Speaker: Śrī Kṛṣṇa
बुद्धियुक्तो जहातीह उभे सुकृतदुष्कृते ।
तस्माद्योगाय युज्यस्व योगः कर्मसु कौशलम् ॥५०॥
buddhi-yukto jahātīha
ubhe sukṛta-duṣkṛte
tasmād yogāya yujyasva
yogaḥ karmasu kauśalam
Word for word (synonyms)
- buddhi-yuktaḥ
- one who is engaged in devotional service
- jahāti
- can get rid of
- iha
- in this life
- ubhe
- in both
- sukṛta-duṣkṛte
- in good and bad results
- tasmāt
- therefore
- yogāya
- for the sake of devotional service
- yujyasva
- be so engaged
- yogaḥ
- Kṛṣṇa consciousness
- karmasu
- in all activities
- kauśalam
- art
Translation
A man engaged in devotional service rids himself of both good and bad actions even in this life. Therefore strive for yoga, O Arjuna, which is the art of all work.
Defined in the Gītā
Yoga
What is yoga?
Be steadfast in yoga, O Arjuna. Perform your duty and abandon all attachment to success or failure. Such evenness of mind is called yoga.
This verse is one of the Gītā’s own answers.
Purport
Since time immemorial each living entity has accumulated the various reactions of his good and bad work, As such, he is continuously ignorant of his real constitutional position. One's ignorance can be removed by the instruction of the Bhagavad-gītā which teaches one to surrender unto Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa in all respects and become liberated from the chained victimization of action and reaction, birth after birth. Arjuna is therefore advised to act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the purifying process of resultant action.
What this verse teaches
No reactions
- Subsection
- Benefits of acting in Buddhi-yoga
Śrīla Prabhupāda lectures 2
- Bhagavad-gītā 2.49–51 1966-04-05 · New York
- Bhagavad-gītā 2.46-62 1968-12-16
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