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05 - Of Religion by Renouncing Fruit of Works - Bhagavad Gita · Sacred Texts Archive

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  Chapter five the Book of Religion, by renouncing fruit of works Arju. Now,
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  yet Krishna, at the one time thou dost Lord, surcease of works,
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  and at another time service through work. Of these twain plainly tell which
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  is the better way, Krishna. To cease from works is well, and
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  to do works in holiness is well, and both conduct to bliss supreme.
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  But of these twain, the better way is his, who working piously refraineth
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  not. That is the true renouncer, firm and fixed, who seeking nought
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  rejecteth nought, dwells proof against the opposites, that is joy and sorrow,
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  success and failure, heat and cold, etc. Oh, valiant Prince,
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  in doing such breaks lightly from all deed. Tis the new scholar talks as
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  they were two, this Sankia and this yoga. Wise men know who husband's
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  one plucks golden fruit of both the region of high rest which Sanchian's reach yogins
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  attain. Who sees these twain as one sees with clear eyes. Yet such
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  abstraction chief is hard to win without much holiness. Who is fixed in holiness,
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  self ruled, pure hearted, lord of senses and of self lost in
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  the common life of all which lives a yoga yucht. He is a saint
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  who wends straightway to Brahm. Such an one is not touched by taint of
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  deeds, nought of myself. I do. Thus will he think who holds
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  the truth of truths in beeing, hearing, touching, smelling, when he
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  eats or goes, or breathes, slumbers or talks, holds fast or loosens,
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  opens his eyes or shuts, always assured. This is the sense world
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  plays with senses. He that acts in thought of Brahm, detaching end from
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  act with act content the world of sense can no more stain his soul than
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  waters mar the enameled lotus leaf with life, with heart, with mind,
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  nay, with the help of all five senses. Letting selfhard go Jogan's toil,
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  ever towards their soul's release. Such votaries renouncing fruit of deeds, gain
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  endless peace. The unvowed, the passion bound seeking a fruit from works,
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  are fastened down. The embodied sage with drawn within his soul at every act
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  sits godlike in the town which hath nine gateways, I either body, neither
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  doing aught nor causing any deed. This world's lord makes neither the work,
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  nor passion for the work, nor lust for fruit of work. The man's
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  own self pushes to these. The master of this world takes on himself the
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  good or evil deeds of no man. Dwelling beyond mankind heirs here by folly
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  darkening knowledge, but for whom that darkness of the soul is chased by light,
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  splendid and clear shines manifest the truth, as if a sun of wisdom
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  sprang to shed its beams of dawn, Him meditating, still him seeking with
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  him, blended, stayed on him. The souls illuminated take that road which
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  hath no turning back, their sins flung off by strength of faith. Who
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  will may have this light? Who hath it? Sees to him who wisely
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  sees the Brahman with his scrolls and sanctities, The cow, the elephant,
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  the unclean dog, the outcast gorging dog's meat, are all one. The
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  world is overcome. I even hear by such as fix their faith on unity.
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  The sinless Brama dwells in unity. And they in brama be not over
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  glad attaining joy, and be not oversad encountering grief, but stayed on Brama
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  still constant. Let each abide. The sage, whose soul holds off from
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  outer contacts in himself, finds bliss to Brama. Joined by piety, his
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  spirit takes eternal peace. The joys springing from sense life are but quickening wombs
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  which breed sure griefs. Those joys begin and end. The wise mind takes
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  no pleasure Kunti's son in such as those. But if a man shall learn,
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  even while he lives and bears his body's chain, to master lust and
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  anger, he is blessed. He is the Yuctar. He hath happiness,
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  contentment, light within his life is merged in Brahma's life. He doth Nirvana
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  touch. Thus go The rishis unto rest, who dwell with sins, effaced
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  with doubts, at end, with hearts governed and calm, glad in all
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  good. They live nigh to the peace of God. And all those live
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  who pass their days exempt from greed and wrath, subduing self and senses,
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  knowing the soul. The saint who shuts outside his placid soul all touch of
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  sense, letting no contact through, whose quiet eyes gaze straight from fixed brows,
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  whose outward breath and inward breath are drawn equal and slow through nostrils,
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  still and close. That one with organ's heart and mind constrained, bent on
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  deliverance, having put away passion and fear and rage, hath even now obtained
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  deliverance, ever and ever freed YEA, for he knows me. Who am
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  he that heeds the sacrifice and worship God revealed, And he who heeds not,
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  being Lord of worlds, lover of all that lives, God unreveal'd.
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  Wherein who will shall find surety and shield? Here ends Chapter five of the Bagavad Geeta