Chapter 5

English Meaning Adhyay FiveThe Yoga of Action and Knowledge

Acknowledgements 

English meaning shown here are from the pocket edition of Gita, originaly written in Hindi by Shri Jayadyal Goyandka. This was later translated and published by Gita Press Gorakhpur. Gita Press by now,havepublished over 320 millions copies of Gita in different languages

.	Arjuna said
1	Krishna, you extol Sankhya yoga ( the yoga of knowledge ) and then Yoga of action. Pray tell me which of the two is decidedly conducive to my good.
.	Shree Bhagwan said
2	The yoga of knowledge and yoga of action both lead to supreme bliss. Of the two , however, the yoga of action ( being easier of practice ) is superior to the yoga of knowledge.
3	The karma yogi who neither hates nor desires should be ever considered a renouncer. For, Arjuna, he who is free from the pairs of opposites is easily freed from the bondage.
4	It is the ignorant, not the wise, who says that Sankhya yoga and Karma yoga lead to divergent results. For one who is firmly established in either gets the fruit of both ( which is the same viz, God Realization ).
5	The ( supreme ) state which is reached by the Sankhya yogi is attained also by Karma yogi. Therefore, he alone who seers Sankhya yoga and Karma yoga as one ( so far results are concerned ) really sees.
6	Without Karma yoga, however, Sankhya yoga ( or renunciation of doer ship in relation to all activities of mind, senses and body ) is difficult to accomplish; whereas the Karma yogi who keeps his mind fixed on God, reaches Brahma in no time.
7	The Karma yogi, who has fully conquered his mind and mastered his senses, whose heart is pure, and who has identified himself with the Self of all beings ( viz., God ), remains untainted, even though performing action.
8	The Sankhya yogi , however, who knows the reality of things, must believe, even though seeing, hearing, touching, smelling eating or drinking, walking, sleeping, breathing,
9	speaking, answering the calls of nature, grasping, and opening or closing the eyes, that he does nothing, holding that it is the senses that are moving among their objects.
.	Virodh-aabhaas ?
10	He who acts offering all actions to God, and shaking off attachment, remains untouched by sin, as the lotus leaf by water.
11	The karma yogis perform action only with their senses, mind, intellect and body as well, withdrawing the feeling of mine in respect of them and shaking off attachment, simply for the sake of self purification.
12	Offering the fruits of actions to God, the Karma yogi attains ever lasting peace in the shape of God-Realization, whereas, he who works with a selfish motive, being attached to the fruit of actions through desire, gets tied down.
13	The self-controlled Sankhya yogi, doing nothing himself and getting nothing done by others, rests happily in God, the embodiment of Truth, Knowledge, and Bliss mentally relegating all actions to the mansion of nine gates ( the body with nine holes ).
14	God determines not the doer ship nor the doings of men, nor even their contact with the fruit of actions; but it is Nature alone that functions.
15	The omnipresent God does not receive the virtue or sin of any one. Knowledge is enveloped with ignorance; hence it is that beings are constantly falling a prey to delusion.
16	In the case, however, of those whose said ignorance has been set aside by true Knowledge of God, that wisdom shining like the sun reveals the supreme.
17	Those whose mind and intellect are wholly merged in Him, who remains constantly established in identity with Him, and have finally become one with Him, their sins being wiped out by wisdom, reach the state whence there is no return.
18	The wise look with the same eye on Brahman endowed with learning and culture, a cow, an elephant, dog and a pariah too.
19	Even here is the moral plane conquered by those whose mind is established in unity; since the Absolute is untouched by evil and knows no distinction, hence they are established in the Eternal.
20	He who, with reason firm and free from doubt, rejoices not on obtaining what is pleasant and does not feel perturbed on meeting with the unpleasant, that knower of Brahma lives eternally in identity with Brahma.
5.21	He whose mind remains unattached to sense-objects, derives through meditation the Sattvika joy which dwells in mind; then that yogi, having completely identified himself through meditation with Brahma, enjoys eternal Bliss.
5.22	The pleasure which are born of sense-contacts are verily a source of suffering only ( though appearing as enjoyable to the worldly-minded people ). They have a beginning and an end ( they come and go ). Arjuna, it is for this reason that a wise man does not indulge in them.
5.23	He alone who is able to stand, in this very life before casting off this body, the urges of lust and anger is a yogi; and he alone is a happy man.
5.24	He who is happy within himself, enjoys within himself the delight of the soul, and even so is illumined by the inner light ( light of the soul ), such a yogi ( Sankhya yogi ) identified with Brahma attains Brahma, who is all peace.
5.25	The seers whose sins have been wiped out, whose doubts have been dispelled by knowledge, whose disciplined mind is firmly established in God and who are actively engaged in the service of all beings, attain Brahma, who is all peace.
5.26	To those wise men who are free from lust and anger, who have subdued their mind and have realized God, Brahma, the abode of eternal peace is present all around.
27 28	Shutting out thoughts of external enjoyments, with the gaze fixed on all the space between the eye-brows, having regulated the Praana ( outgoing ) and Apaan ( in going ), breaths flowing within the nostrils, he who has brought his senses , mind and intellect under control, -- such a contemplative soul intent on liberation and free from desire , fear and anger, is ever liberated.
29	Having known Me in reality as the enjoyer of all sacrifices and austerities, the supreme Lord of all the worlds, and the disinterested friend of all beings, My devotee attains peace.
end	Thus in the Upanishad sung by the Lord, the Science of Brahma, the scripture of Yoga, the dialogue between Shree Krishna and Arjuna, ends the fifth chapter entitled " The Yoga of Action and Knowledge "