Karma Sanyasa or Vairagya Yoga CHAPTER 5 Flowcharts

Karma Sanyasa or Vairagya Yoga
CHAPTER 5 (29 Slokas) FLOWCHARTS
Compiled by
Dr. Medicherla Shyam Sunder Kumar
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OM TAT SAT
Based on teachings of
1-Bhagvad gita Study by Bhakti Caitanya Swami
2-Bhagvad_Gita_Notes_Complete_Gauranga_priyarabhu
2-Gita Makarandam by Vidya Prakashananda Giri
3-Other references are listed at the bottom of the each slide.
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The first six chapters are a cycle
Dejection is the experience of your bondage,
not knowing that is what you are experiencing.
It is when the being comes forward and
the outer personality doesn't know what is happening.
Let's talk about the outer personality.
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5 principles
You have to periodically renounce and you have to get back in touch with who you are
through knowledge. This is the means by which the soul continues to disassociate from
its habit of identification with matter.
All of these are necessary even after you have become grounded in who you are,
because when you reenter into matter the world tries to coat you again.
dejection, Chapter 1
discrimination, Chapter 2
action, Chapter 3
knowledge Chapter 4
renunciation Chapter 5
are the preparatory process which we will cycle through forever
http://www.satshree.org/teachings/gita-study/gita-study-transcriptions/ 1.2
95% of seekers are in this process of becoming stable in the self. Of that 95% there is
probably another 20% that have glimpses of the next stages; they come and they go
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RAGA
ATTCHMENT
SHOKA or
VISHADA or
SORROW
MOHA
DELUSION
A VICIOUS CYCLE
Once vision is clouded; actions
will be wrong and because of
that the situation will be worse
and again because he will be
worried and will take wrong
decisions
A person never gets out of dependence. He
will be shuffling the dependence from one
object to other. Instead of working for
freedom, he will be only changing from one
dependence to other
This cycle of shuffling the diseases and
going form suffering to suffering is the
human problem, which is known as
SAMSARA
A PERSON
THE
HUMAN DISEASE
A PLACE
AN OBJECT
p 50 Swami Paramathananda’s Bhagavad Gita Lectures in Chennai
BONDAGE
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Gita - “who you are”“Tvam” (Soul). in the first six chapters
3-The third chapter takes up Karma-Yoga which deals with duties of
all of us towards our “Tvam” (Soul). Indirectly, they are duties of our
universe and our society.
4-In the fourth chapter, he takes up Jnana-Yoga. By performing right
action how one could get real knowledge and by real knowledge how
one should act, is taken up in this chapter.
1-The first chapter is an introduction to the discourse.
It brings out the state of distress in Arjuna
When one performs
nishkäma karma yoga
on the level of
knowledge of the soul
only, then he tends to
remain impersonal,
6-The sixth chapter is Dhyana-Yoga which gives a detailed
description of how to meditate and realise the “REAL YOU”
inside the “FALSE YOU”.
5-The fifth chapter is Karmasamnyasa-Yoga wherein he talks about
renunciation of fruits of action which will help us to realise
the Atman in us and I am not the doer
there is a higher controller,as seen in the fifth chapter,
then he develops a consciousness of the Supersoul
2 -Chapter a detailed description of the “Real Arjuna”, the Atman (Tvam) and ends up in a
wonderful description of a Sthitaprajna (man of steady wisdom). to do Karma-Yoga,
Jnana-Yoga etc.,
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
http://gitaglobal.com/bhagavad-gita-tat-tvam-asi-2/
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Our dependences or expectations are for three things alone:
CH 1-6 CH 7-12 CH 13-18
The first six chapters is the
movement of ego to the Self;
WITH EFFORT
the second six chapters is the
movement of the Self to God;
BY GRACE
the third six chapters is the
movement from God to
Truth and Truth to
manifestation.
the effort part.
KARMA YOGA
This is where we break down our
identification with our separate
egoic existence and shift in our
identification to that which lives
us, to the being. This is an
individual realization. It is a
realization of the individual Self.
BHAKTI YOGA JNANA YOGA
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How this Discourse is connected with the previous one ?
Arjuna feels confused and doubtful about the right course of conduct
for him. So he asks the Lord to tell him decisively which is superior-Sankya
or Karma. The Discourse begins with Arjuna's question.
In the Third and Fourth Discourses, both Nishkama Karma and Jnana are
alternately emphasised
Gita Makarandam
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So virāga or vairāgya is being “apart from emotional coloration.” It is seeing
the world as it is, not as our emotions make it appear to us. We are back to
good old tattvatah, the way things really are. If we make a continued
effort to see things as they are, not as our emotions color them, we
can learn to control our mind. That is what Krishna tells Arjuna.
http://www.theosophical.org/files/resources/selfstudy/Gita.pdf
“ VAIRAGYA"
" VI “
is “apart from.”
" RAGA "
“COLOR,”
+
"SAM “
comes from a root
meaning
“join together.”
