Verse-1
Chapter 6 — Atma Sanyam Yoga
Verse 1
🕉 Original Sanskrit Shloka
II Shree Bhagavaanuvaacha II
anāśritaḥ karmaphalaṁ kāryaṁ karma kkaroti yaḥ
sa sannyāsī ch yogĩ ch na niragnirna cākriyaḥ
🕉 English Translation
Icchha kare na karma phal ki jo,
Kare karma jo karne yogya hee ho.
Hai yogi bhi aur sannayasi wahi,
Na veh chode jo aag kriya ko hee.
📜 Translation
English
The Blessed Lord Said: The one who without seeking the fruits of action, performs the action which ought to be done, is a man of renunciation (sannayasi) and a yogi. The one who gives up the sacrificial fire is not a sannayasi, and who merely refrains from action is not a yogi.
The fifth chapter is Yoga of renunciation of action. The question of Arjun is also with this purport, that no doubt remains regarding the performance and renunciation of action. With this the fifth chapter begins. In that chapter by adopting different ways the Blessed Lord has expounded the real state of action and renunciation. Here once again, the preacher of the Gita is beginning the sixth chapter keeping this in view. If doubts and illusion persist, then spirituality cannot be perfected; elevation, welfare is not possible at all. For this reason, the clarification of every expected possibility is an incomparable aspect of the Gita inspiration.
Without any expectation of the fruits of action, perform action-O seeker! You have to grasp this inspiration of the Gita definitely and Immediately. Time and again, the Lord draws attention to this fact and also seems to be insistent towards it. One should understand its importance. Without this yoga, sannayasa, knowledge, devotion-none is possible. Act but without expectation of fruits. Whatever material and worldly objects are sought or gained it is certain that they will be transitory and perishable. The pleasure derived from it will also be fleeting.
Think then what its benefit is, where the wisdom lies. Awaken your dormant intellect. Do not take refuge in the perishable, but seek refuge in the eternal and immortal. The expectation of fruits will keep the propensity entangled in the perishable world. Even if one outwardly gives up worldly action or sacrificial rites performed before fire, or even the sacrificial fire itself that is of no avail, if inside the hope-the expectation of worldly fruits lingers.
Fire is given up in renunciation but the Gita is the purest philosophy of life. There is no approval of just external states in this scripture. Three is the internal state because everything lies inside! All troubles are inside, hopes, expectation and desires and attachments are all inside. When all these are burnt in the fire of knowledge then the aim is achieved, then only will yoga and sannaysa become accomplished. When the fire of knowledge manifests from inside, then the outward states will automatically become all right. Often sitting in a solitary cave, in an uninhabited forest, etc. is considered to be yoga and a particularly special apparel is considered as part of state of yoga. Read this significant inspiration of the Gita with due attention, understand and at the inception of undertaking action, relinquish the expectation of fruits from within. Shelter should be taken only in the immortal and permanent power! Both sannayasa and yoga will be perfected because-