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GITĀ, TRANSLATION & COMMENTARY, CH. XVIII 1201
चेतसा सर्वकर्माणि मयि संन्यस्य मत्परः । बुद्धियोगमुपाश्रित्य मचित्तः सततं भव ॥ ५७ ॥
mean
Abandonment of Action'; but means 'Abandonment of the Hope of Fruit'; and (ii) maintained that Actions, such as giving up of food etc., whether they are kamya, nitya, or naimattika, must be performed like other Actions, without the Hope of Fruit. enthusiastically, and with an equable frame of mind: and thereafter, He has explained the doctrine laid down by the Gitā by saying that (i) although the various matters in the world, such as, karma, kartā, buddhi etc, may be diverse as a result of the difference of qualities, yet, the sattuka quality is the best of all; that (ii) in performing, unattachedly, all the Actions, which have befallen anybody on account of his ownstatus, according to the four-class-arrangement, one thereby sacrifices to, and performs the worship of, the Paramesvara and thereby gradually acquires the Parabrahman or Release; that (iii) no other practice nor Samnyasa in the form of Abandonment of Action is necessary for obtaining Release; and that (iv) by Karma-Yoga alone, all states of Perfection including Release are to be had. Now the Blessed Lord again and finally advises Arjuna to accept this path of Karma-Yoga-]
(57) 'samnyasya' (that is, having dedicated) all Actions to Me, mentally, and having become devoted to Me, keep your mind always fixed on Me, taking shelter in the Yoga of (equable) Reason.
[The word 'buddha-yoga' (Yoga of Reason) has appeared before already in Chapter II (2. 49); and there it has been interpreted to mean the device of performing Actions without allowing one's mind to be fixed on the Hope of Fruit', or, the equable Reason'. The same meaning is intended in this place; and this is only a repetition of the statement in Chapter II, that Reason is better than or superior to Action. Karma-samnyasa' is also defined here as meaning, mentally (that is, not by the actual Abandonment of Action, but merely by the Mind) dedicating all Actions to Me'; and the same idea has been.
