Bhagavad Gita Chapter 5 - Lesson 3 of 7

POWERFUL COGNITION

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The lotus flower grows in a dirty pond yet the flower is so beautifully above the water. Similarly, when you are neck-deep in the activities of the world and yet unaffected by what goes on, you have reached the goal of renunciation.

कायेन मनसा बुद्ध्या केवलैरिन्द्रियैरपि ।
योगिनः कर्म कुर्वन्ति सङ्गं त्यक्त्वात्मशुद्धये
॥ ५-११ ॥

kāyena manasā buddhyā kevalair
indriyairapi yoginaḥ karma kurvanti
saṅgaṁ tyaktvātmaśuddhaye

The yogis, giving up attachment, act
with the body, mind, intelligence, even
with the senses for the purpose self-
purification.

POWERFUL COGNITION

Realized souls are so centered in themselves that the outer world incidents happening do not affect their core in any way.

5.12

युक्तः कर्मफलं त्यक्त्वा शान्तिमाप्नोति नैष्ठिकीम् ।
अयुक्तः कामकारेण फले सक्तो निबध्यते
॥ ५-१२॥

yuktaḥ karmaphalaṁ tyaktvā
śāntimāpnoti naiṣṭhikīm
ayuktaḥ kāma-kāreṇa phale
sakto nibadhyate

One who is engaged in devotion, gives up attachment to outcome of one's actions and is centered, is at peace. One who is not engaged in devotion, attached to the outcome of one's action becomes entangled.

POWERFUL COGNITION

Surrender to the flow of life with the true understanding that we are being taken care of.

5.13

सर्वकर्माणि मनसा संन्यस्यास्ते सुखं वशी ।
नवद्वारे पुरे देही नैव कुर्वन्न कारयन्
॥५-१३॥

sarvakarmāṇi manasā sannyasyāste
sukhaṁ vaśī navadvāre pure dehī naiva
kurvanna kārayan

One who is controlled, giving up all the activities of the mind, surely remains in happiness in the city of nine gates (body), neither doing anything nor causing anything to be done.

POWERFUL COGNITION

Be so completely involved in something that we become the very action itself.