...
5.29 He who knows Me as the enjoyer of sacrifices and austerities, the great Lord of all the worlds ...