The entire content of this mail is from Swami Adidevananda's translation of Ramanuja's Gita Bhashya, published by Ramakrishna Mission.
Jnana Yoga & Karma yoga are complementary - 3-8
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| Iskcon Balaji |
Na karmanam an arambhat nais karmyam purushah ashnute I
Na cha samni asanat eva siddhim samadhi gacchati II sloka 4
न कर्मणां अन् आरम्भात नैष् कर्म्यं पुरुषः अश्नुते ।
न च संनि अस्नात एव सिद्धिं समधि गच्छति ।। श्लोक ४
No man experiences freedom from activity by abstaining from works; and no man everattains success by mere renunciation of works.
A person does not attain freedom from karma ie., jnana yoga by non-performance of the acts prescribed in the scriptures and those already begun by him. Success is achieved
by actions done without attachment to the fruits and by way of worshiping the supreme person. Hence, devoid of it, (karma nishtha) one doesnot achieve jnana-nishtha. Those persons who have not worshiped Govinda by acts done without attachment to fruits and whose beginningless and endless accumulation of evil has not been annulled thereby, constant contemplation on the self is not possible. It can be done only if it is preceded by the attainment of a state in which the operation of the senses have been freed from disturbance.
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