Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Verses 48-51 from the second chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of "The song of God".

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🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2, Verse 48:

योगस्थ: कुरु कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा धनञ्जय |

सिद्ध्यसिद्ध्यो: समो भूत्वा समत्वं योग उच्यते || 48||

yoga-sthaḥ kuru karmāṇi saṅgaṁ tyaktvā dhanañjaya

siddhy-asiddhyoḥ samo bhūtvā samatvaṁ yoga uchyate

🪔Giving up attachment and established in Yoga, with evenness of mind in success and failure, perform works, O Arjuna. This evenness is Yoga.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2, Verse 49:

दूरेण ह्यवरं कर्म बुद्धियोगाद्धनञ्जय |

बुद्धौ शरणमन्विच्छ कृपणा: फलहेतव: || 49||

dūreṇa hy-avaraṁ karma buddhi-yogād dhanañjaya

buddhau śharaṇam anvichchha kṛipaṇāḥ phala-hetavaḥ

🪔Work impelled by the desire for the fruit is indeed far inferior, evenness of mind being far above it. O Arjuna! Take refuge in the evenness of intelligence. Pitiful are those impelled by the desire for the fruits of works.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2, Verse 50:

बुद्धियुक्तो जहातीह उभे सुकृतदुष्कृते |

तस्माद्योगाय युज्यस्व योग: कर्मसु कौशलम् || 50||

buddhi-yukto jahātīha ubhe sukṛita-duṣhkṛite

tasmād yogāya yujyasva yogaḥ karmasu kauśhalam

🪔With the intelligence of evenness one discards (in this world) both good and evil works (i.e the merits and demerits of works). Therefore strive to secure this Yoga; Yoga is skill in works.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2, Verse 51:

कर्मजं बुद्धियुक्ता हि फलं त्यक्त्वा मनीषिण: |

जन्मबन्धविनिर्मुक्ता: पदं गच्छन्त्यनामयम् || 51||

karma-jaṁ buddhi-yuktā hi phalaṁ tyaktvā manīṣhiṇaḥ

janma-bandha-vinirmuktāḥ padaṁ gachchhanty-anāmayam

🪔Wise men, united with the intelligence of evenness, discard, indeed, the fruits of works; they are liberated from the bondage of birth and attain the status which is free from all sufferings.

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Vedanta Society of New York is affiliated with the Ramakrishna Order of India. In fact, this is the Order's first Center started by Swami Vivekananda, in 1894. It was a historic event, for the seed of the world-wide Ramakrishna Movement was sown here in New York over a century ago. Swami Sarvapriyananda is the present Resident Minister and Spiritual Leader of the Vedanta Society of New York.