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KARMA YOGA IN THE GITA
said “Renunciation and Yoga by action both lead to the highest bliss; of the two, Yoga by action is verily better than renunciation of action. A Nitya Sannyasin or perpetual ascetic is one who neither hates nor desires, one who is free from the pairs of opposites Children, not sages, speak of the Sankhya (Jnana Yoga) and Yoga (Karma Yoga) as different, he who is duly established in one obtaineth the fruits of both That abode which is gained by those practising Sankhya is reached by the Yogis also"
"He seeth who seeth that the Sankhya and Yoga are one But without Yoga, O mighty-armed, renunciation is hard to attain to, the Yoga-harmonised Muni swiftly goeth to the Eternal He who is harmonised by Yoga, the self-purified, self-ruled, with senses subdued, whose self is the self of all beings, although acting, he is not affected He who acteth, placing all actions in the Eternal, abandoning all kinds of attachment, is unaffected by sin as a lotus leaf by the drops of water Yogis, having abandoned all attachment, perform action by the body, by the mind, by the reason and even by the senses, only for the purification of the self."
“The harmonised man, having abandoned the fruits of action, attaineth to the eternal peace; the nonharmonised, impelled by desire, attached to fruit, is bound Mentally removing all actions, the sovereign dweller in the body resteth serenely in the nine-gated city, neither acting nor causing to act The Lord of the
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