Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Verses 2-4 from the Fifth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of "The song of God".

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 5, Verse 2:

श्रीभगवानुवाच |

संन्यास: कर्मयोगश्च नि:श्रेयसकरावुभौ |

तयोस्तु कर्मसंन्यासात्कर्मयोगो विशिष्यते || 2||

śhrī bhagavān uvācha

sannyāsaḥ karma-yogaśh cha niḥśhreyasa-karāvubhau

tayos tu karma-sannyāsāt karma-yogo viśhiṣhyate

🔴The Blessed Lord said:

Both renunciation and Karma Yoga promote the supreme good; but of the two, Karma Yoga is superior to the renunciation of works.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 5, Verse 3:

ज्ञेय: स नित्यसंन्यासी यो न द्वेष्टि न काङ् क्षति |

निर्द्वन्द्वो हि महाबाहो सुखं बन्धात्प्रमुच्यते || 3||

jñeyaḥ sa nitya-sannyāsī yo na dveṣhṭi na kāṅkṣhati

nirdvandvo hi mahā-bāho sukhaṁ bandhāt pramuchyate

🔴Know him to be a perpetual renouncer who neither shuns nor seeks. O mighty-armed! One who is above such contraries is easily liberated from bondage.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 5, Verse 4:

साङ्ख्ययोगौ पृथग्बाला: प्रवदन्ति न पण्डिता: |

एकमप्यास्थित: सम्यगुभयोर्विन्दते फलम् || 4||

sānkhya-yogau pṛithag bālāḥ pravadanti na paṇḍitāḥ

ekamapyāsthitaḥ samyag ubhayor vindate phalam

🔴The thoughtless---not men of discrimination---affirm that Samkhya and Yoga are different. Properly resorting to either of them, one wins the fruit of both.

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