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śraddhāvām̐llabhate jñānaṃ tatparaḥ saṃyatendriyaḥ । jñānaṃ labdhvā parāṃ śāntimacireṇādhigacchati ॥

“The faithful, intent, sense-restrained man wins knowledge; winning knowledge, he soon reaches the highest peace.”

ajñaścāśraddadhānaśca saṃśayātmā vinaśyati । nāyaṃ loko'sti na paro na sukhaṃ saṃśayātmanaḥ ॥

“The ignorant, the faithless, the doubting self perishes; neither this world nor the beyond nor joy exists for the doubting self.”

yogasaṃnyastakarmāṇaṃ jñānasaṃchinnasaṃśayam । ātmavantaṃ na karmāṇi nibadhnanti dhanaṃjaya ॥

“Deeds do not bind the self-possessed man, O Dhanañjaya, whose deeds are renounced through discipline and whose doubt is cut by knowledge.”

tasmādajñānasambhūtaṃ hṛtsthaṃ jñānāsinātmanaḥ । chittvainaṃ saṃśayaṃ yogamātiṣṭhottiṣṭha bhārata ॥

“So cutting with the sword of knowledge this doubt in the heart, born of ignorance, concerning the self — take up discipline, rise, O Bhārata.”

saṃnyāsaṃ karmaṇāṃ kṛṣṇa punaryogaṃ ca śaṃsasi । yacchreya etayorekaṃ tanme brūhi suniścitam ॥

“You praise renunciation of deeds, O Kṛṣṇa, and then discipline again — tell me for certain the one of these two that is better.”

saṃnyāsaḥ karmayogaśca niḥśreyasakarāvubhau । tayostu karmasaṃnyāsātkarmayogo viśiṣyate ॥

“Both renunciation and action-discipline lead to the highest good; but of the two, action-discipline excels over renouncing deeds.”

jñeyaḥ sa nityasaṃnyāsī yo na dveṣṭi na kāṅkṣati । nirdvandvo hi mahābāho sukhaṃ bandhātpramucyate ॥

“He should be known as the ever-renouncer who neither hates nor craves, O mighty-armed; for free from opposites, he is easily freed from bondage.”

sāṃkhyayogau pṛthagbālāḥ pravadanti na paṇḍitāḥ । ekamapyāsthitaḥ samyagubhayorvindate phalam ॥

“Children, not the learned, speak of theory and practice as separate; established rightly in either one, a man wins the fruit of both.”

yatsāṃkhyaiḥ prāpyate sthānaṃ tadyogairapi gamyate । ekaṃ sāṃkhyaṃ ca yogaṃ ca yaḥ paśyati saḥ paśyati ॥

“The state reached by theorists is reached by practitioners too; whoever sees theory and practice as one truly sees.”

saṃnyāsastu mahābāho duḥkhamāptumayogataḥ । yogayukto munirbrahma nacireṇādhigacchati ॥

“But renunciation, O mighty-armed, is hard to win without practice; the sage yoked by practice soon reaches Brahman.”

yogayukto viśuddhātmā vijitātmā jitendriyaḥ । sarvabhūtātmabhūtātmā kurvannapi na lipyate ॥

“Yoked by practice, pure in self, self-conquered, sense-conquered, whose self has become the self of all beings — though acting, he is not stained.”

naiva kiñcitkaromīti yukto manyeta tattvavit । paśyañśṛṇvanspṛśañjighrannaśnangacchansvapañśvasan ॥

“'I do nothing at all,' the knower of truth, yoked, should think — seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, walking, sleeping, breathing.”

pralapanvisṛjangṛhṇannunmiṣannimiṣannapi । indriyāṇīndriyārtheṣu vartanta iti dhārayan ॥

“Talking, releasing, grasping, opening and closing the eyes — holding that the senses merely move among sense-objects.”

brahmaṇyādhāya karmāṇi saṅgaṃ tyaktvā karoti yaḥ । lipyate na sa pāpena padmapatramivāmbhasā ॥

“Whoever acts casting off attachment, laying deeds on Brahman, is not stained by sin, as a lotus leaf is not by water.”

kāyena manasā buddhyā kevalairindriyairapi । yoginaḥ karma kurvanti saṅgaṃ tyaktvātmaśuddhaye ॥

“With body, mind, thought, and the mere senses too, seekers do deeds, abandoning attachment, for cleansing the self.”

yuktaḥ karmaphalaṃ tyaktvā śāntimāpnoti naiṣṭhikīm । ayuktaḥ kāmakāreṇa phale sakto nibadhyate ॥

“The yoked man, renouncing the fruit of deeds, attains abiding peace; the unyoked, led by desire, attached to fruit, is bound.”

sarvakarmāṇi manasā saṃnyasyāste sukhaṃ vaśī । navadvāre pure dehī naiva kurvanna kārayan ॥

