Chapter 2 Overview
Verse 2.48
योगस्थः कुरु कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा धनञ्जय। सिद्ध्यसिद्ध्योः समो भूत्वा समत्वं योग उच्यते।।2.48।।
yoga-sthaḥ kuru karmāṇi saṅgaṁ tyaktvā dhanañjaya siddhy-asiddhyoḥ samo bhūtvā samatvaṁ yoga uchyate
Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 2, Verse 48
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Sanskrit to English Translation
Translator:
Perform action, O Arjuna, being steadfast in Yoga, abandoning attachment and balanced in success and failure; evenness of mind is called Yoga.
A Reading - Rantideb
Why: defining yoga as evenness of mind toward success and failure reveals that Arjuna's crisis was never really about violence, it was about his death grip on one particular outcome.
In life: what looks like fear of doing something hard is often just fear of a specific result.
Teaching: separate the action you're avoiding from the outcome you're actually afraid of. Often the action itself is fine, and the fear is one narrow fear of failure.
yoga-sthaḥbeing steadfast in yog
kuruperform
karmāṇiduties
saṅgamattachment
tyaktvāhaving abandoned
dhanañjayaArjun
siddhi-asiddhyoḥin success and failure
samaḥequipoised
bhūtvābecoming
samatvamequanimity
yogaḥYog
uchyateis called
Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)
Author:
2.48 योगस्थः steadfast in Yoga? कुरु perform? कर्माणि actions? सङ्गम् attachment? त्यक्त्वा having abandoned? धनञ्जय O Dhananjaya? सिद्ध्यसिद्ध्योः in success and failure? समः the smae? भूत्वा having become? समत्वम् evenness of mind? योगः Yoga? उच्यते is called.Commentary Dwelling in union with the Divine perform actions merely for Gods sake with a balanced mind in success and failure. Eilibrium is Yoga. The attainment of the knowledge of the Self through purity of heart obtained by doing actions without expectation of fruits is success (Siddhi). Failure is the nonattainment of knowledge by doing actions with expectation of fruit. (Cf.III.9IV.14IV.20).