Chapter-VI
The Yoga of Knowledge & Action
This chapter describes Sankhyayoga and the yoga or disinterested action and describes the signs of Sankhyayogi and Nishkama Karmayogi and their glories. It also describes Jnanyoga ( Yoga of Knowledge) and Dharamyoga ( meditation) with devotion. Pandava Prince asks Sri Bhagwan that he had heard description of both Yoga of Knowledge and Yoga of Action but which yoga is decidedly conducive to his good. Lord Sri Bhagwan replies that both these yogas lead to supreme bliss. Howeve, the Yoga of Action being easier to practice is superior to Yoga of Knowledge. The Karmayogi who neither hates nor desires should be ever considered as renouncer. For Arjuna, who is free from pair of opposites is easily freed from bondage. It is the ignorant, not the wise who say that Sankhyayoga and Karmayoga lead to divergent results. For one who is firmly established in either gets the fruit of both that is God realisation. The supreme state which is reached by Sankhyayogi is attained also by karmayogi. So he alone who sees Sankhyayoga and Karmayoga as one one really sees ( as far as their result goes). The Karmayogi who has fully conquered his mind and mastered his senses, whose heart is pure and who has identified with the self of all beings that is God remains untainted even though performing actions. The Sankhyayogi who knows the reality of things, even though seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating or drinking, walking, sleeping, breathing, speaking, answering the calls of nature, grasping and opening or closing his eyes that he he does nothing, holding that it is senses that are moving among their objects. He who acts offering all actions to God, and shaking off attachment, remains untouched by sin as the lotus leaf by water. The Karmayogi perform action only with their senses, mind, intellect, body as well withdrawing the feeling of mine in respect of them and shaking off attachment simply for the sake of self purification. Offering the fruit of actions to God, the Karmayogi attains everlasting peace in the shape of God realisation, whereas he who works with selfish motive, being attached to the fruit of actions through desire gets tied down. The self controlled Sankhyayogi doing nothing himself nd getting nothing done by others rests happily in God, the symbol of Truth, Knowledge and Bliss, mentally relegating all actions to the mansions of nine gates (Body with nine outlets). God determines not the doership nor the doings of men, nor even their contact with the fruit of actions; but it is nature alone that functions the omnipresent God who does not receive the virtue or sin of anyone. Knowledge is enveloped with ignorance ; hence it is that beings are constantly falling prey to delusion. In the case, however of those whose said ignorance has been set aside by true knowledge of God, that wisdom shining like the Sun reveals the supreme. Those whose mind and intellect are wholly merged in Him who remains constantly established in identifying with Him, and have finally become one with Him, their sins being wiped out by wisdom reach the state whence there is no return. Even here is the mortal plane conquered by those whose mind is established in unity, since the Absolute is untouched by evil and knows no distinction, hence they are established in the Eternal. He, who with reason firm and free from doubt, rejoices not on obtaining what is pleasant and does not feel perturbed on meeting with the unpleasant, that knower of Brahma lives eternally in identity with Brahma. He whose mind remains unattached to sense objects, derives through meditation the Sattvika joy which dwells in mind; then that Yogi having completely identified himself through meditation with Brahma, enjoys Eternal Bliss. The pleasures which are born of sense contacts are verily a source of suffering only (though appearing as enjoyable to worldly minded people). They have a beginning and an end (they go and come). It is for this reason a wise man does not indulge in them. He alone who is able to stand in this very life before casting off this body, the urges of lust and anger in a Yogi; and he alone is happy a happy man. He who is happy with himself, enjoys within him the delight of the soul,and even so is illumined by the inner light( light of soul), such a Yogi ( Sankhyayogi) identified with Brahma attains Brahma, who is all peace. The seers whose sins have been wiped out, whose doubts have been dispelled by knowledge, whose disciplined mind is firmly established in God, and who are actively engaged in the service of all beings attain Brahma, who is all peace. To those wise man who are freed of lust and anger, who have subdued their mind have realised God. Brahma, the abode of eternal peace is present all around. Shutting out all thoughts of external enjoyments with the gaze fixed on all the space between the eyebrows, having regulated the Prana ( inhalation) and the Apana ( outgoing) breaths flowing within the nostrils, he who has brought his senses, mind and intellect under control – such a comprehensive soul intent on liberation and free from desire, fear and anger is ever liberated. Having known God in reality as the enjoyer of all sacrifices and austerities, the supreme Lord of all the worlds, and the disinterested friend of all beings, His devotee attains peace.
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