Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya 59

Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya

Chapter-2 Sankhya Yogaḥ

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karmajaṁ buddhi-yuktā hi phalaṁ tyaktvā manīṣiṇaḥ |
janma bandha vinirmuktāḥ padaṁ gacchanty-anāmayam || 51 ||

51. The wise who possess this mental disposition, having relinquished the fruits of action, are freed from the bondage of rebirth and go to the region beyond all suffering.

yadā te mohakalilaṁ buddhir vyati-tariṣyati |
tadā gantāsi nirvedaṁ śrotavyasya śrutasya ca || 52 ||

52. When your intellect has passed beyond the tangle of delusion, you will feel distaste regarding what you shall hear and what you have already heard.

Commentary

If you develop this attitude towards work and become freed from the effects of Karma, your intellect will become free from the web of delusion. The mass of [mental] impurities caused by unskilful actions manifests as delusion which generates attachment to trivial results. Once you have transcended this delusion, you will then spontaneously develop a distaste for them all and will desire to renounce. Sri Krishna now teaches the goal called Self-realisation (Yoga) which results from the performance of duty which is based on the knowledge of the real nature of the Self gained through the refinement of the mind by practice of skilful means.

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