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Arjuna said: O Krsna 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?
Text 2
The Personality of Godhead repied: 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.
Text 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 mightyarmed Arjuna.
Text 4
Only the ignorant speak of devotional service service [karma-yoga]as being different from the analytical study of the material world [Sankhya]Those who are actually learned say that the who applies himself well to one of these paths achieves the results of both.
Text 5
One who knwos that the position reached by means of analytical study can also be attained by devotional service, and who therefore sees analytical study devotional service to be on the same level,sees things as they are.
Text 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.
Text 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.
Text 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 the 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.
Text 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.
Text 11
The yogis, abandoning attachment,act with body, mind, intelligence even with the senses, only for the purpose of purification.
Text 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.
Text 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.
Text 14
The embodied spirit,master of the city of his body,does not creat activities, nor does he induce people to act,nor does he create the fruits of action.All this enacted by the modes of material nature.
Text 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.
Text 16
When,however, one is enlightened with the knwoledge by which nescince is destroyed, then his knowledge reveals everything, as the sun lights up everything in the daytime.
Text 17
When one's intelligence, mind faith and refuge are all fixed in the Supreme, then on becomes fully cleansed of misgivings through complete knowlede and thus proceeds straight on the path of liberation.
Text 18
The humble sages, by virtue of true knowledge, see with equal vision a learned and gentele brahmana a cow, an elephant, a dog and a dog-eater [outcaste].
Text 19
Those whose minds are established in sameness and equanimity have already conquered the condition of birth and death. They are flawless like Brahman, and thus very are already situated in Brahman.
Text 20
A person who neither rejoices upon achieveing something pleasant nor laments upon obataining something unapleasant, who is self-intelligent, who is unbewildered, and who know the science of God, is already situated in transcendence.
Text 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.
Text 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 Kunti,such pleasures have a beginning and and end so the wise man does not delight in them.
Text 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.
Text 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.
Text 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.
Text 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.
Text 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 th mind, senses and intelligence, the transcendentalest aiming at liberation becomes free from desire, fear and anger. One who is always in this state is certainly liberated.
Text 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.