The Yoga of the Works

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Śrī Bhagavān uvācaश्रीभगवानुवाच

1. 3·27, a key verseप्रकृतेः क्रियमाणानि गुणैः कर्माणि सर्वशः । अहंकारविमूढात्मा कर्ताहमिति मन्यते ॥ २७ ॥prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ, ahaṅkāravimūḍhātmā kartāhamiti manyate.While the actions are being entirely done by the modes of Nature, he whose self is bewildered by egoism thinks…
2. 3·28तत्त्ववित्तु महाबाहो गुणकर्मविभागयोः । गुणा गुणेषु वर्तन्त इति मत्वा न सज्जते ॥ २८ ॥tattvavittu mahābāho guṇakarmavibhāgayoḥ, guṇā guṇeṣu vartanta iti matvā na sajjate.But one, O mighty-armed, who knows the true principles of the divisions of the modes and of works, realises…
3. 3·29प्रकृतेर्गुणसंमूढाः सज्जन्ते गुणकर्मसु । तानकृत्स्नविदो मन्दान्कृत्स्नविन्न विचालयेत् ॥ २९ ॥prakṛterguṇasaṁmūḍhāḥ sajjante guṇakarmasu, tānakṛtsnavido mandānkṛtsnavinna vicālayet.Those who are bewildered by the modes and attached to the actions of the modes, not knowers of the whole, let…
4. 3·30, a key verseमयि सर्वाणि कर्माणि संन्यस्याध्यात्मचेतसा । निराशीर्निर्ममो भूत्वा युध्यस्व विगतज्वरः ॥ ३० ॥mayi sarvāṇi karmāṇi saṁnyasyādhyātmacetasā, nirāśīrnirmamo bhūtvā yudhyasva vigatajvaraḥ.Giving up thy works to Me, with thy consciousness founded in the Self, free from desire and egoism, fight…
5. 3·31ये मे मतमिदं नित्यमनुतिष्ठन्ति मानवाः । श्रद्धावन्तोऽनसूयन्तो मुच्यन्ते तेऽपि कर्मभिः ॥ ३१ ॥ye me matamidaṁ nityamanutiṣṭhanti mānavāḥ, śraddhāvanto’nasūyanto mucyante te’pi karmabhiḥ.Who, having faith and not trusting to the critical intelligence, constantly follow this teaching of mine, they…
6. 3·32ये त्वेतदभ्यसूयन्तो नानुतिष्ठन्ति मे मतम् । सर्वज्ञानविमूढांस्तान्विद्धि नष्टानचेतसः ॥ ३२ ॥ye tvetadabhyasūyanto nānutiṣṭhanti me matam, sarvajñānavimūḍhāṁstānviddhi naṣṭānacetasaḥ.But those who find fault with my teaching and act not thereon, know them to be of unripe mind, bewildered in…
7. 3·33सदृशं चेष्टते स्वस्याः प्रकृतेर्ज्ञानवानपि । प्रकृतिं यान्ति भूतानि निग्रहः किं करिष्यति ॥ ३३ ॥sadṛśaṁ ceṣṭate svasyāḥ prakṛterjñānavānapi, prakṛtiṁ yānti bhūtāni nigrahaḥ kiṁ kariṣyati.All existences follow their nature and what shall coercing it avail?
8. 3·34इन्द्रियस्येन्द्रियस्यार्थे रागद्वेषौ व्यवस्थितौ । तयोर्न वशमागच्छेत्तौ ह्यस्य परिपन्थिनौ ॥ ३४ ॥indriyasyendriyasyārthe rāgadveṣau vyavasthitau, tayorna vaśamāgacchettau hyasya paripanthinau.In the object of this or that sense liking and disliking are set in ambush…
9. 3·35श्रेयान्स्वधर्मो विगुणः परधर्मात्स्वनुष्ठितात् । स्वधर्मे निधनं श्रेयः परधर्मो भयावहः ॥ ३५ ॥śreyānsvadharmo viguṇaḥ paradharmātsvanuṣṭhitāt, svadharme nidhanaṁ śreyaḥ paradharmo bhayāvahaḥ.Better is one’s own law of works, svadharma, though in itself faulty, than an alien law well wrought out…