Chapter 2 Overview
Verse 2.50
बुद्धियुक्तो जहातीह उभे सुकृतदुष्कृते। तस्माद्योगाय युज्यस्व योगः कर्मसु कौशलम्।।2.50।।
buddhi-yukto jahātīha ubhe sukṛita-duṣhkṛite tasmād yogāya yujyasva yogaḥ karmasu kauśhalam
Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 2, Verse 50
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Sanskrit to English Translation
Translator:
Endowed with wisdom and evenness of mind, one casts off in this life both good and evil deeds; therefore, devote yourself to Yoga; Yoga is skill in action.
A Reading - Rantideb
Why: 'yoga is skill in action' is a plain, workmanlike definition placed right after sweeping claims about the eternal Self.
In life: spiritual or philosophical insight is only as useful as what it changes about how you actually do things.
Teaching: judge any insight, including this one, by whether it improves how you act day to day, not by how profound it sounds.
buddhi-yuktaḥendowed with wisdom
jahātiget rid of
ihain this life
ubheboth
sukṛita-duṣhkṛitegood and bad deeds
tasmāttherefore
yogāyafor Yog
yujyasvastrive for
yogaḥyog is
karmasu kauśhalamthe art of working skillfully
Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)
Author:
2.50 बुद्धियुक्तः endowed with wisdom? जहाति casts off? इह in this life? उभे both? सुकृतदुष्कृते good and evil deeds? तस्मात् therefore? योगाय to Yoga? युज्यस्व devote thyself? योगः Yoga? कर्मसु in actions? कौशलम् skill.Commentary Work performed with motive towards fruits only can bind a man. It will bring the fruits and the performer of the action will have to take birth again in this mortal world to enjoy them. If work is performed with evennes of mind (the Yoga of wisdom? i.e.? united to pure Buddhi? intelligence or reason) with the mind resting in the Lord? it will not bind him it will not bring any fruit it is no work at all. Actions which are of a binding nature lose that nature when performed with eanimity of mind? or poised reason. The Yogi of poised reason attributes all actions to the Divine Actor within (Isvara or God).