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Chapter-5
Karma-Sanyas Yog
1: Arjuna said: O krsna,
first of all You ask me to renounce work, and then again
You recommend work with devotion. Now will You kindly
tell me definitely which of the two is more beneficial?
2: The Personality of Godhead replied: The
renunciation of work and work in devotion are both good
for liberation. But, of the two, work in devotional
service is better than renunciation of work.
3: One who neither hates nor desires the fruits of
his activities is known to be always renounced. Such a
person, free from all the dualities, easily overcomes
material bondage and is completely liberated, O mighty
armed Arjuna.
4: Only the ignorant speak of devotional service
[karma-yoga] as being different from the analytical
study of the material world [Sankhya]. Those who are
actually learned say that he who applies himself well to
one of these paths achieves the results of both.
5: One who knows that the position reached by means
of analytical study can also be attained by devotional
service, and who therefore sees analytical study and
devotional service to be on the same level, sees things
as they are.
6: Merely renouncing all activities yet not
engaging in the devotional service of the Lord cannot
make one happy. But a thoughtful person engaged in
devotional service can achieve the Supreme without
delay.
7: One who works in devotion, who is a pure soul,
and who controls his mind and senses is a dear to
everyone, and everyone is dear to him. Though always
working, such a man is never entangled.
8-9: A person in the divine consciousness, although
engaged in seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating,
moving about, sleeping and breathing, always knows
within himself that he actually does nothing at all.
Because while speaking, evacuating, receiving, or
opening or closing his eyes, he always knows that only
the material senses are engaged with their objects and
that he is aloof from them.
10: One who performs his duty without attachment,
surrendering the results unto the Supreme Lord, is
unaffected by sinful action, as the lotus leaf is
untouched by water.
11: The yogis, abandoning attachment, act with
body, mind, intelligence and even with the senses, only
for the purpose of purification.
12: The steadily devoted soul attains unadulterated
peace because he offers the result of all activities to
Me; whereas a person who is not in union with the
Divine, who is greedy for the fruits of his labor,
becomes entangled.
13: When the embodied living being controls his
nature and mentally renounces all actions, he resides
happily in the city of nine gates [the material body],
neither working nor causing work to be done.
14: The embodied spirit, master of the city of his
body, does not create activities, nor does he induce
people to act, nor does he create the fruits of his
action. All this is enacted by the modes of material
nature.
15: Nor does the Supreme Lord assume anyone’s
sinful or pious activities. Embodied beings, however,
are bewildered because of the ignorance which covers
their real knowledge.
16: When, however, one is enlightened with the
knowledge by which nescience is destroyed, then his
knowledge reveals everything, as the sun lights up
everything in the daytime.
17: When one’s intelligence, mind, faith and refuge
are all fixed in the Supreme, then one becomes fully
cleansed of misgivings through complete knowledge and
thus proceeds straight on the path of liberation.
18: The humble sages, by virtue of true knowledge,
see with equal vision a learned and gentle brahmanas, a
cow, an elephant, a dog and a dog-eater [outcaste].
19: Those whose mind are established in sameness
and equanimity have already conquered the conditions of
birth and death. They are flawless like Brahman, and
thus they are already situated in Brahman.
20: A person who neither rejoices upon achieving
something pleasant nor laments upon obtaining something
unpleasant, who is self-intelligent, who is
unbewildered, and who knows the science of God, is
already situated in transcendence.
21: Such a liberated person is not attracted to
material sense pleasure but is always in trance,
enjoying the pleasure within. In this way the
self-realized person enjoys unlimited happiness, for he
concentrates on the Supreme.
22: An intelligent person does not take part in the
sources of misery, which are due to contact with the
material senses. O son of Kunti, such pleasures have a
beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not
delight in them.
23: Before giving up this present body, if one is
able to tolerate the urges of the material senses and
check the force of desire and anger, he is well situated
and is happy in this world.
24: One whose happiness is within, who is active
and rejoices within, and whose aim is inward is actually
the perfect mystic. He is liberated in the Supreme, and
ultimately he attains the Supreme.
25: Those who are beyond the dualities that arise
from doubts, whose minds are engaged within, who are
always busy working for the welfare of all living
beings, and who are free from all sins achieve
liberation in the Supreme.
26: Those who are free from anger and all material
desires, who are self-realized, self-disciplined and
constantly endeavoring for perfection, are assured of
liberation in the Supreme in the very near future.
27-28: Shutting out all external sense objects,
keeping the eyes and vision concentrated between the two
eyebrows, suspending the inward and outward breaths
within the nostrils, and thus controlling the mind,
senses and intelligence, the transcendentalist aiming at
liberation becomes free from desire, fear and anger. One
who is always in this state is certainly liberated.
29: A person in full consciousness of Me, knowing
Me to be the ultimate beneficiary of all sacrifices and
austerities, the Supreme Lord of all planets and
demigods, and the benefactor and well-wisher of all
living entities, attains peace from the pangs of
material miseries.
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