Chapter 5: Karma Sannyāsa Yoga – Yoga of Inner Renunciation: Verse 6
सन्न्यासस्तु महाबाहो दु:खमाप्तुमयोगत: ।
योगयुक्तो मुनिर्ब्रह्म नचिरेणाधिगच्छति ॥
sannyāsas-tu mahābāho du:kham-āptum-ayogata:
yoga-yukto munir-brahma nacireṇādhigacchati – 5.6
The path of sannyāsa is very difficult to attain without the strength and support of yoga. The saint integrated by yoga-sādhanā, attains Brahman (the supreme Reality) before long.
Chapter 5: Karma Sannyāsa Yoga – Yoga of Inner Renunciation - Verse 6
Ma Gurupriya
Krishna reinforces what he has already said by adding that the path of exclusive renunciation is hard to achieve without the sublimation and enrichment yoga sādhanā provides. One taking to sannyāsa will have to abandon all secular activities, which are adverse to that path.
Active life cannot really be relinquished, as it is instituted and preserved by Nature through its guṇas, namely sattva, rajas and tamas. As long as Nature is unrelenting, where is the question of leaving activities or not taking them up?
Let not the seeker strive for anything disharmonious and fruitless. Let him accept active life as the first step and gain maturity. Let desires, possessiveness, etc. of the mind decline, leading to greater purity, making him ripe enough to take up the exclusive wisdom path. Thus the conflict dissolves. Karma-yoga will act as a complement to Jñāna-yoga, both together bringing the desired fruition.
