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Karmasaninyasa Yogah
(WAY OF RENUNCIATION OF ACTION)
In the passages commencing from "He who can see inactionin action"[1], "He is a yogi and a doer of all action"[2]."Whose actions are burnt by the lire of Knowledge"[3], "By performing mere bodily action"[4], "content withwhat comes to him by chance"[5], "The process is Brahman,the oblation is Brahman"[6], "Know them all to be born ofaction"[7], "All action in its entirety, O Partha!"[8],"The fire of Knowledge (reduces) all karma (to ashes)"[9],and ending with, "With work renounced by yoga", theLord has taught the renunciation of all action. And in the passage, "cutting this doubt take refuge in yoga"[10], He has advised Arjuna to devote himself to yoga, consisting in the performance of action. These two-performanceof action and renunciation of action-being opposed to each other,like moving and remaining stationary, are impossible of executionby one (and the same person) simultaneously; and the performance at different times (by the same person) has not also been prescribed. It accordingly follows that only one of these two is to be engagedin. Therefore, thinking that the more commendable of the two performance of action, orrenunciation there of-should be engaged in, and not the other, and (consequently) eager to learn that whichis the more commendable, Arjuna enquired (the Lord)," Renunciation of actions, O Krsna, etc."[11] (which is the commencement of the present Chapter).
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