Chapter 2. Contents of the Gita
Summarized
TEXT 48
yoga-sthah kuru karmani
sangam tyaktva dhananjaya
siddhy-asiddhyoh samo bhutva
samatvam yoga ucyate
SYNONYMS
yoga-sthah--steadfast in yoga; kuru--perform; karmani--your duties;sangam--attachment; tyaktva--having abandoned; dhananjaya--O Dhananjaya; siddhi-asiddhyoh--success and failure; samah--the same;bhutva--having
become; samatvam--evenness of mind; yogah--yoga;ucyate--is called.
TRANSLATION
Be
steadfast in yoga, O Arjuna. Perform your duty and abandon all attachment to
success or failure. Such evenness of mind is called yoga.
PURPORT
Krsna
tells Arjuna that he should act in yoga. And what is that yoga?Yoga means to concentrate the mind
upon the Supreme by controlling the ever-disturbing senses. And who is the
Supreme? The Supreme is the Lord. And because He Himself is telling Arjuna to
fight, Arjuna has nothing to do with the results of the fight. Gain or victory
are Krsna's concern; Arjuna is simply advised to act according to the dictation
of Krsna. The following of Krsna's dictation is real yoga, and this is practiced in the
process called Krsna consciousness. By Krsna consciousness only can one give up
the sense of proprietorship. One has to become the servant of Krsna, or the
servant of the servant of Krsna. That is the right way to discharge duty in
Krsna consciousness, which alone can help one to act inyoga.
Arjuna
is a ksatriya, and as such he is participating
in thevarnasrama-dharma institution.
It is said in the Visnu
Purana that in
thevarnasrama-dharma, the
whole aim is to satisfy Visnu. No one should satisfy himself, as is the rule in
the material world, but one should satisfy Krsna. So, unless one satisfies
Krsna, one cannot correctly observe the principles of varnasrama-dharma. Indirectly, Arjuna was advised
to act as Krsna told him.
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