Chapter 5: Karm Sanyās Yog – Path of Renunciation

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1. 5.1 — Arjuna said: O Krishna, You speak of the renunciation of actions, and yet again of selfless service (Karma…
2. 5.2 — The Blessed Lord said: Renunciation of action and Karma Yoga both lead to the highest bliss; but of the two,…
3. 5.3 — One who neither hates nor desires should be known as a perpetual renunciant; for, free from the pairs of…
4. 5.4 — Only the unwise speak of knowledge (Sankhya) and the yoga of action (Karma Yoga) as being distinct; the wise…
5. 5.5 — The state attained by the Jnanis is also attained by the Karma Yogis. He who sees Knowledge and Karma Yoga…
6. 5.6 — But renunciation, O mighty-armed one, is difficult to attain without Karma Yoga; the sage who is steadfast…
7. 5.7 — He who is engaged in the path of selfless action, whose mind is pure, who has conquered his senses and self,…
8. 5.8 — The person who knows the Truth, though engaged in seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, moving,…
9. 5.9 — While speaking, releasing, grasping, opening and closing the eyes, one should realize that it is merely the…
10. 5.10 — One who performs his duty without attachment, surrendering the results unto the Supreme Lord, is untouched…
11. 5.11 — Yogis, having abandoned attachment, perform actions only through the body, mind, intellect, and senses, for…
12. 5.12 — The person who is established in yoga, having abandoned the fruits of action, attains everlasting peace;…
13. 5.13 — Mentally renouncing all actions and self-controlled, the embodied soul dwells happily in the city of nine…
14. 5.14 — The Lord does not create the sense of doership, nor actions, nor the connection between actions and their…
15. 5.15 — The Supreme Lord neither accepts anyone's sin nor their merit; knowledge is enveloped by ignorance, and thus…
16. 5.16 — But for those whose ignorance is destroyed by the knowledge of the Self, that knowledge, like the sun,…
17. 5.17 — Those whose intellect is absorbed in That, whose self is identified with That, who are steadfast in That,…
18. 5.18 — The humble sages, through the lens of true knowledge, perceive the same divine essence in a learned and…
19. 5.19 — Even here in this world, those whose minds are established in equanimity have conquered the cycle of birth…
20. 5.20 — Resting in Brahman, with a steady intellect and undeluded, the knower of Brahman neither rejoices upon…
21. 5.21 — One whose mind is unattached to external sense objects finds the joy that resides within the Self; being…
22. 5.22 — The pleasures derived from contact between the senses and their objects are indeed the sources of sorrow,…
23. 5.23 — He who is able to withstand the force of desire and anger here on earth, before the shedding of the body, is…
24. 5.24 — One who is happy from within, who enjoys the self, and whose illumination is inward, that yogi becomes one…
25. 5.25 — Those sages attain the absolute freedom of liberation whose sins are destroyed, whose dualities are severed,…
26. 5.26 — For those self-controlled ascetics who are free from desire and anger, whose minds are disciplined, and who…
27. 5.27 — Shutting out all external sense objects, keeping the eyes fixed between the eyebrows, and balancing the…
28. 5.28 — With senses, mind, and intellect fully controlled, the sage who has made liberation their supreme goal and…
29. 5.29 — He who knows Me as the enjoyer of all sacrifices and austerities, the great Lord of all the worlds, and the…