Chapter 2: Sānkhya Yoga – Yoga of Contemplation on Self: Verse 49
दूरेण ह्यवरं कर्म बुद्धियोगाद्धनञ्जय ।
बुद्धौ शरणमन्विच्छ कृपणा: फलहेतव: ॥
dūreṇa hy-avaraṃ karma buddhi-yogād-dhanañjaya
buddhau śaraṇam-anviccha kṛpaṇā: phala-hetava: – 2.49
O Dhananjaya (Arjuna), the usual course of activity, which fixes your attention on the fleeting external results alone, is far inferior to buddhi-yoga, wherein the intelligence preserves evenness. Seek refuge under yoga-buddhi. Those clinging only to objective results are miserly. (They lose the benefit of inner enrichment and lasting fulfilment.)
Chapter 2: Sānkhya Yoga – Yoga of Contemplation on Self - Verse 49
Ma Gurupriya
Arjuna first sought refuge under Krishna, admitting his own weakness and delusion, and seeking to be led to the supreme good and felicity.
Krishna responds to this. Pointing impropriety in Arjuna’s grief and the need for equal vision, Krishna revealed the Self, the core of human personality. He lifts Arjuna from kārpaṇya-doṣa (narrow-mindedness) to clarity and expanse.
In Sānkhya as well as Karma-yoga, samatva (evenness) is the core content. By applying the intelligence alone (buddhi-yoga), samatva can be gained. Thus buddhi-yoga alone counts in true spiritual practice. Consequently all rituals and allied practices become far inferior, as a means to gain the spiritual goal.
