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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
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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. 5·8, a key verseनैव किंचित्करोमीति युक्तो मन्येत तत्त्ववित् । पश्यञ्शृण्वन्स्पृशञ्जिघ्रन्नश्नन्गच्छन्स्वपञ्श्वसन् ॥ ८ ॥naiva kiṁcitkaromīti yukto manyeta tattvavit, paśyañśṛṇvanspṛśañjighrannaśnangacchansvapañśvasan.The man who knows the principles of things thinks, his mind in Yoga (with the inactive Impersonal), “I am…
  2. 5·9प्रलपन्विसृजन्गृह्णन्नुन्मिषन्निमिषन्नपि । इन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थेषु वर्तन्त इति धारयन् ॥ ९ ॥pralapanvisṛjangṛhṇannunmiṣannimiṣannapi, indriyāṇīndriyārtheṣu vartanta iti dhārayan.The man who knows the principles of things thinks, his mind in Yoga (with the inactive Impersonal), “I am…
  3. 5·10, a key verseब्रह्मण्याधाय कर्माणि संगं त्यक्त्वा करोति यः । लिप्यते न स पापेन पद्मपत्रमिवाम्भसा ॥ १० ॥brahmaṇyādhāya karmāṇi saṅgaṁ tyaktvā karoti yaḥ, lipyate na sa pāpena padmapatramivāmbhasā.He who, having abandoned attachment, acts reposing (or founding) his works on the Brahman, is not stained by…
  4. 5·11कायेन मनसा बुद्ध्या केवलैरिन्द्रियैरपि । योगिनः कर्म कुर्वन्ति सङ्गं त्यक्त्वात्मशुद्धये ॥ ११ ॥kāyena manasā buddhyā kevalairindriyairapi, yoginaḥ karma kurvanti saṅgaṁ tyaktvātmaśuddhaye.Therefore the Yogins do works with the body, mind, understanding, or even merely with the organs of action…
  5. 5·12युक्तः कर्मफलं त्यक्त्वा शान्तिमाप्नोति नैष्ठिकीम् । अयुक्तः कामकारेण फले सक्तो निबध्यते ॥ १२ ॥yuktaḥkarmaphalaṁ tyaktvā śāntimāpnoti naiṣṭhikīm, ayuktaḥ kāmakāreṇa phale sakto nibadhyate.By abandoning attachment to the fruits of works, the soul in union with Brahman attains to peace of rapt…
  6. 5·13सर्वकर्माणि मनसा संन्यस्यास्ते सुखं वशी । नवद्वारे पुरे देही नैव कुर्वन्न कारयन् ॥ १३ ॥sarvakarmāṇi manasā saṁnyasyāste sukhaṁ vaśī, navadvāre pure dehī naiva kurvanna kārayan.The embodied soul perfectly controlling its nature, having renounced all its actions by the mind (inwardly…
  7. 5·14न कर्तृत्वं न कर्माणि लोकस्य सृजति प्रभुः । न कर्मफलसंयोगं स्वभावस्तु प्रवर्तते ॥ १४ ॥na kartṛtvaṁ na karmāṇi lokasya sṛjati prabhuḥ, na karmaphalasaṁyogaṁ svabhāvastu pravartate.The Lord neither creates the works of the world nor the state of the doer nor to joining of the works to the…
  8. 5·15नादत्ते कस्यचित्पापं न चैव सुकृतं विभुः । अज्ञानेनावृतं ज्ञानं तेन मुह्यन्ति जन्तवः ॥ १५ ॥nādatte kasyacitpāpaṁ na caiva sukṛtaṁ vibhuḥ, ajñānenāvṛtaṁ jñānaṁ tena muhyanti jantavaḥ.The all-pervading Impersonal accepts neither the sin nor the virtue of any…
  9. 5·16ज्ञानेन तु तदज्ञानं येषां नाशितमात्मनः । तेषामादित्यवज्ज्ञानं प्रकाशयति तत्परम् ॥ १६ ॥jñānena tu tadajñānaṁ yeṣāṁ nāśitamātmanaḥ, teṣāmādityavajjñānaṁ prakāśayati tatparam.Verily, in whom ignorance is destroyed by self-knowledge, in them knowledge lights up like a sun the supreme…
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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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