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यं संन्यासमिति प्राहुर्योगं तं विद्धि पाण्डव। न ह्यसंन्यस्तसङ्कल्पो योगी भवति कश्चन।।6.2।।

yaṁ sannyāsam iti prāhur yogaṁ taṁ viddhi pāṇḍava na hyasannyasta-saṅkalpo yogī bhavati kaśhchana

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 6, Verse 2
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
Do you, O Arjuna, know that Yoga is what they call renunciation; no one indeed becomes a Yogi who has not renounced their thoughts.

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Why: what is called renunciation is the same as yoga, since no one becomes a yogi without renouncing personal will and desire, again equating two terms people often treat as opposites.

In life: real discipline and real letting go usually turn out to be the same skill wearing different clothes, not opposing strategies.

Teaching: stop treating discipline and surrender as contradictory approaches to a problem, look for how practicing one is actually building the other.

yamwhat
sanyāsamrenunciation
itithus
prāhuḥthey say
yogamyog
tamthat
viddhiknow
pāṇḍavaArjun, the son of Pandu
nanot
hicertainly
asannyastawithout giving up
saṅkalpaḥdesire
yogīa yogi
bhavatibecomes
kaśhchanaanyone

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
6.2 यम् which? संन्यासम् renunciation? इति thus? प्राहुः (they) call? योगम् Yoga? तम् that? विद्धि know? पाण्डव O Pandava? न not? हि verily? असंन्यस्तसङ्कल्पः one who has not renounced thoughts? योगी Yogi? भवति becomes? कश्चन anyone.Commentary Sankalpa is the working of the imagining faculty of the mind that makes plans for the future and guesses the results of plans so formed. No one can become a Karma Yogi who plans and schemes and expects fruits for his actions. No devotee of action who has not renounced the thought of the fruits of his actions can become a Yogi of steady mind. The thought of the fruits will certainly make the mind unsteady.Lord Krishna eulogises Karma Yoga here because it is the means or an external aid (Bahiranga Sadhana) to Dhyana Yoga. Karma Yoga is a steppingstone to Dhyana Yoga. It leads to the Yoga of Meditation in due course. In order to encourage the practice of Karna Yoga it is stated here that Karma Yoga is Sannyasa. (Cf.V.4)