6. Meditation

Dhyān Yog

BG 6.1

Krishna said: One who acts out of duty, without depending on the fruit of their actions, is truly renounced and a knower of Yoga - not one who merely shuns all action.

श्री भगवानुवाच
अनाश्रितः कर्मफलं कार्यं कर्म करोति यः
स संन्यासी च योगी च न निरग्निर्न चाक्रियः


  • śhrī bhagavān — Krishna

  • uvācha — said

  • anāśhritaḥ — not desiring
    Anāśrita (अनाश्रित) is an adjective for "not connected with" or "independent of"

  • karma-phalaṁ — fruit of action
    Commonly referred to as "the fruit of one's labor"

    • karma — action

    • phalaṁ — fruit

  • kāryaṁ — obligatory

  • karma — work

  • karoti — perform

  • yaḥ — one who

  • sa — that person

  • sannyāsī — a renounced person

  • cha — also

  • yogī — yogi

  • cha — also

  • na — not

  • niragnir — without fire

  • na — not

  • chākriyaḥ — without activity

Krishna said: One who acts out of duty, without depending on the fruit of their actions, is truly renounced and a knower of Yoga - not one who merely shuns all action.

[1]

Yoga is what they call renunciation. One cannot become spiritually enlightened without renouncing all desire.

[2]

Practice is the only means of reaching the heights of spiritual meditation. When the sage has climbed these heights of Yoga, they maintain themselves there through tranquility and inaction.

[3]

When one renounces attachment to sense objects and to actions, they have abandoned all desires and attained the heights of Yoga.

[4]

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