Monday, June 30, 2008

Yoga of Renunciation of Action

I came across this passage from the Bhagavad Gita.
||Yoga of Renunciation of Action||

Said Arjuna:

"On the one hand you praise renunciation of action and on other you commend the yoga of action. Please tell me clearly which of the two is better."

[Chapter 5 verse 1]
Said the Supreme Lord:

"Both the yoga of action and the renunciation of action are both good for liberation. But of the two, the yoga of action is superior"

[Chapter 5 verse 2]
"The state that can be achieved by following the yoga of knowledge, can also be achieved by following the yoga of action. He who sees both these yogas as one really sees."

[Chapter 5 verse 5]
"But those who destroy their ignorance by means of knowledge, their knowledge illuminates and reveals the Supreme Lord the way Aditya, the sun god illuminates the world."

[Chapter 5 verse 16]

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