Bhagavad Gita -Srila Prabhupada 98

Shrimad Bhagavad Gita As It Is -Shri Shrimad A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

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Contents of the Gita Summarized
Chapter 2: Verse-48

yoga-sthah kuru karmäni
sangah tyaktvä Dhananjaya
siddhy-asiddhyoh samo bhütvä
samatavm yoga ucyate[1]

TRANSLATION

Perform your duty equipoised, O Arjuna, abandoning all attachment to success or failure. Such equanimity is called yoga.

PURPORT

Krsna tells Arjuna that he should act in yoga. And what is that yoga? Yoga means to concentrate the mind upon the Supreme by controlling the ever-disturbing senses. And who is the Supreme? The Supreme is the Lord. And because He Himself is telling Arjuna to fight, Arjuna has nothing to do with the results of the fight. Gain or victory are Krsna’s concern; Arjuna is simply advised to act according to the dictation of Krsna. The following of Krsna’s dictation is real yoga, and this is practiced in the process called krsna consciousness. By n krsna consciousness only can one give up the sense of proprietorship. One has to become the servant of Krsna, or the servant of the servant of Krsna. That is the right way to discharge duty in krsna consciousness, which alone can help one to act in yoga. Arjuna is a ksatriya, and as such he is participating in the varnasrama-dharma institution. It is said in the Visnu Puräna that in the varnasrama-dharma, the whole aim is to satisfy Visnu. No one should satisfy himself, as is the rule in the material world, but one should satisfy Krsna. So unless one satisfies Krsna, one cannot correctly observe the principles of varnasrama-dharma. Indirectly, Arjuna was advised to act as krsna told him.


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References

  1. yoga-sthah=equipoised; kuru=perform; karmäni=your duties; sangam=attachment; tyaktvä=giving up; Dhananjaya=O Arjuna; siddhi-asiddhyoh=in success and failure; samah=equipoised; bhütvä=becoming; samatvam=equanimity; yogah=yoga;
    ucyateis called.

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