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    "title": "Discourse 5: The Yoga of the Renunciation of Action",
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    "text": "## Discourse 5: The Yoga of the Renunciation of Action\n\n\nVerse 5:1: Arjuna said: Renunciation of actions Thou praisest, O Krishna, and then also \nyoga. Of the two which one is the better? That tell me conclusively. \n\nVerse 5:2: The Blessed Lord said: Renunciation and yoga by action both lead to the highest \nbliss; of the two, yoga by action is verily better than renunciation of action. \n\nVerse 5:3: He should be known as a perpetual ascetic, who neither hateth nor desireth; free \nfrom the pairs of opposites, O mighty-armed, he is easily set free from bondage. \n\nVerse 5:4: Children, not Sages, speak of the Sankhya and the Yoga as different; he who is \nduly established in one obtaineth the fruits of both. \n\nVerse 5:5: That place which is gained by the Sankhyas is reached by the Yogis also. He \nseeth, who seeth that the Sankhya and the Yoga are one. \n\nVerse 5:6: But without yoga, O mighty-armed, renunciation is hard to attain to; the yoga- \nharmonised Muni swiftly goeth to the ETERNAL. \n\nVerse 5:7: He who is harmonised by yoga, the self-purified, SELF-ruled, the senses \nsubdued, whose SELF is the SELF of all being, although acting he is not affected. \n\nVerses 5:8 & 5:9: \"I do not anything,” should think the harmonised one, who knoweth the \nessence of things seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating moving, sleeping, breathing. \nSpeaking, giving, grasping, opening and closing the eyes, he holdeth: \"The senses move \namong the objects of the senses.\" \n\nVerse 5:10: He who acteth, placing all actions in the ETERNAL, abandoning attachment, is \nunaffected by sin as a lotus leaf by the waters. \n\nVerse 5:11: Yogis, having abandoned attachment, perform action only by the body, by the \nmind, by the Reason, and even by the senses, for the purification of the self. \n\nVerse 5:12: The harmonised man, having abandoned the fruit of action, attaineth to the \neternal Peace; the non-harmonised, impelled by desire, attached to fruit, are bound. \n\nVerse 5:13: Mentally renouncing all actions, the sovereign dweller in the body resteth \nserenely in the nine-gated city, neither acting nor causing to act. \n\nVerse 5:14: The Lord of the world produceth not the idea of agency, nor actions, nor the \nunion together of action and its fruit; nature, however, manifesteth. \n\nVerse 5:15: The Lord accepteth neither the evil-doing nor yet the well-doing of any. \nWisdom is enveloped by unwisdom; therewith mortals are deluded. \n\nVerse 5:16: Verily, in whom unwisdom is destroyed by the wisdom of the SELF, in them \nwisdom, shining as the sun, reveals the Supreme. \n\nVerse 5:17: Thinking on THAT, merged in THAT, established in THAT, solely devoted to \nTHAT, they go whence there is no return, their sins dispelled by wisdom. \n\nVerse 5:18: Sages look equally on a Brahmana adorned with learning and humility, a cow, \nan elephant, and even a dog and an outcaste. \n\nVerse 5:19: Even here on earth everything is overcome by those whose mind remains \nbalanced; the ETERNAL is incorruptible and balanced; therefore they are established in the \nETERNAL. \n\nVerse 5:20: With Reason firm, unperplexed, the knower of the ETERNAL established in the \nETERNAL, neither rejoiceth on obtaining what is pleasant, nor sorroweth on obtaining what \nis unpleasant. \n\nVerse 5:21: He, whose self is unattached to external contacts and findeth joy in the SELF, \nhaving the self harmonised with the ETERNAL by yoga, enjoys imperishable bliss. \n\nVerse 5:22: The delights that are contact-born, they are verily wombs of pain, for they have \nbeginning and ending, O Kaunteya; not in them may rejoice the wise. \n\nVerse 5:23: He who is able to endure here on earth, ere he be liberated from the body, the \nforce born from desire and passion, he is harmonised, he is a happy man. \n\nVerse 5:24: He who is happy within, who rejoiceth within, who is illuminated within, that \nYogi, becoming the ETERNAL, goeth to the Peace of the ETERNAL. \n\nVerse 5:25: Rishis, their sins destroyed, their duality removed, their selves controlled, intent \nupon the welfare of all beings, obtain the Peace of the ETERNAL. \n\nVerse 5:26: The Peace of the ETERNAL lies near to those who know themselves, who are \ndisjoined from desire and passion, subdued in nature, of subdued thoughts. \n\nVerses 5:27 & 5:28: Having external contacts excluded, and with gaze fixed between the \neyebrows; having made equal the outgoing and ingoing breaths moving within the nostrils; \nWith senses, mind, and Reason ever controlled, solely pursuing liberation, the Sage, having \nfor ever cast away desire, fear and passion, verily is liberated. \n\nVerse 5:29: Having known Me, as the Enjoyer of sacrifice and of austerity, the mighty Ruler \nof all the worlds, and the Lover of all beings, he goeth to Peace.",
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