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Karma Sanyasa Yoga · The Yoga of Renunciation
Bhagavad Gita 5.8-9
Sanskrit
नैव किञ्चित्करोमीति युक्तो मन्येत तत्त्ववित् । पश्यञ्शृण्वन्स्पृशञ्जिघ्रन्नश्नन्गच्छन्स्वपञ्श्वसन् ॥5.8॥प्रलपन्विसृजन्गृह्णन्नुन्मिषन्निमिषन्नपि । इन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थेषु वर्तन्त इति धारयन् ॥5.9॥
Transliteration
naiva kiñcitkaromīti yukto manyeta tattvavit | paśyañśṛṇvanspṛśañjighrannaśnangacchansvapañśvasan ‖5.8‖ pralapanvisṛjangṛhṇannunmiṣannimiṣannapi | indriyāṇīndriyārtheṣu vartanta iti dhārayan ‖5.9‖
Meaning
“‘I do nothing at all’, thus thinks the harmonised knower of truth, even while seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, walking, sleeping, breathing, speaking, releasing, grasping, opening and closing the eyes, holding that the senses move among the sense-objects.”
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Theme: The Yoga of Renunciation
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