Verses Of Gita Chapter - 5🔗

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arjuna uvāca: Arjuna said; saṁnyāsaṁ: renunciation; karmaṇāṁ: of all actions; kṛṣṇa: O Krishna; punaḥ: again; yogaṁ: devotion; ca: also; śaṁsasi: praising; yat: which; śreyaḥ: beneficial; etayoḥ: of the two; ekaṁ: one; tat: that; me: to me; brūhi: please tell; suniścitam: definitely

5.1 Arjuna said: Oh Krishna, you asked me to renounce work first and then you ask me to work with devotion. Will you now please tell me, one way or the other, which of the two will work for me?

śrī bhagavān uvāca: Lord Krishna said; saṁnyāsaḥ: renunciation; karmayogaḥ: work in devotion; ca: also; niḥśreyasakarāv: for liberation; ubhau: both; tayoḥ: of the two; tu: but; karmasaṁnyāsāt: between work and renunciation; karmayogaḥ: work in devotion; viśiṣyate: better

5.2 Krishna says: The renunciation of work and work in devotion are both good for liberation. But, of the two, work in devotional service is better than renunciation of work.

jñeyaḥ: should be known; saḥ: he; nitya: always; saṁnyāsī: renouncer; yaḥ: who; na: never; dveṣṭi: hates; na: never; kāṅkṣati: desires; nirdvandvaḥ: free from all dualities; hi: certainly; mahābāho: mighty-armed one; sukham: easily; bandhāt: from bondage; pramucyate: completely liberated

5.3 He who neither hates nor desires the fruits of his activities has renounced. Such a person, free from all dualities, easily overcomes material bondage and is completely liberated, Oh Arjuna!

sāṁkhyayogau: samkhya system and; yoga: work; pṛthak: different; bālāḥ: less intelligent; pravadanti: say; na: not; paṇḍitāḥ: learned; ekam: one; api: even; āsthitaḥ: situated; samyak: complete; ubhayoḥ: of both; vindate: enjoys; phalam: result

5.4 Only the ignorant speaks of the path of action to be different from the path of renunciation. Those who are actually learned say that both action and renunciation lead to the same truth.

yat: what; sāmkhyaiḥ: by Sankhya system; prāpyate: get; sthānaṁ: position; tat: that; yogaiḥ: by work in devotion; api: also; gamyate: can reach; ekam: one; sāṁkhyaṁ: sankhya system; ca: and; yogaṁ: work in devotion; ca: and; yaḥ: who; paśyati: sees; saḥ: he; paśyati: sees

5.5 He who knows, knows that the state reached by renunciation and action are one and the same. State reached by renunciation can also be achieved by action, know them to be at same level and see them as they are.

saṁnyāsaḥ: renunciation; tu: but; mahābāho: mighty-armed one; duḥkham: misery; āptuṁ: afflicts with; ayogataḥ: without devotion; yogayuktaḥ: engaged in devotion; muniḥ: wise; brahma: supreme; nacireṇa: without delay; adhigacchati: attains

5.6 Renunciation without devotional service afflicts one with misery, Oh mighty-armed one. The wise person engaged in devotional service attains the Supreme without delay.

yogayuktaḥ: engaged in work with devotion; viśuddhātmā : a man of purified mind; vijita: self-controlled; atma: soul; jitendriyaḥ: conquered the senses; sarvabhūtātma: to all living beings; bhūtātma: compassionate; kurvan api: though engaged in work, na: never; lipyate: entangled

5.7 The person engaged in devoted service, beyond concepts pure and impure, self-controlled and who has conquered the senses is compassionate and loves everyone. Although engaged in work, he is never entangled.

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na: never; eva: certainly; kiṁcit: anything; karomi: I do; iti: thus; yuktaḥ: engaged; manyeta: thinks; tattvavit: one who knows the truth; paśyan: seeing; śṛṇvan: hearing; spṛśan: touching; jighran: smelling; aśnan: eating; gacchan: going; svapan: dreaming; śvasan: breathing

pralapan: talking; visṛjan: giving up; gṛhṇan: accepting; unmiṣan: opening; nimiṣan: closing; api: though; indriyāṇi: the senses; indriyārtheṣu: in gratifying senses; vartanta: are engaged; iti: thus; dhārayan: considering

5.8, 9 One who knows the truth, though engaged in seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, going, dreaming, and breathing knows that he never does anything. While talking, letting go, receiving, opening, closing, he considers that the senses are engaged in gratification.

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brahmaṇi: Eternal Consciousness; ādhāya: surrendering to; karmāṇi: actions; saṅgaṁ: attachment; tyaktvā: giving up; karoti: does; yaḥ: who; lipyate: affected; na: never; saḥ: he; pāpena: by sin; padma: lotus; patraṁ: leaf; iva: like; ambhasā: water

5.10 He, who acts without attachment, giving up and surrendering to the eternal consciousness, He is never affected by sin, in the same way that the lotus leaf is not affected by water.

