Chapter 2: Sānkhya Yoga – Yoga of Contemplation on Self: Verse 48
योगस्थ: कुरु कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा धनञ्जय ।
सिद्ध्यसिद्ध्यो: समो भूत्वा समत्वं योग उच्यते ॥
yoga-stha: kuru karmāṇi saṅgaṃ tyaktvā dhanañjaya
siddhy-asiddhyo: samo bhūtvā samatvaṃ yoga ucyate – 2.48
Do all your acts, but remaining established in yoga, leaving the usual delusional clinging. Preserve an even attitude to fruition and non-fruition of whatever you do. Such evenness is defined as yoga.
Chapter 2: Sānkhya Yoga – Yoga of Contemplation on Self - Verse 48
Ma Gurupriya
Do all your acts, but remaining established in yoga, leaving the usual delusional clinging. Preserve an even attitude to fruition and non-fruition of whatever you do. Such evenness is defined as yoga.
Do all your activities, but with yogic attitude and orientation, which are inner. The yoga part is not in the senses that act, but in the mind and the intelligence that activate them.
It consists in removing the delusional clinging to the fruition and non-fruition of actions. In fruition one becomes elated, and in non-fruition, depressed. This is the effect delusional clinging thrusts on the performer.
Krishna exhorts the seeker to cultivate even-mindedness in this regard. The seeker should learn to welcome and accept whatever result his action fetches. If the mind allows you to do this, there is no delusional clinging. If it does not, then clinging is strong.
Such steady evenness, instead of hindering your activity, will render it more effective. You become more efficient. Everything is done better, with ease and poise.
