1.

Arjuna:- Renunciation is praised by thee,

Krishna and then the Yoga of holy work. Of
these two, tell me in truth, which is higher
path?
2. Krishna:- Both renunciation and holy work are
a path to the Supreme; but better than
surrender of work is the Yoga of holy work.
3. Know that a man of true renunciation is he
who craves not nor hates; for he who is above
the two contraries soon finds his freedom.
4. Ignorant men, but not the wise, say that
Sankhya and Yoga are different paths; but he
who gives all his soul to one reaches the end
of the two.
5. Because the victory won by the man of
wisdom is also won by the man of good work.
That man sees indeed the truth who sees that
vision and creation are one.
6. But renunciation, Arjuna, is difficult to attain
without Yoga of work. When a sage is one in
Yoga he soon is one in God.
7. No work stains a man who is pure, who is in
harmony, who is master of his life, whose soul
is one with the soul of all.
8. ‘I am not doing any work; thinks the man who
is in harmony, who sees the truth.
9. For in seeing or hearing, smelling or touching,
in eating or walking, or sleeping, or breathing,
in talking or grasping or relaxing, and even in
opening or closing his eyes, he remembers: ‘It
is the servants of my soul that are working.’
10. Offer all thy works to God, throw off selfish
bonds, and do thy work. No sin can then stain
thee, even as waters do not stain the leaf of
the lotus.
11. The Yogi works for the purification of the soul:
he throws off selfish attachment, and thus it is
only his body or his senses or his mind or his
reason that works.
12. This man of harmony surrenders the reward of
his work and thus attains final peace; the man
of disharmony, urged by desire, is attached to
his reward and remains in bondage.
13. The ruler of his soul surrenders in mind all
work, and rests in the joy of quietness in the
castle of nine gates of his body: he neither
does selfish work nor causes others to do it.
14. The Lord of the world is beyond the works of
the world and their working, and beyond the
results of these works; but the work of Nature
rolls on.
15. The evil works or the good works of men are
not his work. Wisdom is darkened by
unwisdom, and this leads them astray.
16. But those whose unwisdom is made pure by
the wisdom of their inner Spirit, their wisdom
 is unto them a sum and in its radiance they
see the Supreme.
17. Their thoughts on Him and one with Him, they
abide in Him, and He is the end of their
journey. And they reach the land never-
returning, because their wisdom has made
them pure of sin.
18. With the same evenness of love they behold a
Brahmin who is learned and holy, or a cow, or
an elephant, or a dog, and even the man who
eats a dog.
19. Those whose minds are ever serene win the
victory of life on this earth. God is pure and
ever one, and ever one they are in God.
20. The man who sees Brahman abides in
Brahman: his reason is steady, gone is his
delusion. When pleasure comes he is not
shaken and when pain comes he trembles not.
21. He is not bound by things without, and within
he finds inner gladness. His soul is one in
Brahman and he attains everlasting joy.
22. For the pleasures that come from the world
bear in them sorrows to come. They come and
they go, they are transient: not in them do
the wise find joy.
23. But he who on this earth, before his
departure, can endure the storms of desire
and wrath, this man is a yogi, this man has
joy.
24. He has inner joy, he has inner gladness, and
he has found inner Light. This Yogi attains the
Nirvana of Brahman, he is one with God and
goes unto God.
25. Holy men reach the Nirvana of Brahman: their
sins are no more, their doubts are gone, their
soul is in harmony, their joy is in the good off
all.
26. Because the peace of God is with them whose
mind and soul are in harmony, who are free
from desire and wrath, who know their own
soul.
27. When the sage of silence, the Muni, closes the
doors of his soul and,
28. resting his inner gaze between the eyebrows,
keeps peaceful and even the ebbing and
flowing of breath: and with life and mind and
reason in harmony, and with desire and fear
and wrath gone, keeps silent his soul before
final freedom, he is in truth has attained final
freedom.
29. He knows me, the God of the worlds who
accepts the offerings of men the God who is
friend of all. He knows me and he attains
peace.
End of part five.