Samnyasa Yoga

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11. By the body, by the mind, by the intellect, by mere senses also, Yogins

perform action, without attachment, for the purification of the self.

 

12. The steady-minded one, abandoning the fruit of action, attains the peace

born of devotion. The unsteady one, attached to the fruit through the action of

desire, is firmly bound.

 

13. Renouncing all actions by thought and Self-controlled, the embodied one

rests happily in the nine-gated city, neither at all acting nor causing to act.

 

14. Neither agency nor objects does the Lord create for the world, nor union

with the fruits of actions. But it is the nature that acts.

 

15. The Lord takes neither the evil nor even the good deed of any; wisdom is

enveloped by un-wisdom; thereby mortals are deluded.

 

16. But to those whose un-wisdom is destroyed by wisdom of the Self, like the

sun wisdom illuminates that Supreme.

 

17. With their consciousness in That, their Self being That, intent on That,

with That for their supreme goal, they go never again to return, their sins

shaken off by means of wisdom.

 

18. In a Brahmana endued with wisdom and humility, in a cow, in an elephant, as

also in a dog and in a dog-eater, the wise see the same.

 

19. Even here birth is overcome by them whose mind rests on equality. Spotless,

indeed and equal is Brahman; wherefore in Brahman they rest.

 

20. He who knows Brahman can neither rejoice on obtaining the pleasant, nor

grieve on obtaining the unpleasant - steady-minded, un-deluded, resting in

Brahman.

 

to be continued...