Shloka: BG 5.1
Arjuna said, "O Krishna, you praise renunciation of actions and also yoga. Please tell me conclusively which is better o...
Shloka: BG 5.2
The Blessed Lord said, "Renunciation and the Yoga of action both lead to the highest bliss; but of the two, the Yoga of ...
Shloka: BG 5.3
He should be known as a perpetual Sannyasi who neither hates nor desires; for, free from the pairs of opposites, O might...
Shloka: BG 5.4
Children, not the wise, speak of knowledge and the Yoga of action, or the performance of action, as though they are dist...
Shloka: BG 5.5
That place which is reached by the Sankhyas or the Jnanis is also reached by the Yogis (Karma Yogis). He who sees knowle...
Shloka: BG 5.6
But, O mighty-armed Arjuna, renunciation is hard to attain without Yoga; the sage who is in harmony with Yoga quickly go...
Shloka: BG 5.7
He who is devoted to the path of action, whose mind is pure, who has conquered the self, who has subdued his senses, and...
Shloka: BG 5.8
I do nothing at all," thus would the harmonized knower of Truth think, seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, goin...
Shloka: BG 5.9
Speaking, letting go, seizing, opening, and closing the eyes, one should be convinced that the senses move among the sen...
Shloka: BG 5.10
He who does actions, offering them to Brahman and abandoning attachment, is not tainted by sin, just as a lotus leaf is ...
Shloka: BG 5.11
Yogis, having abandoned attachment, perform actions only through the body, mind, intellect, and even the senses, for the...
Shloka: BG 5.12
The one who is united (the well-poised or harmonized) having abandoned the fruit of action attains eternal peace; wherea...
Shloka: BG 5.13
Mentally renouncing all actions and being self-controlled, the embodied one happily rests in the nine-gated city, neithe...
Shloka: BG 5.14
Neither does the Lord create agency nor actions for the world, nor union with the fruits of actions; rather, it is Natur...
Shloka: BG 5.15
The Lord takes neither the demerit nor the merit of any; knowledge is enveloped by ignorance, and beings are deluded.
Shloka: BG 5.16
But to those whose ignorance is destroyed by knowledge of the Self, like the sun, knowledge reveals the Supreme Brahman.
Shloka: BG 5.17
Their intellect absorbed in That, their self being That, established in That, with That as their supreme goal, they go w...
Shloka: BG 5.18
Sages look with an equal eye on a Brahmana endowed with learning and humility, on a cow, an elephant, a dog, and even an...
Shloka: BG 5.19
Even here in this world, those whose minds rest in reality overcome birth; Brahman is indeed spotless and real; therefor...
Shloka: BG 5.20
Resting in Brahman, with a steady intellect and undeluded, the knower of Brahman neither rejoices upon obtaining what is...
Shloka: BG 5.21
With the self unattached to external contacts, he finds happiness in the Self; with the self engaged in the meditation o...
Shloka: BG 5.22
The enjoyments that arise from contact are only sources of pain, for they have a beginning and an end, O Arjuna; the wis...
Shloka: BG 5.23
He who is able, while still here in this world, to withstand the impulse born out of desire and anger before the liberat...
Shloka: BG 5.24
He who is happy within, who rejoices within, and who is illuminated within, that Yogi attains absolute freedom, or Moksh...
Shloka: BG 5.25
The sages obtain absolute freedom or Moksha when their sins have been destroyed, their dualities have been torn asunder,...
Shloka: BG 5.26
Absolute freedom exists on all sides for those self-controlled ascetics who are free from desire and anger, who have con...
Shloka: BG 5.27
Shutting out all external contacts and fixing the gaze between the eyebrows, realizing the outgoing and incoming breaths...
Shloka: BG 5.28
With the senses, mind, and intellect ever controlled, having liberation as their supreme goal, free from desire, fear, a...
Shloka: BG 5.29