Bg. 5.
1 - Arjuna said: O Kåñëa, first of all You ask me to renounce
work, and then again You recommend work with devotion. Now
will You kindly tell me definitely which of the two is more
beneficial?
Bg. 5.2 - The Personality of Godhead replied: 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.
Bg. 5.3 - One who neither hates nor desires the fruits of his
activities is known to be always renounced. Such a person, free
from all dualities, easily overcomes material bondage and is
completely liberated, O mighty-armed Arjuna.
Bg. 5.4 - Only the ignorant speak of devotional service [karma-
yoga] as being different from the analytical study of the material
world [Säìkhya]. Those who are actually learned say that he who
applies himself well to one of these paths achieves the results of
both.
Bg. 5.5 - One who knows that the position reached by means of
analytical study can also be attained by devotional service, and
who therefore sees analytical study and devotional service to be
on the same level, sees things as they are.
Bg. 5.6 - Merely renouncing all activities yet not engaging in the
devotional service of the Lord cannot make one happy. But a
thoughtful person engaged in devotional service can achieve the
Supreme without delay.
Bg. 5.7 - One who works in devotion, who is a pure soul, and who
controls his mind and senses is dear to everyone, and everyone is
dear to him. Though always working, such a man is never
entangled.
Bg. 5.8-9 - A person in the divine consciousness, although
engaged in seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, moving
about, sleeping and breathing, always knows within himself that
he actually does nothing at all. Because while speaking,
evacuating, receiving, or opening or closing his eyes, he always
knows that only the material senses are engaged with their
objects and that he is aloof from them.
Bg. 5.10 - One who performs his duty without attachment,
surrendering the results unto the Supreme Lord, is unaffected by
sinful action, as the lotus leaf is untouched by water.
Bg. 5.11 - The yogés, abandoning attachment, act with body,
mind, intelligence and even with the senses, only for the purpose
of purification.
Bg. 5.12 - The steadily devoted soul attains unadulterated peace
because he offers the result of all activities to Me; whereas a
person who is not in union with the Divine, who is greedy for the
fruits of his labor, becomes entangled.
Bg. 5.13 - When the embodied living being controls his nature and
mentally renounces all actions, he resides happily in the city of
nine gates [the material body], neither working nor causing work
to be done.
Bg. 5.14 - The embodied spirit, master of the city of his body,
does not create activities, nor does he induce people to act, nor
does he create the fruits of action. All this is enacted by the
modes of material nature.
Bg. 5.15 - Nor does the Supreme Lord assume anyone's sinful or
pious activities. Embodied beings, however, are bewildered
because of the ignorance which covers their real knowledge.
Bg. 5.16 - When, however, one is enlightened with the knowledge
by which nescience is destroyed, then his knowledge reveals
everything, as the sun lights up everything in the daytime.
Bg. 5.17 - When one's intelligence, mind, faith and refuge are all
fixed in the Supreme, then one becomes fully cleansed of
misgivings through complete knowledge and thus proceeds
straight on the path of liberation.
Bg. 5.18 - The humble sages, by virtue of true knowledge, see
with equal vision a learned and gentle brähmaëa, a cow, an
elephant, a dog and a dog-eater [outcaste].
Bg. 5.19 - Those whose minds are established in sameness and
equanimity have already conquered the conditions of birth and
death. They are flawless like Brahman, and thus they are already
situated in Brahman.
Bg. 5.20 - A person who neither rejoices upon achieving
something pleasant nor laments upon obtaining something
unpleasant, who is self-intelligent, who is unbewildered, and who
knows the science of God, is already situated in transcendence.
Bg. 5.21 - Such a liberated person is not attracted to material
sense pleasure but is always in trance, enjoying the pleasure
within. In this way the self-realized person enjoys unlimited
happiness, for he concentrates on the Supreme.
Bg. 5.22 - An intelligent person does not take part in the sources
of misery, which are due to contact with the material senses. O
son of Kunté, such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so
the wise man does not delight in them.
Bg. 5.23 - Before giving up this present body, if one is able to
tolerate the urges of the material senses and check the force of
desire and anger, he is well situated and is happy in this world.
Bg. 5.24 - One whose happiness is within, who is active and
rejoices within, and whose aim is inward is actually the perfect
mystic. He is liberated in the Supreme, and ultimately he attains
the Supreme.
Bg. 5.25 - Those who are beyond the dualities that arise from
doubts, whose minds are engaged within, who are always busy
working for the welfare of all living beings, and who are free from
all sins achieve liberation in the Supreme.
Bg. 5.26 - Those who are free from anger and all material desires,
who are self-realized, self-disciplined and constantly endeavoring
for perfection, are assured of liberation in the Supreme in the very
near future.
Bg. 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
transcendentalist aiming at liberation becomes free from desire,
fear and anger. One who is always in this state is certainly
liberated.
Bg. 5.29 - A person in full consciousness of Me, knowing Me to be
the ultimate beneficiary of all sacrifices and austerities, the
Supreme Lord of all planets and demigods, and the benefactor
and well-wisher of all living entities, attains peace from the pangs
of material miseries.