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kāyena: by the body; manasā: by the mind; buddhyā: by the intellect; kevalaiḥ: only; indriyaiḥ: by the senses; api also: yoginaḥ: yogis; karma: action; kurvanti: perform; saṅgaṁ: attachment; tyaktvā; having abandoned; ātmaśuddhaye: for the purification of the self

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

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yuktaḥ: one steadfast in devotion; karma: action; phalaṁ: fruit: tyaktvā: giving up; śāntiṁ: peace; āpnoti: achieves: naiṣṭhikīm: established; ayuktaḥ: one not steadfast in devotion; kāmakāreṇa: for enjoying the fruits of the action; phale: fruit; saktaḥ: attached; nibadhyate: becomes entangled

5.12 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.

sarva: all; karmāṇi: activities; manasā: by the mind; saṁnyasya: giving up; āste: remains; sukhaṁ: in happiness; vaśī : who is controlled; navadvāre: of nine gates; pure: in the city; dehī : body; na: never; eva: surely; kurvan: doing; na: never: kārayan: causing to be done

5.13 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.

na: never; kartṛtvaṁ: of doing; na: not; karmāṇi: activities; lokasya: of the people; sṛjati: creates; prabhuḥ: master; na: not; karma: activities; phala: fruit; saṁyogaṁ: connection; svabhāvaḥ: nature; tu: but; pravartate: act

5.14 The master does not create activities nor makes people do nor connects with the outcome of the actions. All this is enacted by the material nature.

na: never; ādatte: accepts; kasyacit: anyone’s; pāpaṁ: sins; na: not; ca: and; eva: surely; sukṛtaṁ: good deeds; vibhuḥ: lord; ajñānena: by ignorance; āvṛtaṁ: covered; jñānaṁ: knowledge; tena: by that; muhyanti: are confused; jantavaḥ: living beings

5.15 The Lord, surely, neither accepts anyone’s sins nor good deeds. Living beings are confused by the ignorance that covers the knowledge.

jñānena: by knowledge; tu: but; tad: that; ajñānaṁ: ignorance; yeṣāṁ: whose; nāśitaṁ: destroyed; ātmanaḥ: of the self; teṣām: their; ādityavat: like the rising sun; jñānaṁ: knowledge; prakāśayati: throws light on; tat param: that supreme consciousness

5.16 Whose ignorance is destroyed by the knowledge, their knowledge, like the rising sun, throws light on the supreme consciousness.

tad buddhyaḥ: one whose intelligence is in the supreme; tad ātmānaḥ: whose mind is in the supreme; tanniṣṭhāḥ: whose faith is in the supreme; tat parāyaṇāḥ: who has surrendered to the supreme; gacchanti: go; apunarāvṛttiṁ: liberation; jñāna: knowledge; nirdhūta: cleanses; kalmaṣāḥ: misunderstandings

5.17 One whose intelligence, mind, faith are in the Supreme and one who has surrendered to the Supreme, his misunderstandings are cleansed through knowledge and he goes towards liberation.

vidyā: knowledge; vinaya: compassion; saṁpanne: full with; brāhmaṇe: in the brahmana; gavi: in the cow; hastini: in the elephant; śuni: in the dog; ca: and; eva: surely; śvapāke: in the dog-eater; ca: and; paṇḍitāḥ: learned; sama: equal; darśinaḥ: see

5.18 One who is full of knowledge and compassion sees equally the learned brāhmaṇa, the cow, the elephant, the dog and the dog-eater.

iha: in this life; eva: surely; taiḥ: by them; jitaḥ: conquered; sargaḥ: birth and death; yeṣām: of whose; sāmye: in equanimity; sthitaṁ: situated; manaḥ: mind; nir doṣaṁ: flawless; hi: surely; samaṁ: in equanimity; brahma: supreme; tasmāt: therefore; brahmaṇi: in the supreme; te: they; sthitāḥ: situated

5.19 In this life, surely, those whose minds are situated in equanimity have conquered birth and death. They are flawless like the Supreme and therefore, are situated in the Supreme.'

na: never; prahṛṣyet: rejoice; priyaṁ: like; prāpya: achieving; no: not; udvijet: agitated; prāpya: achieving; ca: and; apriyaṁ: the unpleasant; sthirabuddhiḥ: steady intelligence; asaṁmūḍhaḥ: undeluded; brahmavid: one who knows the Supreme; brahmaṇi: in the Supreme; sthitaḥ: situated

5.20 One who does not rejoice at achieving something he likes nor gets agitated on getting something he does not like, who is of steady intelligence, who is not deluded, one who knows the Supreme, is situated in the Supreme.

