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Chapter 2
Link:-After asking Arjuna to perform his duty, in the preceding verse, the Lord describes how he should remain even-minded, while performing actions.
yogasthah kuru karmani sangam tyaktva dhananjaya
siddhyasiddhyoh samo bhutva samatvam yoga ucyate
O Dhananjaya (the conqueror of wealth), perform actions (duties) being steadfast in the path of Yoga, renouncing attachment, having become even-minded in success and failure; and that equanimity (equilibrium) is called Yoga. 48
Comment:-
Sangam tyaktva:-You can become indifferent, only if you have no attachment for actions, their fruits; place, time, incidents, circumstances, bodies and minds etc., which belong to matter, because without being indifferent to actions, these cannot lead you to salvation.
Siddhyasiddhyoh samo bhutva:-Renunciation of attachment will result in evenness of mind. A man should be even-minded, in favourable and unfavourable circumstances, in honour and dishonour, and in praise and reproach.[1]
A follower of the Discipline of Disinterested Action, should be so even-minded while performing actions, that he should not bother about their accomplishment or non-accomplishment, for getting the fruit or not, for getting salvation or not. He should remain devoted to his duty. If an aspirant has not realized detachment and equanimity, he should aim at evenness of mind. By having this approach, a striver will attain equanimity finally, which will lead to God-realization or Self-realization (2/53).
Yogasthah kuru karmani:-Lord Krsna says, that the essence of true Yoga lies in even-mindedness, in success, as well as, failure. The person who keeps the mind ever in the poised state is called steadfast in Yoga. The sameness of mind should remain intact from the beginning of an action, to its end. It should not be a temporary phase, otherwise the propensities of attraction and repulsion, will go on coming up. We should never allow such propensities to develop.
Samatvam yoga ucyate:-Yoga is, nothing but equanimity i.e., equanimity is the embodiment of Lord Himself. Further, in the nineteenth verse of the fifth chapter, Lord Krsna says, "Those whose mind is established in equanimity, have conquered me mortal plane, because Brahma (the Absolute) is flawless and equanimous, hence they are established in the Eternal."
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