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Chapter V29 verses

अथ पंचमोऽध्यायः

संन्यासयोगः

The Yoga of the Renunciation of Action

Saṁnyāsa-yoga

Renounce not the work but the one who claims it, and the Nirvana you sought beyond the world will be found all around you in the world. — The Delight of Krishna

The soul enters in
divyaṃ janma karma — the divine birth and the divine works, known in their truth
and is led towards
brahmanirvāṇa — the ego extinguished in the Brahman, and the Brahman found all about the soul
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29 verses

Summary of chapter 5

Renunciation and Yoga of Works - The Gita. after speaking of the perfect equality of the Brahman-knower who has risen into the Brahman-consciousness. develops in the last nine verses of this chapter its idea of Brahmayoga and of Nirvana in the Brahman.

Chapter 5 illustration, titled संन्यासयोगः
Illustration · Sushanto Nath, Sri Aurobindo Society

Chapter outline

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  1. 5·1–7Oneness of Karma Yoga and Renunciation of Karma.
  2. 5·8–16Spiritual awareness and freedom in active life.
  3. 5·17–29Equality of spiritual vision, oneness with the Divine and Yogic attitudes in practical life.
  4. 5·1–29Show all 29 verses

The verses

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Śrī Bhagavān uvācaश्रीभगवानुवाच

