The Yoga of Renunciation

Arjuna said: O Krishna, You praise the renunciation of actions and at the same time the…

The Blessed Lord said: Both renunciation of actions and the yoga of selfless action lead…

One who neither hates nor desires the fruits of actions is known as a perpetual renunciant

Only the ignorant speak of the path of knowledge (Sankhya) and the path of action (Yoga)…

The state attained by those who follow the path of knowledge is also reached by those who…

But renunciation of action, O mighty-armed one, is difficult to attain without the…

One who is united in yoga, whose mind is purified, whose self is conquered, whose senses…

The knower of truth, though seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, walking,…

Speaking, releasing, grasping, opening and closing the eyes — the wise person understands…

One who performs all actions surrendering them to Brahman, abandoning attachment, is not…

Yogis perform actions with the body, mind, intellect, and even the senses alone,…

The united one (yogi), having abandoned the fruits of action, attains lasting peace

The self-controlled embodied being, having mentally renounced all actions, dwells happily…

The Lord (the Self) does not create the sense of doership or the actions of beings, nor…

The all-pervading Lord does not accept the sin or the merit of anyone

But for those in whom ignorance of the Self is destroyed by knowledge, that knowledge,…

Those whose intellects are absorbed in That, whose selves are established in That, who…

The wise see with equal vision a learned and humble Brahmin, a cow, an elephant, a dog,…

Even in this life, those whose minds are established in equanimity have conquered birth…

One should neither rejoice upon obtaining what is pleasant nor be disturbed upon…

One whose self is unattached to external sense pleasures discovers the happiness that is…

Pleasures born of sense contact are in truth sources of suffering

One who is able to withstand the impulse arising from desire and anger, even before…

One who finds happiness within, who rejoices within, and who is illumined within — that…

The sages whose sins are destroyed, whose doubts are cut asunder, who are…

For those ascetics who are free from desire and anger, who have controlled their minds…

Shutting out all external sense contacts, fixing the gaze between the eyebrows,…

The sage who has controlled the senses, mind, and intellect, who is devoted to…

Having known Me as the enjoyer of all sacrifices and austerities, the supreme Lord of all…