Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 5: The Yoga of Renunciation

All 29 verses of Chapter 5 of the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit, with English translation, per-word meanings, and Adi Shankara's commentary.

• Verse 5.1 — Renunciation of actions, O Kṛṣṇa, Thou praisest, and again Yoga. Tell me conclusively…
• Verse 5.2 — Renunciation and Yoga through action both lead to the highest bliss; but, of the two…
• Verse 5.3 — He should be known as a perpetual renouncer who neither hates nor desires; for, free from…
• Verse 5.4 — Children, not the wise, speak of Sāṅkhya and Yoga as distinct. He who is rightly devoted…
• Verse 5.5 — That state which is reached by Sāṅkhyas is reached by Yogins also. He sees, who sees…
• Verse 5.6 — But renunciation, O mighty-armed, is hard to attain except by Yoga; a sage equipped with…
• Verse 5.7 — He who is equipped with Yoga, whose mind is quite pure, by whom the self has been…
• Verse 5.8 — 'I do nothing at all'; thus should the truth-knower think, steadfast — though seeing…
• Verse 5.9 — 'I do nothing at all'; thus should the truth-knower think, steadfast — though seeing…
• Verse 5.10 — He who does actions, offering them to Brahman, abandoning attachment, is not tainted by…
• Verse 5.11 — By the body, by the mind, by the intellect, by mere senses also, Yogins perform action…
• Verse 5.12 — The steady-minded one, abandoning the fruit of action, attains the peace born of…
• Verse 5.13 — Renouncing all actions by thought, and self-controlled, the embodied one rests happily in…
• Verse 5.14 — Neither agency nor objects does the Lord create for the world, nor union with the fruits…
• Verse 5.15 — The Lord takes neither the evil nor even the good deed of any; wisdom is enveloped by…
• Verse 5.16 — But to those whose unwisdom is destroyed by wisdom of the Self, like the sun wisdom…
• Verse 5.17 — With their consciousness in That, their Self being That, intent on That, with That for…
• Verse 5.18 — In a Brāhmaṇa endued with wisdom and humility, in a cow, in an elephant, as also in a dog…
• Verse 5.19 — Even here birth is overcome by them whose mind rests on equality. Spotless, indeed, and…
• Verse 5.20 — He who knows Brahman can neither rejoice on obtaining the pleasant, nor grieve on…
• Verse 5.21 — With the self unattached to external contacts, he finds the joy which is in the Self…
• Verse 5.22 — For, those delights which are born of contacts are only generators of pain, having a…
• Verse 5.23 — He that is able, while still here, to withstand, before liberation from the body, the…
• Verse 5.24 — Whoso has his joy within and his pastime within, and whoso has his light within only…
• Verse 5.25 — The sages attain Brahman's bliss — they whose sins have been destroyed and doubts…
• Verse 5.26 — To the devotees who are free from desire and anger, who have controlled their thought…
• Verse 5.27 — Shutting out all external contacts and fixing the sight between the eye-brows, equalising…
• Verse 5.28 — Shutting out all external contacts and fixing the sight between the eye-brows, equalising…
• Verse 5.29 — On knowing Me — the Lord of all sacrifices and austerities, the Great Lord of all worlds…