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Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya
(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)
CHAPTER -5
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In accordance with that question, the reply was given by Me that karma-yoga is superior to karma-samnyāsa, without having regard to Knowledge. But Samnyāsa which is related to Knowledge is considered by Me as Samkhya; and that is, in fact, the sublime (paramārtha) yoga. But what is karma-yoga prescribed in the Vedas, that is only figuratively spoken of as yoga and samnyāsa, by reason of its being a means to that (supreme state). How is it the means therefor? This is being told:
6. But renunciation of action, O mighty-armed, is hard to attain to without performance of action! the man of meditation, endowed with Yoga, reaches Brahman ere long. |
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