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Bhagavad Gita Bhasya (Gambhirananada)

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2.48 By being established in Yoga, O Dhananjaya<br />

(Arjuna), undertake actions, casting off attachment<br />

and remaining equipoised in success and failure.<br />

Equanimity is called Yoga.<br />

English Translation of Sri Sankaracharya's Sanskrit<br />

Commentary - Swami Gambhirananda<br />

2.48 If action is not to be undertaken by one who is<br />

under the impulsion of the fruits of action, how<br />

then are they to be undertaken? This is being<br />

stated: Yogasthah, by becoming established in<br />

Yoga; O Dhanajaya, kuru, undertake; karmani,<br />

actions, for the sake of God alone; even there,<br />

tyaktva, casting off; sangam, attachment, in the<br />

form, 'God will be pleased with me.' ['Undertake<br />

work for pleasing God, but not for propitiating<br />

Him to become favourable towards yourself.']<br />

Undertake actions bhutva, remaining; samah,<br />

equipoised; siddhi-asidhyoh, in success and failure<br />

-- even in the success characterized by the<br />

attainment of Knowledge that arises from the<br />

purification of the mind when one performs<br />

actions without hankering for the results, and in<br />

the failure that arises from its opposite. [Ignorance,<br />

arising from the impurity of the mind.] What is<br />

that Yoga with regard to being established in<br />

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