Bhagavad Gita Chapter 5 - Sanyasa Yoga - Sloka 5

The entire content of this mail is from Swami Chidbhavananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission.

Karma Yoga is Karma Sanyasa - 1-13

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

Yat sankhyaih prapyate sthanam tad yogair api gamyate I

Ekam sankhyam cha yogam cha yah pashyati sa pashyati II sloka 5

यत् संखैः प्राप्यते स्थानं तद योगैर अपि गम्यते ।

एकं संख्यां च योगं च यः यः पश्यति स पश्यति ।। श्लोक ५

The state reached by the jnanis is also reached by the karma yogis. He who sees jnana and karma yoga as one.

Knowledge and action are the obverse and reverse of the same spiritually evolving entity. The one is not to the exclusion of the other. He who knows truly acts rightly. He who does things perfectly knows them in their right perspective. Know and do, or do and know are interchangeable. The contact with one side of the coin necessarily leads to the contact with the other side. Jnana and karma are in this wise two readings of the same spiritual attainment of the sadhaka. The knower of Brahman becomes Brahman.  The knowing aspect here is samkhya and the becoming aspect, yoga.

Of the two which is more beneficial?  The answer  comes in the next sloka.