Bhagavad Gita 5.5

Bhagavad Gita 5.5

Bhagavad Gita 5.5: Verse 5

यत्सांख्यैः प्राप्यते स्थानं तद्योगैरपि गम्यते।
एकं सांख्यं च योगं च यः पश्यति स पश्यति।।5.5।।

भावार्थ - Gist

ज्ञान योगियों द्वारा जो परमधाम प्राप्त किया जाता है, कर्मयोगियों द्वारा भी वही प्राप्त किया जाता है। इसलिए जो पुरुष ज्ञानयोग और कर्मयोग को फलरूप में एक देखता है, वही यथार्थ देखता है॥5.5॥

The truth that can be learnt from Sakhyayoga can also be attained through Karmayoga. Hence he who sees Sankhyayoga and Karmayoga as one (from the angle of results) sees correctly.

व्याख्या - Explanation

(1) सांख्ययोगी और कर्मयोगी दोनों का ही अन्त में कर्मों से अर्थात् क्रियाशील प्रकृति से सम्बन्ध विच्छेद होता है। तभी तो दोनों योग को एक ही कहा है।
(2) पाने की इच्छा उसमें होती है, जिसमें अभाव होता है। स्वरूप में अभाव हो नहीं सकता, इसलिये पाने की इच्छा हो नहीं सकती। पाने की इच्छा न होने से उसमें कभी करने का राग उत्पन्न नहीं होता। किन्तु जीव जब अपने को अभावग्रस्त शरीर मान लेता है, तब उसमें अभाव प्रतीत होने लगता है, जिससे उसमें पाने की इच्छा उत्पन्न होती है, जिससे करने का राग उत्पन्न हो जाता है। पाने की इच्छा और करने का राग-ये दोनों कर्मयोग से मिट जाते हैं।

  1. Both Karmayoga and Sankhyayoga culminate in non-attachment from actions and from ever-active nature. That’s why both systems are referred to as one and the same.
  2. On the culmination of any spiritual practice desire for living, fear of death, greed of acquiring and attachment for work get completely destroyed. The spirit should have no fear of the death of the body which is anyway dying, whereas within the eternal living entity there should be no desire for living. Then who has the desire for living and fear of death? When the living being establishes a relationship with the body, then it beset with the desire for living and the fear of death.
  3. Only he who feels a lack of things would have a desire of getting. Since the living entity needs nothing from the world, he could have no desire for obtaining material objects. Not having any such desire, he could not have an attachment for activities by which those objects might be acquired. But when he assumes himself to be one with body, lacking/wanting so many things, he also begins to feel the lack/need of worldly objects, joys, wealth etc. As a consequence he develops desire for acquisitions, which kindles his attachment for action. Karmayoga destroys both— desire for acquisition and attachment for action.