Bhagavad Gita Chapter 5 - Sanyasa Yoga - Sloka 3

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Karma Yoga is Karma Sanyasa - 1-13

1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 5 -Sanyasa Yoga - Sloka 3

Karma Sanyasa too has it s own reward. Blessings such as quietude and tranquility ensue from it. Action on the other hand necessarily means disturbance of equilibrium. Objections to this effect maybe raised; but they are met in the following sloka :

Jneyah sa nitya sanyasi yah na dveshti na kankshati I

Nirdvandvah hi mahabaho sukham bandhat pramuchyate II sloka ३

ज्ञेयः स नित्य सन्यासी यः न द्वेष्टि  न काङ्क्षति ।

निर्द्वन्द्वः हि महाबाहो सुखं बन्धात् प्रमुच्यते ।। श्लोक ३

He should be known a constant sanyasin, who neither hates nor desires; free from the pair of opposites, O mighty-armed, he is easily set free from bondage.

It is not sanyasa is a man renounces duty due to dislike; neither  is it sanyasa if he delights in escaping from duty. Selfishness masquerades here as self denial. Then there is the man who mistakes the inertia in himself for equilibrium. His delight in slothfulness is interpreted as delight in the self. It is not action but attitude that binds or liberates a man. The emptiness of the posed tranquility gets itself exposed in tribulation. But the karma yogi is proof against imaginary quietude. In the midst of intense activities he is free from the likes an dislikes. true tranquility is therefore tangible in him. While acting he is not the agent; while being in the world, he is not of the world. Therefore karma yogi alone is the true karma sanyasi