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CHAPTER 6
SRIMAD BHAGAVADGITA
Description:-[Thus far it has been proved that,
- though nothing except Knowledge is necessary for attaining Release, the Jnanin must continue to perform Actions even after the Acquisition of Jnana, for universal welfare; but that,
- he must perform these with an Equable Reason, and having given up the Desire for Fruit, so that they may not have any binding effect; that,
- this is known as the Karma-Yoga ; and that,
- this path of life is more praise-worthy than the path of Renunciation of Action (karma-samnyasa). Nevertheless, the justification of Karma-Yoga is not thereby finished. Already in Chapter III, in describing Desire, Anger, etc., the Blessed Lord has explained to Arjuna, that these enemies make their home in the organs, the Mind, and the Reason of humans, and destroy their Spiritual Knowledge[1] as also their Specified
Knowledge[2],[3]; and advised him that
he should, therefore, first conquer these enemies by controlling his senses.
In order that this advice should be complete, it was necessary to explain
- how to acquire control over the senses, and
- what is Spiritual Knowledge and what Specified Knowledge ; but, in the meantime, the
Blessed Lord, in reply to the question of Arjuna,.
- explained to him which path of life, out of the paths of Karma-Yoga and Karma-Samnyasa, was the better one ;
- harmonised these two paths of life as far as possible ; and
- showed how the Brahma-nirvana Release could be obtained
without giving up Action, and by performing Action
with an unattached Reason. The Blessed Lord now starts
in this chapter a description of the means by which it is
possible to acquire this unattached[4], or Brahman
devoted[5] state, which is necessary even in
Karma-Yoga. Nevertheless, in order that it should be
clear that this explanation has not been given for
preaching the Patanjala-Yoga independently, the Blessed
Lord, to start with, repeats here what has been expounded
in the previous chapters, namely that, the true Samnyasin
is the person, who performs Actions, having given up the
Hope for Fruit of Action, and not the one, who abandons
Action[6]— ]
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