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\n\t\tCHAPTER FIVE<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\n\t\turjoona<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThou declarest the
\nrenunciation of works, O Krishna, and again thou declares! Yoga in works. Which
\none alone of these twain is the better, this tell me clearly, leaving no doubt
\nbehind.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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krishna<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cRenunciation of works, or
\nYoga in works, both of them make for the soul\u2019s highest welfare, but of these
\ntwo Yoga in works is distinguished above renunciation of works. Know him for
\nthe perpetual Sannyasin, who neither hates nor desires aught, for the mind that
\nrises above the dualities, O strong-armed, is easily and happily released from
\nits bondage. It is children who talk of Sankhya and Yoga as distinct and
\ndifferent, and not the learned; he who cleaveth wholly to even one of these
\nfindeth the fruit of both. To the high heaven whereto the Sankhyas win, the men
\nof Yoga go also, and he who seeth Sankhya and Yoga as one seeth indeed. But
\nrenun\u00adciation, without Yoga, O great of arm, is very difficult to arrive at;
\nand the sage that hath Yoga travelleth quickly to God. When a man hath Yoga,
\nthe Self of him is purified from obscuration, he is master of the Self and vic\u00adtor
\nover the senses; he whose Self has become one with the self of all created
\nthings, though he do works, can receive no defilement. The Yogin sees the
\nreality of things and thinks, \u201cTruly I do nothing at all\u201d; yea, when he sees or
\nhears or touches, when he smells and when he tastes, in his going and in his
\nsleeping and in his breathing, whether he talk, whether he put out or take in,
\nwhether he close his eyes or open them, still he holds, \u201cLo, \u2018tis but the
\nsenses that move in the fields of the senses.\u201d When a man doeth, reposing all
\nhis works on the Eternal and abandoning attachment, sin cannot stay in his soul
\neven as water on the leaf of a lotus. With their body, mind and understanding
\nself and with pure and unaffected senses the Yogins, relinquishing attachment,
\ndo works for the cleansing of the Self. The soul that has Yoga abandons the
\nfruit of its works, and gains instead a confident and utter peace; but the soul
\nthat has not Yoga clings to the fruit of its works, and by the working of
\ndesire it falleth into bondage. When a man is master of his self, and has
\nrenounced all works in his heart, then the embodied spirit sitteth at ease in
\nhis nine-gated city, neither doing nor causing to be done. The Lord createth
\nnot works nor the author\u00adship of works for His people, neither yoketh He them
\nto the fruits of their works; \u2018tis the nature in a man that is busy and taketh
\nits own course.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n The Lord taketh to himself
\nthe sin of none, neither accepteth He the righteousness of any;<\/i> but the
\nwisdom of living beings is clouded over with Nescience and \u2018tis by this that
\nthese are bewildered. Of those who by Know\u00adledge have destroyed the nescience
\nof the Self, Wisdom riseth like the sun and lighteth up that Self of all. Then
\nthey perceive Him alone and are Self of Him, and to Him consecrated in faith
\nand all for Him; the revolving wheel clutches them not any more because Wisdom
\nhas washed them pure of all stain. The Brahmin endowed with learning and modest
\nculture, the cow, the elephant and the very dog and the Pariah none touches,
\nall these the wise regard with equal eyes. Even in their human life they have
\ncon\u00adquered this creation whose minds have taken root in that divine Equality,
\nfor the Eternal also is without a defect and looketh on all his creatures with
\nequal eyes; therefore in the Eternal they have their root. He is not over\u00adjoyed
\nwhen he getteth what is of pleasant growth, nor is he troubled when he tasteth
\nof bitterness; his reason is steadfast and he subjects not himself to delusion
\nbut knoweth the Eternal and in him abideth. His soul clings not to the touches
\nof outward things but what happiness he finds in the Self; therefore his soul
\nis made one in Yoga with Eternal Brahman, the happiness he tastes does not
\ncease or perish. For the enjoyments that are born of touch and contact are very
\nwombs of misery, they begin and they end; the wise man taketh no delight in
\nthese. For he who even on this earth and before his release from this mortal
\nbody hath strength to stand up in the speed and rush of wrath and lust, he is
\nthe happy man. That man is the Yogin whose bliss is within and his delight and
\nease are inward; him an inner light illumines, and he goeth to cessation in the
\nBrahman for he becometh Brahman. Rishis from whom all stain and darkness have
\nfaded away, who have cut Doubt away from their hearts and are masters of Self,
\nwhose whole delight and work is to do good to all created things \u2014 these win to
\ncessation in the Eternal. The strivers after perfection, the governed souls who
\nare delivered from the grip of wrath and desire, lo, the Paradise of cessation
\nin Brahman liveth all about them, for they have know\u00adledge of the Self within.
\nKeeping the touches of outward things from his soul and concentrating sight
\nbetween his eyebrows, making equal the outbreath and the inbreath as they move
\nwithin the nostrils, master of his senses and mind and reason, who utterly
\ndesireth salvation, desire and wrath and fear have departed from him for ever;
\nverily, he is already a released and delivered soul. He knows me for the One
\nthat feasteth on man\u2019s sacrifice and his austerities, the mighty Lord of all
\nthe worlds and the heart\u2019s friend of all creatures, and knowing, he travelleth
\nto the Peace,\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

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