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bāhya: outer; sparśeṣu: sense pleasures; asaktātmā : not attached; vindati: enjoys; ātmani: in the Self; yat: that; sukham: happiness; saḥ: he; brahma yoga: engaged in the Supreme; yuktātmā: self-connected; sukham: happiness; akṣayaṁ: unlimited; aśnute: enjoys

5.21 One who is not attached to the outer world sense pleasures, who enjoys in the Self, in that happiness, he is self-connected and engaged in the Supreme and enjoys unlimited happiness.

ye: those; hi: surely; saṁsparśajāḥ: by contact with the senses; bhogāḥ: enjoyments; duḥkha: misery; yonayaḥ: sources of; eva: surely; te: they are; ādya: beginning; anta: end; vantaḥ: subject to; kaunteya: son of Kunti; na: not; teṣu: in those; ramate: enjoys; budhaḥ: intelligent person

5.22 The intelligent person surely does not enjoy the sense pleasures, enjoyments which are sources of misery and which are subject to beginning and end.

śaknoti: able to do; iha eva: in this body; yaḥ: one who; soḍhuṁ: tolerate; prāk: before; śarīra: body; vimokṣaṇāt: give up; kāma: desire; krodha: anger; udbhavaṁ: generated from; vegaṁ: urge; sa: he; yuktaḥ: well-situated; saḥ: he; sukhī: happy; naraḥ: man

5.23 Before leaving this present body, if one is able to tolerate the urges of material senses and check the force of desire and anger, he is well situated and he is happy in this world.

yaḥ: who; antaḥ sukhaḥ: happy from within; antarārāmaḥ: active within; tathā: as well as; antarjyotiḥ: illumined within; eva: surely; yaḥ: who; saḥ: he; yogī: mystic; brahma nirvāṇaṁ: liberated in the Supreme; brahma bhūtaḥ: self realized; adhigacchati: attains

5.24 One who is happy from within, active within as well as illumined within, surely, is a yogi (united in mind body and spirit) and he is liberated in the Supreme, is self-realized and attains the Supreme.

labhante: achieve; brahma nirvāṇaṁ: liberation in the Supreme; ṛṣayaḥ: who are active within; kṣīṇakalmaṣāḥ: devoid of sins; chinna: torn off; dvaidhāḥ: duality; yatātmānaḥ: engaged in self-realization; sarva: all; bhūta: living beings; hite: for the welfare; ratāḥ: engaged

5.25 The holy men whose sins have been destroyed are working for the welfare of other beings, those who are self-restrained and have cleared all their doubts and dualities attain the eternal happiness of God, Nityānanda of Divine.

kāma: desire; krodha: anger; viyuktānāṁ; one freed from; yatīnāṁ; of the ascetics; yata cetasāṁ: with the thoughts controlled; abhitaḥ: on all sides; brahma nirvāṇaṁ: absolute freedom; vartate: exists; viditātmanāṁ: of those who have realized the Self

5.26 They who are free from lust and anger, who have subdued the mind and senses, and who have known the Self, easily attain liberation.

sparśān: external sense objects; kṛtvā : keeping; bahiḥ: external; bāhyān: external; cakṣuḥ: eyes; ca: and; eva: surely; antare: within; bhruvoḥ: eyebrows; prāṇāpānau: inward and outward breath; samau: suspending; kṛtvā : doing; nāsābhyantara: within the nostrils; cārinau: moving;

yata: controlled; indriya: senses; mano: mind; buddhiḥ: intelligence; muniḥ the sage; mokṣa: liberation; parāyaṇaḥ: aiming; vigata: free from; icchā: desires; bhaya: fear; krodah: anger; yaḥ: one who; sadā: always; muktaḥ: liberated; eva: certainly; saḥ: he is

5.27,28 Shutting out all external sense objects, keeping the eyes and vision concentrated between the two eyebrows, suspending the inward and outward breaths within the nostrils and thus controlling the mind, senses and intelligence, the transcendental who is aiming at liberation, becomes free from desire, fear and the by-product of desire and fear, anger all three. One who is always in this state is certainly liberated.

bhoktāraṁ: one who enjoys; yajña: sacrifice; tapasāṁ: penance; sarva: all; loka: worlds; maheśvārāṁ: lord; suhṛdaṁ: benefactor; sarva: all; bhūtānāṁ: living beings; jñātvā: knowing; māṁ: me; śāntiṁ: peace; ṛcchati: achieves

5.29 One who knowing Me as the purpose of sacrifice and penance, as the lord of all the worlds and the benefactor of all the living beings, achieves peace.

In the Upaniṣad of the Bhagavad gita, the knowledge of Brahman, the Supreme, the science of Yoga and the dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjuna, this is the fifth discourse designated: