Path of Renunciation
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Arjuna said, "O Krishna, you praise renunciation of actions and also yoga. Pleas...

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The Blessed Lord said, "Renunciation and the Yoga of action both lead to the hig...

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He should be known as a perpetual Sannyasi who neither hates nor desires; for, f...

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Children, not the wise, speak of knowledge and the Yoga of action, or the perfor...

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That place which is reached by the Sankhyas or the Jnanis is also reached by the...

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But, O mighty-armed Arjuna, renunciation is hard to attain without Yoga; the sag...

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He who is devoted to the path of action, whose mind is pure, who has conquered t...

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I do nothing at all," thus would the harmonized knower of Truth think, seeing, h...

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Speaking, letting go, seizing, opening, and closing the eyes, one should be conv...

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He who does actions, offering them to Brahman and abandoning attachment, is not ...

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Yogis, having abandoned attachment, perform actions only through the body, mind,...

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The one who is united (the well-poised or harmonized) having abandoned the fruit...

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Mentally renouncing all actions and being self-controlled, the embodied one happ...

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Neither does the Lord create agency nor actions for the world, nor union with th...

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The Lord takes neither the demerit nor the merit of any; knowledge is enveloped ...

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But to those whose ignorance is destroyed by knowledge of the Self, like the sun...

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Their intellect absorbed in That, their self being That, established in That, wi...

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Sages look with an equal eye on a Brahmana endowed with learning and humility, o...

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Even here in this world, those whose minds rest in reality overcome birth; Brahm...

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Resting in Brahman, with a steady intellect and undeluded, the knower of Brahman...

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With the self unattached to external contacts, he finds happiness in the Self; w...

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The enjoyments that arise from contact are only sources of pain, for they have a...

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He who is able, while still here in this world, to withstand the impulse born ou...

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He who is happy within, who rejoices within, and who is illuminated within, that...

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The sages obtain absolute freedom or Moksha when their sins have been destroyed,...

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Absolute freedom exists on all sides for those self-controlled ascetics who are ...

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Shutting out all external contacts and fixing the gaze between the eyebrows, rea...

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With the senses, mind, and intellect ever controlled, having liberation as their...

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He who knows Me as the enjoyer of sacrifices and austerities, the great Lord of ...