“Renouncing all deeds by the mind, the controlled dweller in the nine-gated city rests happily, neither acting nor causing to act.”

na kartṛtvaṃ na karmāṇi lokasya sṛjati prabhuḥ । na karmaphalasaṃyogaṃ svabhāvastu pravartate ॥

“The lord creates neither doership nor deeds for the world, nor union with the fruits of deeds — nature alone moves.”

nādatte kasyacitpāpaṃ na caiva sukṛtaṃ vibhuḥ । ajñānenāvṛtaṃ jñānaṃ tena muhyanti jantavaḥ ॥

“The all-pervading takes on no one's sin nor merit; knowledge is covered by ignorance, and thereby beings are deluded.”

jñānena tu tadajñānaṃ yeṣāṃ nāśitamātmanaḥ । teṣāmādityavajjñānaṃ prakāśayati tatparam ॥

“But for those whose ignorance of the self is destroyed by knowledge, knowledge shines forth the supreme, like the sun.”

tadbuddhayastadātmānastanniṣṭhāstatparāyaṇāḥ । gacchantyapunarāvṛttiṃ jñānanirdhūtakalmaṣāḥ ॥

“With thought on That, selves on That, fixed on That, devoted to That, they reach the state of no return, their stains washed away by knowledge.”

vidyāvinayasaṃpanne brāhmaṇe gavi hastini । śuni caiva śvapāke ca paṇḍitāḥ samadarśinaḥ ॥

“On a Brahmin graced with learning and modesty, on a cow, an elephant, a dog, and an outcaste alike, the learned see the same.”

ihaiva tairjitaḥ sargo yeṣāṃ sāmye sthitaṃ manaḥ । nirdoṣaṃ hi samaṃ brahma tasmādbrahmaṇi te sthitāḥ ॥

“Here on earth they conquer rebirth whose minds rest in evenness; for Brahman is flawless and even — so they stand in Brahman.”

na prahṛṣyetpriyaṃ prāpya nodvijetprāpya cāpriyam । sthirabuddhirasaṃmūḍho brahmavidbrahmaṇi sthitaḥ ॥

“He should not rejoice on winning the pleasant nor tremble on winning the unpleasant — steady in thought, undeluded, the knower of Brahman stands in Brahman.”

bāhyasparśeṣvasaktātmā vindatyātmani yatsukham । sa brahmayogayuktātmā sukhamakṣayamaśnute ॥

“With self unattached to outer contacts, he finds the joy that lies in the self; his self yoked by union with Brahman, he enjoys imperishable joy.”

ye hi saṃsparśajā bhogā duḥkhayonaya eva te । ādyantavantaḥ kaunteya na teṣu ramate budhaḥ ॥

“For enjoyments born of contact are wombs of pain alone, with beginning and end, O son of Kuntī — the wise does not delight in them.”

śaknotīhaiva yaḥ soḍhuṃ prākśarīravimokṣaṇāt । kāmakrodhodbhavaṃ vegaṃ sa yuktaḥ sa sukhī naraḥ ॥

“Whoever can endure here on earth, before release from the body, the rush born of desire and anger — he is yoked, he is a happy man.”

yo'ntaḥsukho'ntarārāmastathāntarjyotireva yaḥ । sa yogī brahmanirvāṇaṃ brahmabhūto'dhigacchati ॥

“Whoever is inwardly happy, inwardly delighted, and likewise inwardly illumined — that seeker, become Brahman, reaches extinction in Brahman.”

labhante brahmanirvāṇamṛṣayaḥ kṣīṇakalmaṣāḥ । chinnadvaidhā yatātmānaḥ sarvabhūtahite ratāḥ ॥

“The seers reach extinction in Brahman — their stains worn away, their doubts cut, self-restrained, delighting in the welfare of all beings.”

kāmakrodhaviyuktānāṃ yatīnāṃ yatacetasām । abhito brahmanirvāṇaṃ vartate viditātmanām ॥

“For strivers restrained in mind, freed from desire and anger, who know the self — extinction in Brahman lies all around.”

sparśānkṛtvā bahirbāhyāṃścakṣuścaivāntare bhruvoḥ । prāṇāpānau samau kṛtvā nāsābhyantaracāriṇau ॥

“Shutting out outer contacts, fixing the gaze between the brows, making the in-breath and out-breath, coursing through the nostrils, even.”

yatendriyamanobuddhirmunirmokṣaparāyaṇaḥ । vigatecchābhayakrodho yaḥ sadā mukta eva saḥ ॥

“With senses, mind and thought restrained, the sage intent on freedom, rid of longing, fear and anger — whoever is so is ever freed.”

bhoktāraṃ yajñatapasāṃ sarvalokamaheśvaram । suhṛdaṃ sarvabhūtānāṃ jñātvā māṃ śāntimṛcchati ॥

“Knowing Me as the enjoyer of sacrifices and austerities, the great lord of all worlds, the friend of all beings, he reaches peace.”

anāśritaḥ karmaphalaṃ kāryaṃ karma karoti yaḥ । sa saṃnyāsī ca yogī ca na niragnirna cākriyaḥ ॥

“Whoever does the deed that must be done, not sheltering in its fruit — he is the renouncer and the seeker, not the fireless nor the deedless man.”

yaṃ saṃnyāsamiti prāhuryogaṃ taṃ viddhi pāṇḍava । na hyasaṃnyastasaṃkalpo yogī bhavati kaścana ॥

“What they call renunciation, know that as discipline, O Pāṇḍava; for none becomes a seeker without renouncing resolve.”

