Bhagavad Gita 5.1अर्जुन उवाच संन्यासं कर्मणां कृष्ण पुनर्योगं च शंससि।यच्छ्रेय एतयोरेकं तन्मे ब्रूहि सुनिश्िचतम् ॥
arjuna uvācha sannyāsaṁ karmaṇāṁ kṛiṣhṇa punar yogaṁ cha
śhansasi yach chhreya etayor ekaṁ tan me brūhi su-niśhchitam
Sanskrit recitation
Renounce the clinging, not the work · 5.1–5.12 · Teaching
Translation
Arjuna said, "O Krishna, you praise renunciation of actions and also yoga. Please tell me conclusively which is better of the two."
Hindi translation
अर्जुन बोले -- हे कृष्ण ! आप कर्मोंका स्वरूपसे त्याग करनेकी और फिर कर्मयोगकी प्रशंसा करते हैं। अतः इन दोनों साधनोंमें जो एक निश्चितरूपसे कल्याणकारक हो, उसको मेरे लिये कहिये।
Meaning
Thou teachest renunciation of actions and also their performance. This has confused me. Tell decisively now which is better. It is not possible for a man to resort to both of them at the same time. Yoga here means Karma Yoga. (Cf.III.2)
After Swami Sivananda
Renounce the clinging, not the work· 5.1–5.12→
Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.
5.1Arjuna said, "O Krishna, you praise renunciation of actions and also yoga. Please tell me…
- 5.2The Blessed Lord said, "Renunciation and the Yoga of action both lead to the highest…
- 5.3He should be known as a perpetual Sannyasi who neither hates nor desires; for, free from…
- 5.4Children, not the wise, speak of knowledge and the Yoga of action, or the performance of…
- 5.5That place which is reached by the Sankhyas or the Jnanis is also reached by the Yogis…
- 5.6But, O mighty-armed Arjuna, renunciation is hard to attain without Yoga; the sage who is…
- 5.7He who is devoted to the path of action, whose mind is pure, who has conquered the self,…
- 5.8I do nothing at all," thus would the harmonized knower of Truth think, seeing, hearing,…
- 5.9Speaking, letting go, seizing, opening, and closing the eyes, one should be convinced that…
- 5.10He who does actions, offering them to Brahman and abandoning attachment, is not tainted by…
- 5.11Yogis, having abandoned attachment, perform actions only through the body, mind,…
- 5.12The one who is united (the well-poised or harmonized) having abandoned the fruit of action…
Word-by-word→
- me
- unto me
- cha
- also
- tat
- that
- yat
- which
- ekam
- one
- yogam
- about karm yog
- brūhi
- please tell
- punaḥ
- again
- etayoḥ
- of the two
- sanyāsam
- renunciation
- śhansasi
- you praise
- śhreyaḥ
- more beneficial
- karmaṇām
- of actions
- kṛiṣhṇa
- Shree Krishna
- su-niśhchitam
- conclusively
- arjunaḥ uvācha
- Arjun said
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