Bhagavad Gita 5.4सांख्ययोगौ पृथग्बालाः प्रवदन्ति न पण्डिताः।एकमप्यास्थितः सम्यगुभयोर्विन्दते फलम् ॥
sānkhya-yogau pṛithag bālāḥ pravadanti na
paṇḍitāḥ ekamapyāsthitaḥ samyag ubhayor vindate phalam
Sanskrit recitation
Renounce the clinging, not the work · 5.1–5.12 · Teaching
Translation
Children, not the wise, speak of knowledge and the Yoga of action, or the performance of action, as though they are distinct and different; he who is truly established in one, obtains the fruits of both.
Hindi translation
बेसमझ लोग सांख्ययोग और कर्मयोगको अलग-अलग फलवाले कहते हैं, न कि पण्डितजन; क्योंकि इन दोनोंमेंसे एक साधनमें भी अच्छी तरहसे स्थित मनुष्य दोनोंके फलरूप परमात्माको प्राप्त कर लेता है।
Meaning
Children the ignorant people who have no knowledge of the Self, and who have only a theoretical knowledge of the scriptures.Children or ignorant people only say that knowledge and the performance of action are different and produce distinct and opposite results. But the wise who have the knowledge of the Self say that they produce the same result only, viz., Moksha or liberation. He who is duly established in,one, he who truly lives in one, Sankhya or Yoga, obtains the fruits of both. Therefore there is no diversity in the result or the fruit. This is the gist of this verse. (Cf.VI.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→
- na
- never
- api
- even
- ekam
- in one
- yogau
- karm yog
- phalam
- the result
- samyak
- completely
- vindate
- achieve
- sānkhya
- renunciation of actions
- bālāḥ
- the ignorant
- pṛithak
- different
- ubhayoḥ
- of both
- pravadanti
- say
- āsthitaḥ
- being situated
- paṇḍitāḥ
- the learned
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