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Do thou tell me decisively. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.27.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.27.2) śrībhagavānuvāca | saṃnyāsaḥ karmayogaśca niḥśreyasakarāvubhau | tayostu karmasaṃnyāsātkarmayogo viśiṣyate || 2 || > The Blessed Lord said: > Both renunciation and performance of action lead to freedom: of these, performance of action is superior to the renunciation of action. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.27.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.27.3) jñeyaḥ sa nityasaṃnyāsī yo na dveṣṭi na kāṅkṣati | nirdvaṃdvo hi mahābāho sukhaṃ bandhātpramucyate || 3 || > He should be known a constant Sannyâsi, who neither likes nor dislikes: for, free from the pairs of opposites, mighty-armed, he is easily set free from bondage. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.27.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.27.4) sāṃkhyayogau pṛthagbālāḥ pravadanti na paṇḍitāḥ | ekamapyāsthitaḥ samyagubhayorvindate phalam || 4 || > Children, not the wise, speak of knowledge and performance of action, as distinct. He who truly lives in one, gains the fruits of both. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.27.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.27.5) yatsāṃkhyaiḥ prāpyate sthānaṃ tadyogairapi gamyate | ekaṃ sāṃkhyaṃ ca yogaṃ ca yaḥ paśyati sa paśyati || 5 || > The plane which is reached by the Jnânins is also reached by the Karmayogins. Who sees knowledge and performance of action as one, he sees. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.27.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.27.6) saṃnyāsastu mahābāho duḥkhamāptumayogataḥ | yogayukto munirbrahma nacireṇādhigacchati || 6 || > Renunciation of action, O mighty-armed, is hard to attain to without performance of action; the man of meditation, purified by devotion to action, quickly goes to Brahman. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.27.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.27.7) yogayukto viśuddhātmā vijitātmā jitendriyaḥ | sarvabhūtātmabhūtātmā kurvannapi na lipyate || 7 || > With the mind purified by devotion to performance of action, and the body conquered, and senses subdued, one who realises one's Self, as the Self in all beings, though acting, is not tainted. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.27.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.27.8) naiva kiṃcitkaromīti yukto manyeta tattvavit | paśyañśṛṇvanspṛśañjighrannaśnangacchansvapañśvasan || 8 || > The knower of Truth, (being) centred (in the Self) should think, "I do nothing at all"—though seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, going, sleeping, breathing, speaking, letting go, holding, opening and closing the eyes—convinced that it is the senses that move among sense-objects. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.27.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.27.9) pralapanvisṛjangṛhṇannunmiṣannimiṣannapi | indriyāṇīndriyārtheṣu vartanta iti dhārayan || 9 || ### [6.27.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.27.10) brahmaṇyādhāya karmāṇi saṅgaṃ tyaktvā karoti yaḥ | lipyate na sa pāpena padmapatramivāmbhasā || 10 || > He who does actions forsaking attachment, resigning them to Brahman, is not soiled by evil, like unto a lotus-leaf by water. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.27.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.27.11) kāyena manasā buddhyā kevalairindriyairapi | yoginaḥ karma kurvanti saṅgaṃ tyaktvātmaśuddhaye || 11 || > Devotees in the path of work perform action, only with body, mind, senses, and intellect, forsaking attachment, for the purification of the heart. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.27.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.27.12) yuktaḥ karmaphalaṃ tyaktvā śāntimāpnoti naiṣṭhikīm | ayuktaḥ kāmakāreṇa phale sakto nibadhyate || 12 || > The well-poised, forsaking the fruit of action, attains peace, born of steadfastness; the unbalanced one, led by desire, is bound by being attached to the fruit (of action). > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.27.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.27.13) sarvakarmāṇi manasā saṃnyasyāste sukhaṃ vaśī | navadvāre pure dehī naiva kurvanna kārayan || 13 || > The subduer (of the senses), having renounced all actions by discrimination, rests happily in the city of the nine gates, neither acting, nor causing (others) to act. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.27.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.27.14) na kartṛtvaṃ na karmāṇi lokasya sṛjati prabhuḥ | na karmaphalasaṃyogaṃ svabhāvastu pravartate || 14 || > Neither agency, nor actions does the Lord create for the world, nor (does He bring about) the union with the fruit of action. It is universal ignorance that does. (it all). > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.27.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.27.15) nādatte kasyacitpāpaṃ na caiva sukṛtaṃ vibhuḥ | ajñānenāvṛtaṃ jñānaṃ tena muhyanti jantavaḥ || 15 || > The Omnipresent takes note of the merit or demerit of none. Knowledge is enveloped in ignorance, hence do beings get deluded. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.27.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.27.16) jñānena tu tadajñānaṃ yeṣāṃ nāśitamātmanaḥ | teṣāmādityavajjñānaṃ prakāśayati tatparam || 16 || > But whose ignorance is destroyed by the knowledge of Self,—that knowledge of theirs, like the sun, reveals the Supreme (Brahman). > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.27.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.27.17) tadbuddhayastadātmānastanniṣṭhāstatparāyaṇāḥ | gacchantyapunarāvṛttiṃ jñānanirdhūtakalmaṣāḥ || 17 || > Those who have their intellect absorbed in That, whose self is That, whose steadfastness is in That, whose consummation is That, their impurities cleansed by knowledge, they attain to Non-return (Moksha). > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.27.