Gita Rahasya -Tilak 761

Srimad Bhagavadgita-Rahasya OR Karma-Yoga-Sastra -Bal Gangadhar Tilak

CHAPTER 4 SRIMAD BHAGAVADGITA तस्मादज्ञानसंभूतं हृत्स्थं ज्ञानासिनात्मन: । छित्त्वैनं संशयं योगमातिष्ठोत्तिष्ठ भारत ॥42॥ इति श्रीमद्भगवद्गीतासु उपनिषत्‍सु ब्रह्मविद्यायां योगशास्‍त्रे श्रीकृष्‍णार्जुनसंवादे ज्ञानकर्मसंन्‍यासयोगो नाम चतुर्थोध्‍याय: ।। 4 ।। Translation:-(42) Therefore, cutting off with the sword of Knowledge, this doubt, which has arisen in your heart as a result of Ignorance, take shelter, in the (Karma-) Yoga, (and) O Bharata ! stand up (and fight). Description:-[Just as in the Isavasyopanisad, after shortly showing the respective uses of vidya and avidya, a direction has been given to act without giving up either vidya or avidya, so in the Gita, in these two stanzas, after shortly showing the respective uses of Jnana and (Karma-) Yoga, the advice has been given to Arjuna to perform Action with the joint help of Jnana and Yoga. The respective uses of these two are that when a man performs Action by the Desireless Jnana-Yoga, the binding effect of Karma (Action) is destroyed, and it does not obstruct Release ; and as a result of Jnana, all doubt or mental confusion is annihilated and one attains Release. Therefore, the ultimate and final advice to Arjuna is, that he should not seek the protection of either Karma alone, or of Jfiana alone, but should make use of both, and fight. It has been shown in the Gita-Rahasya that because Arjuna has to stand up and fight here by taking shelter or protection from Yoga, the word 'Yoga' must here be interpreted as meaning the Karma- Yoga. This fusion of Jnana and Yoga, is also again referred to later on in the Gita, in describing the characteristics of 'godly endowment', by the words "jnana-yogavyavasthitih".] Translation:-Thus ends the fourth chapter entitled the Jnana-Karma- SAMNYASA Yoga in the dialogue between Sri Krsna and Arjuna on the Yoga included in the Science of the Brahman (that is, on the Karma- Yoga), in the Upanisad sung (that is, told) by the Blessed Lord. Description:- [It must be borne in mind that the word ' samnyasa ' in the phrase ' jnana-karma-samnyasa ' is not literal karma- tyaga (Abandonment of Action), but is the Desireless ' samnyasa ' or the 'Dedication' of all Action to the Paramesvara; and the same explanation has been given later on in the beginning of Chapter XVIII. ]