Bhagavad Gita 5.5यत्सांख्यैः प्राप्यते स्थानं तद्योगैरपि गम्यते।एकं सांख्यं च योगं च यः पश्यति स पश्यति ॥
yat sānkhyaiḥ prāpyate sthānaṁ tad yogair api gamyate
ekaṁ sānkhyaṁ cha yogaṁ cha yaḥ paśhyati sa paśhyati
Sanskrit recitation
Renounce the clinging, not the work · 5.1–5.12 · Teaching
Translation
That place which is reached by the Sankhyas or the Jnanis is also reached by the Yogis (Karma Yogis). He who sees knowledge and the performance of action (Karma Yoga) as one, sees truly.
Hindi translation
सांख्ययोगियोंके द्वारा जो तत्त्व प्राप्त किया जाता है, कर्मयोगियोंके द्वारा भी वही प्राप्त किया जाता है। अतः जो मनुष्य सांख्ययोग और कर्मयोगको (फलरूपमें) एक देखता है, वही ठीक देखता है।
Meaning
Those who have renounced the world and are treading the path of Jnana Yoga or Vedanta are the Sankhyas. Through Sravana (hearing of the Srutis or Vedantic texts), Manana (reflection on what is heard) and Nididhyasana (constant and profound meditation) they attain to Moksha or Kaivalya directly. Karma Yogis who do selfless service, who perform their duties without expectation of the fruits and who dedicate their actions as offerings unto the Lord also reach the same state as is attained by Sankhyas indirectly through the purification of their heart and renunciation and the conseent dawn of the knowledge of the Self. That man who sees that Sankhya and Yoga are one, as leading to the same result, sees rightly. (Cf.XIII.24,25V.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→
- api
- also
- cha
- and
- tat
- that
- yat
- what
- ekam
- one
- saḥ
- that person
- yaḥ
- who
- yogam
- karm yog
- gamyate
- is attained
- sthānam
- place
- yogaiḥ
- by working in devotion
- paśhyati
- actually sees
- prāpyate
- is attained
- sānkhyam
- renunciation of actions
- sānkhyaiḥ
- by means of karm sanyās
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