BG 5.6
However, without right action, it is difficult to attain renunciation. The sage who is a master of righteous action quickly attains divine consciousness.
योगयुक्तो मुनिर्ब्रह्म नचिरेणाधिगच्छति
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sannyāsas — renunciation
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tu — but
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mahā-bāho — Arjuna
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mahā — great, mighty
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bāho — arms
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duḥkham — distress
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āptum — attains
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ayogataḥ — without righteous action
without karma yoga -
yoga-yukto — one who is established in righteous action
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yoga — righteous action, Yoga
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yukto — established, fixed
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munir — a sage
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brahma — Brahman
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na chireṇādhigachchhati — quickly goes
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na chireṇa — quickly
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adhigachchhati — goes
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Krishna said: Renunciation of actions and righteous action both lead to salvation. However, of the two, right actions are superior to renounced actions. One who is free from hatred and from all dualities is a person of renunciation, and is certainly freed from bondage. The ignorant proclaim the path of renunciation to be different from that of righteous action. The learned know that one who has become situated in even one of the two, achieves the result of both. That which is attained through spiritual wisdom is also attained by working with devotion. The wise see them both as the same. However, without right action, it is difficult to attain renunciation. The sage who is a master of righteous action quickly attains divine consciousness. One who unites with righteous action, acting with a pure intellect and control of the mind and senses seeing the same soul in all living beings, is capable of acting while remaining detached. Though the saint sees, hears, touches, smells, eats, moves, sleeps, and breathes, they know the truth and know that they are not the one who acts. Though they talk, give, receive, open their eyes, and shut them, they know the senses are merely operating on the objects of perception.
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