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.27.18) vidyāvinayasaṃpanne brāhmaṇe gavi hastini | śuni caiva śvapāke ca paṇḍitāḥ samadarśinaḥ || 18 || > The knowers of the Self look with an equal eye on a Brâhmana endowed with learning and humility, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and a pariah. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.27.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.27.19) ihaiva tairjitaḥ sargo yeṣāṃ sāmye sthitaṃ manaḥ | nirdoṣaṃ hi samaṃ brahma tasmādbrahmaṇi te sthitāḥ || 19 || > (Relative) existence has been conquered by them, even in this world, whose mind rests in evenness, since Brahman is even and without imperfection: therefore they indeed rest in Brahman. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.27.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.27.20) na prahṛṣyetpriyaṃ prāpya nodvijetprāpya cāpriyam | sthirabuddhirasaṃmūḍho brahmavidbrahmaṇi sthitaḥ || 20 || > Resting in Brahman, with intellect steady, and without delusion, the knower of Brahman neither rejoiceth on receiving what is pleasant, nor grieveth on receiving what is unpleasant. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.27.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.27.21) bāhyasparśeṣvasaktātmā vindatyātmani yatsukham | sa brahmayogayuktātmā sukhamakṣayamaśnute || 21 || > With the heart unattached to external objects, he realises the joy that is in the Self. With the heart devoted to the meditation of Brahman, he attains un-decaying happiness. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.27.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.27.22) ye hi saṃsparśajā bhogā duḥkhayonaya eva te | ādyantavantaḥ kaunteya na teṣu ramate budhaḥ || 22 || > Since enjoyments that are contact-born are parents of misery alone, and with beginning and end, O son of Kunti, a wise man does not seek pleasure in them. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.27.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.27.23) śaknotīhaiva yaḥ soḍhuṃ prākśarīravimokṣaṇāt | kāmakrodhodbhavaṃ vegaṃ sa yuktaḥ sa sukhī naraḥ || 23 || > He who can withstand in this world, before the liberation from the body, the impulse arising from lust and anger, he is steadfast (in Yoga), he is a happy man. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.27.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.27.24) yo'ntaḥsukho'ntarārāmastathāntarjyotireva yaḥ | sa yogī brahmanirvāṇaṃ brahmabhūto'dhigacchati || 24 || > Whose happiness is within, whose relaxation is within, whose light is within, that Yogi alone, becoming Brahman, gains absolute freedom. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.27.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.27.25) labhante brahmanirvāṇamṛṣayaḥ kṣīṇakalmaṣāḥ | chinnadvaidhā yatātmānaḥ sarvabhūtahite ratāḥ || 25 || > With imperfections exhausted, doubts dispelled, senses controlled, engaged in the good of all beings, the Rishis obtain absolute freedom. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.27.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.27.26) kāmakrodhaviyuktānāṃ yatīnāṃ yatacetasām | abhito brahmanirvāṇaṃ vartate viditātmanām || 26 || > Released from lust and anger, the heart controlled, the Self realised, absolute freedom is for such Sannyâsis, both here and hereafter. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.27.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.27.27) sparśānkṛtvā bahirbāhyāṃścakṣuścaivāntare bhruvoḥ | prāṇāpānau samau kṛtvā nāsābhyantaracāriṇau || 27 || > Shutting out external objects, steadying the eyes between the eyebrows, restricting the even currents of Prâna and Apâna inside the nostrils; the senses, mind, and intellect controlled, with Moksha as the supreme goal, freed from desire, fear and anger: such a man of meditation is verily free for ever. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.27.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.27.28) yatendriyamanobuddhirmunirmokṣaparāyaṇaḥ | vigatecchābhayakrodho yaḥ sadā mukta eva saḥ || 28 || ### [6.27.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.27.29) bhoktāraṃ yajñatapasāṃ sarvalokamaheśvaram | suhṛdaṃ sarvabhūtānāṃ jñātvā māṃ śāntimṛcchati || 29 || > Knowing Me as the dispenser of Yajnas and asceticisms, as the Great Lord of all worlds, as the friend of all beings, he attains Peace. > The end of the fifth chapter, designated The Way of Renunciation. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ## Translations (2) - [Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita~en-swarupananda.5.1) — Swami Swarupananda 1909, English - [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa~en-ganguli.6.29.1) — Kisari Mohan Ganguli 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Bhāratabhāvadīpa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa!nilakantha.6.29.1) — Nīlakaṇṭha Caturdhara 1650, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (2) - [Southern recension](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*southern.6.29.1) — Sanskrit - [Vulgate (Nīlakaṇṭha's text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.6.29.1) — Sanskrit ## Linked texts (8) - [Bhagavadgītā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita.5.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Vulgate (700 verses)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*vulgate.5.1) — Sanskrit - [Śuddharājayoga](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.yoga.suddharajayoga.1.51) — Sanskrit - [Yogavāsiṣṭha (vulgate)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.ramayana.upajivya.yogavasistha*vulgate.6.53.9) — Sanskrit - [Laghustutiḥ (vṛttisametā)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.general.devistotra.laghustuti.36) — Sanskrit - [Vedārthasaṅgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.visistadvaita.purvacarya.vedarthasangraha.79) — Rāmānuja, Sanskrit - [Vicāratrayī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.advaita.vada.vicaratrayi.15.3) — Kṛṣṇānanda Sarasvatī 1697, Sanskrit - [Vyāsatātparyanirṇaya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.advaita.vada.vyasatatparyanirnaya.1.p16) — Aṇṇeya Paṇḍita 1725, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.27) · Pramāṇa