ārurukṣormuneryogaṃ karma kāraṇamucyate । yogārūḍhasya tasyaiva śamaḥ kāraṇamucyate ॥

“For the sage seeking to climb to discipline, action is called the means; for the same man, climbed to discipline, stillness is called the means.”

yadā hi nendriyārtheṣu na karmasvanuṣajjate । sarvasaṃkalpasaṃnyāsī yogārūḍhastadocyate ॥

“For when one clings neither to sense-objects nor to deeds, renouncing all resolves — then he is called climbed to discipline.”

uddharedātmanātmānaṃ nātmānamavasādayet । ātmaiva hyātmano bandhurātmaiva ripurātmanaḥ ॥

“Let a man lift the self by the self, not let the self sink; for the self alone is the self's friend, and the self alone is the self's foe.”

bandhurātmātmanastasya yenātmaivātmanā jitaḥ । anātmanastu śatrutve vartetātmaiva śatruvat ॥

“The self is the friend of the self conquered by the self itself; but for the unconquered self, the self stands as a foe, like an enemy.”

jitātmanaḥ praśāntasya paramātmā samāhitaḥ । śītoṣṇasukhaduḥkheṣu tathā mānāpamānayoḥ ॥

“For the self-conquered and calm, the highest self is composed — amid cold and heat, pleasure and pain, and likewise honour and dishonour.”

jñānavijñānatṛptātmā kūṭastho vijitendriyaḥ । yukta ityucyate yogī samaloṣṭāśmakāñcanaḥ ॥

“With self content in learning and discernment, unchanging, sense-conquered — the seeker is called yoked, to whom clod, stone and gold are the same.”

suhṛnmitrāryudāsīnamadhyasthadveṣyabandhuṣu । sādhuṣvapi ca pāpeṣu samabuddhirviśiṣyate ॥

“He excels whose thought is even toward well-wisher, friend, foe, bystander, middling, hateful, kin — and even toward the good and the sinful.”

yogī yuñjīta satatamātmānaṃ rahasi sthitaḥ । ekākī yatacittātmā nirāśīraparigrahaḥ ॥

“The seeker should ever yoke the self, staying in a secret place, alone, with mind and self restrained, hopeless, possessionless.”

śucau deśe pratiṣṭhāpya sthiramāsanamātmanaḥ । nātyucchritaṃ nātinīcaṃ cailājinakuśottaram ॥

“Setting firm his own steady seat in a clean place, neither too high nor too low, with cloth, skin and kuśa grass beneath.”

tatraikāgraṃ manaḥ kṛtvā yatacittendriyakriyaḥ । upaviśyāsane yuñjyādyogamātmaviśuddhaye ॥

“There, making the mind one-pointed, restraining the working of thought and senses, seated on the seat, he should practise discipline for cleansing the self.”

samaṃ kāyaśirogrīvaṃ dhārayannacalaṃ sthiraḥ । samprekṣya nāsikāgraṃ svaṃ diśaścānavalokayan ॥

“Holding body, head and neck even, unmoving, steady, gazing at his own nose-tip, not looking round the quarters.”

praśāntātmā vigatabhīrbrahmacārivrate sthitaḥ । manaḥ saṃyamya maccitto yukta āsīta matparaḥ ॥

“Calm in self, fearless, standing in the vow of celibate studentship, restraining the mind, thinking on Me, yoked, he should sit intent on Me.”

yuñjannevaṃ sadātmānaṃ yogī niyatamānasaḥ । śāntiṃ nirvāṇaparamāṃ matsaṃsthāmadhigacchati ॥

“Thus ever yoking the self, the seeker of restrained mind reaches the peace whose end is extinction, which rests on Me.”

nātyaśnatastu yogo'sti na caikāntamanaśnataḥ । na cāti svapnaśīlasya jāgrato naiva cārjuna ॥

“Discipline is not for the over-eater, nor for the utter faster, O Arjuna; nor for the oversleeper, nor for the ever-waking.”

yuktāhāravihārasya yuktaceṣṭasya karmasu । yuktasvapnāvabodhasya yogo bhavati duḥkhahā ॥

“For one measured in food and pastime, measured in efforts at deeds, measured in sleep and waking — his discipline ends pain.”