Chapter 2 · Knowledge of the Self
Bhagavad Gita 2.50
Yoga is skill in action.
Shri Bhagavan
बुद्धियुक्तो जहातीह उभे सुकृतदुष्कृते ।
तस्माद्योगाय युज्यस्व योगः कर्मसु कौशलम् ॥
buddhiyukto jahātīha ubhe sukṛtaduṣkṛte / tasmādyogāya yujyasva yogaḥ karmasu kauśalam
One joined to this understanding leaves behind both good deeds and bad, here in this life. So take up yoga. Yoga is skill in action.
हिंदी · इस बुद्धि से युक्त पुरुष इसी जीवन में पुण्य और पाप दोनों को छोड़ देता है। इसलिए योग में लगो। कर्मों में कुशलता ही योग है।
What it means
Yoga is skill in action.
One whose mind is steady is freed, even here, from both good and bad results. So devote yourself to yoga: the real skill in work is to do it without being bound by it.
This is the Trust’s own reading, written for this site. The verse above it is the text.
Verses that share its vocabulary
Near it in the text’s own words.
- 2.39This understanding I have given you is that of Sankhya. Now hear it as yoga. Partha, with this understanding you will cast off the bondage of action.
- 2.49Dhananjaya, action done for its reward is far inferior to action done with this understanding. Take refuge in understanding. Those who work for the fruit are to be pitied.
- 18.57With your mind surrender every action to Me, holding Me as the highest; taking refuge in the yoga of understanding, keep your thought fixed on Me at all times.
- 2.53When your understanding, no longer pulled about by what you have heard, stands unmoving and steady in itself, then you will have reached yoga.
- 6.43There he recovers the understanding he had gathered in his earlier body, and from that point, Kurunandana, he works towards completion once again.
- 10.10To those who stay constantly joined to me and worship me with love, I give that yoga of understanding by which they come to me.
Chosen by shared uncommon vocabulary, weighted so that a rare word counts for far more than a common one. A reading aid, not a claim that these verses mean the same thing.