CHAPTER
5: THE YOGA OF WORK IN DETACHMENT
About the reality of
detachment.
(1)
Arjuna said: 'Krishna, You as well praise the
renunciation of fruitive labor as the practice of yoga.
Please tell me which one is definitely more beneficial of
the two.'
(2)
The Supreme Lord replied: 'Renouncing and also action in
yoga lead both to the path of liberation, but compared to
the renunciation of fruitive labor, the action in yoga is
the better of the two. (3)
He should always be known as a renouncing one who never
likes or dislikes and who is free from the duality, as
certainly, o mighty armed one, he is happy who is
liberated from being bound that way. (4)
The less intelligent see the analytic and the work of
yoga as different, but not so the learned ones. Situated
in either one of them one will enjoy the complete of the
result of both. (5)
He who places what one achieves by analysis at the same
level as what one achieves by work done in yoga and thus
sees study and selfless action as one, actually sees it
as it is.
(6)
But, renunciation, o mighty armed one, will afflict one
with distress if one is without devotion, while a thinker
united in selfless action reaches the Supreme without
delay. (7)
Connected in yoga a purified soul, who is self controlled
and has mastered his senses, is in compassion with all
living beings and although engaged in action he is never
affected. (8-9)
'In divine consciousness I certainly never do anything'
thus thinks one who knows the truth in his seeing,
hearing, touching, smelling, eating, going, dreaming and
breathing. Despite of his talking, forsaking, accepting,
opening and closing his eyes he considers it as an
engagement of the senses. (10)
He who dedicates all his works to the spiritual forsaking
of his attachments is never affected by sin like a
lotusleaf is in the water. (11)
With their body, mind and intelligence purified
yogîs even with their senses are acting in giving
up the attachments for the sake of the soul.
(12)
United in giving up the fruits they unflinching attain to
perfect peace while the ones unconnected in the desire to
enjoy the results are entrapped in attachment.
(13)
By his thinking giving up all activities and remaining in
happiness, the one who is controlled resides in the city
of nine gates and thus the embodied soul for sure never
does anything nor does he cause anything.
(14)
Never is he the one engaging in action nor does the
master induce others to act, nor is he identified with
the results, as all is done by nature. (15)
Never
is the one of power responsible for the sins or pious
activities of anyone; it is the spiritual knowledge that
is covered by ignorance because of which the living
beings are bewildered.
(16)
But to the living entity whose nescience is destroyed by
knowledge, that knowledge discloses the Supreme Reality
like the rising sun. (17)
With one's intelligence to that, self to that, faith to
that and refuge in that, one will, being cleansed from
all misgivings by that knowledge, not return again.
(18)
In a gentle brahmin fully educated, in a cow, in an
elephant and surely also in an outcast, see those who are
wise the soul with equal vision. (19)
In this life certainly those have conquered birth and
death who in sameness have a fixed mind flawless in the
equanimity of the Supreme Spirit of which they are
situated in the Supreme. (20)
Never rejoicing on achieving the pleasant nor getting
agitated as well arriving at the unpleasant, intelligent
of his own and unbewildered, he who knows the spiritual
is situated in transcendence.
(21)
The one who is not attached to superficial pleasures
finds, by concentrating on the spiritual of being
connected in the soul, in the self the happiness which is
enjoyed as being unlimited. (22)
In that which certainly by the contact with the senses is
a source of misery, the intelligent never take delight,
as that certainly is subjected to having a beginning and
an end, o son of Kuntî. (23)
He who in this material body is able to tolerate, before
the body is forsaken, the lust and anger generated from
the urges, is a composed and happy human being.
(24)
Surely anyone who happy from within takes pleasure in the
self and dwells on the inner light is a yogi who
selfrealized attains to liberation in the Supreme.
(25)
Those achieve that spiritual liberation who live the
inner life and are spotless; they are beyond the duality
in selfrealization and are engaged in work for the
welfare of all living beings. (26)
The mind of
renounced persons who are liberated from lust and anger
is under full control and for them who learned from the
soul there is in the near future the guarantee of
spiritual enlightenment. (27-28)
Turned away from the unnecessary in the outer world not
looking for it and concentrated between the eyebrows in
suspending the in- and outgoing breath keeping the air
with it in his nose, are the senses, mind and
intelligence of the transcendentalist set to liberation
as one who has discarded all wishes, fear and anger is
surely always of that liberation. (29)
One who knows Me as the beneficiary of sacrifices,
penances and austerities, as the Supreme Lord of all the
worlds and as the benefactor of all living beings, thus
attains to peace.
Spoken
by Anand Aadhar Prabhu
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