  1. 5·17तद्बुद्धयस्तदात्मानस्तन्निष्ठास्तत्परायणाः । गच्छन्त्यपुनरावृत्तिं ज्ञाननिर्धूतकल्मषाः ॥ १७ ॥tadbuddhayastadātmānastanniṣṭhāstatparāyaṇāḥ, gacchantyapunarāvṛttiṁ jñānanirdhūtakalmaṣāḥ.Turning their discerning mind to That, directing their whole conscious being to That, making That their whole…
  2. 5·18, a key verseविद्याविनयसंपन्ने ब्राह्मणे गवि हस्तिनि । शुनि चैव श्वपाके च पण्डिताः समदर्शिनः ॥ १८ ॥vidyāvinayasaṁpanne brāhmaṇe gavi hastini, śuni caiva śvapāke ca paṇḍitāḥ samadarśinaḥ.Sages see with an equal eye the learned and cultured Brahmin, the cow, the elephant, the dog, the outcaste.
  3. 5·19इहैव तैर्जितः सर्गो येषां साम्ये स्थितं मनः । निर्दोषं हि समं ब्रह्म तस्माद् ब्रह्मणि ते स्थिताः ॥ १९ ॥ihaiva tairjitaḥ sargo yeṣāṁ sāmye sthitaṁ manaḥ, nirdoṣaṁ hi samaṁ brahma tasmād brahmaṇi te sthitāḥ.Even here on earth they conquered the creation whose mind is established in equality…
  4. 5·20न प्रहृष्येत्प्रियं प्राप्य नोद्विजेत्प्राप्य चाप्रियम् । स्थिरबुद्धिरसंमूढो ब्रह्मविद् ब्रह्मणि स्थितः ॥ २० ॥na prahṛṣyetpriyaṁ prāpya nodvijetprāpya cāpriyam, sthirabuddhirasaṁmūḍho brahmavid brahmaṇi sthitaḥ.With intelligence stable, unbewildered, the knower of the Brahman, living in the Brahman, neither rejoices on…
  5. 5·21बाह्यस्पर्शेष्वसक्तात्मा विन्दत्यात्मनि यत्सुखम् । स ब्रह्मयोगयुक्तात्मा सुखमक्षयमश्नुते ॥ २१ ॥bāhyasparśeṣvasaktātmā vindatyātmani yatsukham, sa brahmayogayuktātmā sukhamakṣayamaśnute.When the soul is no longer attached to the touches of outward things, then one finds the happiness that exists…
  6. 5·22ये हि संस्पर्शजा भोगा दुःखयोनय एव ते । आद्यन्तवन्तः कौन्तेय न तेषु रमते बुधः ॥ २२ ॥ye hi saṁsparśajā bhogā duḥkhayonaya eva te, ādyantavantaḥ kaunteya na teṣu ramate budhaḥ.The enjoyments born of the touches of things are causes of sorrow, they have a beginning and an end…
  7. 5·23शक्नोतीहैव यः सोढुं प्राक्शरीरविमोक्षणात् । कामक्रोधोद्भवं वेगं स युक्तः स सुखी नरः ॥ २३ ॥śaknotīhaiva yaḥ soḍhuṁ prāksharīravimokṣaṇāt, kāmakrodhodbhavaṁ vegaṁ sa yuktaḥ sa sukhī naraḥ.He who bear here in the body the velocity of wrath and desire, is the Yogin, the happy man.
  8. 5·24, a key verseयोऽन्तःसुखोऽन्तरारामस्तथान्तर्ज्योतिरेव यः । स योगी ब्रह्मनिर्वाणं ब्रह्मभूतोऽधिगच्छति ॥ २४ ॥yo’ntaḥsukho’ntarārāmastathāntarjyotireva yaḥ, sa yogī brahmanirvāṇaṁ brahmabhūto’dhigacchati.He who has the inner happiness and inner ease and repose and the inner light, that Yogin becomes the Brahman…
  9. 5·25लभन्ते ब्रह्मनिर्वाणमृषयः क्षीणकल्मषाः । छिन्नद्वैधा यतात्मानः सर्वभूतहिते रताः ॥ २५ ॥labhante brahmanirvāṇamṛṣayaḥ kṣīṇakalmaṣāḥ, chinnadvaidhā yatātmānaḥ sarvabhūtahite ratāḥ.Sages win Nirvana in the Brahman, they in whom the stains of sin are effaced and the knot of doubt is cut…
  10. 5·26कामक्रोधवियुक्तानां यतीनां यतचेतसाम् । अभितो ब्रह्मनिर्वाणं वर्तते विदितात्मनाम् ॥ २६ ॥kāmakrodhaviyuktānāṁ yatīnāṁ yatacetasām, abhito brahmanirvāṇaṁ vartate viditātmanām.Yatis (those who practice self-mastery by Yoga and austerity) who are delivered from desire and wrath and have…
  11. 5·27स्पर्शान्कृत्वा बहिर्बाह्यांश्चक्षुश्चैवान्तरे भ्रुवोः । प्राणापानौ समौ कृत्वा नासाभ्यन्तरचारिणौ ॥ २७ ॥sparśānkṛtvā bahirbāhyāṁścakṣuścaivāntare bhruvoḥ, prāṇāpānau samau kṛtvā nāsābhyantaracāriṇau.Having put outside of himself all outward touches and concentrated the vision between the eyebrows and made…
  12. 5·28यतेन्द्रियमनोबुद्धिर्मुनिर्मोक्षपरायणः । विगतेच्छाभयक्रोधो यः सदा मुक्त एव सः ॥ २८ ॥yatendriyamanobuddhirmunirmokṣaparāyaṇaḥ, vigatecchābhayakrodho yaḥ sadā mukta eva saḥ.Having controlled the senses, the mind and the understanding, the sage devoted to liberation, from whom desire…
  13. 5·29, a key verseभोक्तारं यज्ञतपसां सर्वलोकमहेश्वरम् । सुहृदं सर्वभूतानां ज्ञात्वा मां शान्तिमृच्छति ॥ २९ ॥bhoktāraṁ yajñatapasāṁ sarvalokamaheśvaram, suhṛdaṁ sarvabhūtānāṁ jñātvā māṁ śāntimṛcchati.When a man has known Me as the Enjoyer of sacrifice and tapasya (of all askesis and energisms), the mighty…
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End of the chapter

ॐ तत्सदिति श्रीमद्भगवद्गीतासूपनिषत्सुब्रह्मविद्यायां योगशास्त्रे श्रीकृष्णार्जुनसंवादेसंन्यासयोगो नाम पञ्चमोऽध्यायः ॥ ५॥

om tatsaditi śrīmadbhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsubrahmavidyāyāṁ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṁvādesaṁnyāsayogo nāma pañcamo’dhyāyaḥ

Thus, in the Upanishad sung by the Lord, the science of Brahman, the scripture of Yoga, the dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjuna, ends the fifth chapter entitled “The Yoga of Renunciation of Action”

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