Bhagavad Gita 2.48 · Yogasthah Kuru Karmaniयोगस्थः कुरु कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा धनञ्जय।सिद्ध्यसिद्ध्योः समो भूत्वा समत्वं योग उच्यते ॥
yoga-sthaḥ kuru karmāṇi saṅgaṁ tyaktvā dhanañjaya
siddhy-asiddhyoḥ samo bhūtvā samatvaṁ yoga uchyate
Sanskrit recitation
Act without clinging to the fruit · 2.47–2.53 · Teaching
Translation
Perform action, O Arjuna, being steadfast in Yoga, abandoning attachment and balanced in success and failure; evenness of mind is called Yoga.
Hindi translation
हे धनञ्जय ! तू आसक्तिका त्याग करके सिद्धि-असिद्धिमें सम होकर योगमें स्थित हुआ कर्मोंको कर; क्योंकि समत्व ही योग कहा जाता है।
Meaning
Dwelling in union with the Divine perform actions merely for Gods sake with a balanced mind in success and failure. Eilibrium is Yoga. The attainment of the knowledge of the Self through purity of heart obtained by doing actions without expectation of fruits is success (Siddhi). Failure is the nonattainment of knowledge by doing actions with expectation of fruit. (Cf.III.9IV.14IV.20).
After Swami Sivananda
Act without clinging to the fruit· 2.47–2.53→
Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.
- 2.47Your right is only to work, but not to its results; do not let the results of action be…
2.48Perform action, O Arjuna, being steadfast in Yoga, abandoning attachment and balanced in…
- 2.49Far lower than the Yoga of wisdom is action, O Arjuna. Seek thou refuge in wisdom;…
- 2.50Endowed with wisdom and evenness of mind, one casts off in this life both good and evil…
- 2.51The wise, possessing knowledge, having abandoned the fruits of their actions, and being…
- 2.52When your intellect passes beyond the mire of delusion, then you will attain indifference…
- 2.53When your intellect, which is perplexed by the Vedic texts you have read, stands immovable…
Word-by-word→
- kuru
- perform
- samaḥ
- equipoised
- uchyate
- is called
- yogaḥ
- Yog
- bhūtvā
- becoming
- samatvam
- equanimity
- saṅgam
- attachment
- tyaktvā
- having abandoned
- karmāṇi
- duties
- dhanañjaya
- Arjun
- yoga-sthaḥ
- being steadfast in yog
- siddhi-asiddhyoḥ
- in success and failure
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