And colors are always associated with emotions.
We are in the pink when we are happy and
see red when angry.
We are in a blue mood when sad, or
a black mood when despairing, or
a gray mood when depressed.
We are in a brown study when distracted.
We are green with envy or yellow when cowardly,
or purple with rage.
Clairvoyants tell us that when we are overpowered by an emotion, our auras are
flushed with a color corresponding to that emotion.
So then we perceive and respond to the world through that emotional coloration.
Then we are not seeing the world as it is, but as we have colored it with our
emotion.
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His only option is to
follow the ATMA
He needs constant
reminder to stay tuned
to ATMA.
(SATTVIC)
The message of GITA
The man is the conglomerate of BODY( Including senses) + Mind + ATMA (SOUL)
MAN
He will descend to the
level of an ANIMAL
(TAMASIC)
IF HE FOLLOWS ONLY THE
BODY
He is in danger of
being transformed in
to a DEMON
(RAJASIC)
BODY + MIND
ATMA
DEHATMA BUDDHI DAIVATMA BUDDHI
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CH 17
ASURA SAMPATTI
CH 17
DAIVA SAMPATTI

This wider concept of karmayoga includes
1-Right action,Karmanusthana or performance of prescribed duties.
2.Right knowledge Jnana or acquiring
3-Right motivation(Attitude), and
4-Right goal.
5-Tyaga offering the fruits+
6-LOKA SANGRAHA -
for the welfare of the masses-Yagna spirit
Such a concept of Karmayoga does not clash either with jnana or with sanyasa.
https://sites.google.com/site/harshalas/essentials-of-gitabhashaya-and-gitatatparya
4. Tyaga or
offering the
fruits of one’s
activities at the
feet of God i.e.
Bhagavata
phalasamarpana
.
karmayoga has four aspects
3. Sanyasa or
motiveless ness
( I AM NOT THE DOER) in
one’s undertakings i.e.
sankalpa sanyasa, and
eschewing
raga, dvesa etc.
wrong emotions
2. Jnana or
acquiring
right knowledge
though
sravana,
manana etc.
1.
Karmanusthana
or performance
of prescribed
duties.
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Swami Alavandar says that the Fifth Chapter tells us four aspects of
Karma yoga:
Though the easiness of Karma yoga was told in the Third Chapter,
it is the quickness with which the result is
obtained is emphasized in this Chapter.
This is in addition to the advantages of Karma yoga detailed in the Third
chapter, viz: it is habitual right from birth, it is required even by a Gyana yogi
and can not slip.
1-Karma yoga is easy to practice
2-Karma yoga yields result quickly
3-Karma yoga should be performed without the feeling that
it was done by 'me'
4-Karma yoga thus practiced will make
one to realize all as equal.
GITA Ch 5
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When Knowledge is obtained
Nishkama karma possible
Why the chapter is named as Karmasannyasa Yoga ?
Man can not live without action
,(Nishkama karma) Action without desire and attachment should be practiced,
the mind is thus purified
it becomes possible for man to remain fixed in the
Atmic state when there is no taint of the external world. NO DOERSHIP
When Self-realisation takes place, all action drop away of their own accord.
Sannyasa
Knowledge is obtained
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Chapter five alone offers 23 SADHANAS (Practices), including:
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Gita - Chapter 5 Outline of sections:
A. Nishkama
Karma Yoga is
Equal to but
Easier than
Renouncing
Work
(5.1-6)
B. Working with
Detachment —
Performance of
Nishkama Karma
Yoga
(5.7-12)
C. Enlightenment
Through Knowing
the Three Doers in
Perspective (Soul,
Material Nature
and Supersoul)
(5.13-16)
D. Liberation
Through
Focussing
One’s
Consciousness
on the
Supersoul
(5.17-26)
E. Preliminary
— Liberation
through
Ashtanga-yoga
(5.27-28)
F.
The Peace
Formula
(5.29)
Bhagvad gita Study by Bhakti Caitanya Swami
1-Arjuna again
asks whether
renouncing
work is superior
to working with
detachment
Krishna replies
Both are equal
in the sense
that both are
means to the
same goal
Emphasizes
working wit
h detachment
as easier and
superior(5.1-6)
A-One
performing
Niskama karma
yoga identifies
A-Neither with
his body
B--Nor the
activities that his
body performs
C-By his
detached
actions, he is
freed from the
reactions of his
activities
(5.7-12)
The living being
(Doer No. 1)
who knows that
all bodily
activities are
automatically
carried out
by the modes of
material nature
(Doer No. 2),
after those
activities are
sanctioned by
the Supersoul
(Doer No. 3),
attains
enlightenment
thorough that
knowledge
(5.13-16)
One who, in
knowledge,
devotionally
fixes his
consciousness
on the
Supersoul
and remains
materially
equipoised,
attains
liberation in
the near
future (5.17-
26)
Practice of
Astanga yoga
gives the same
liberation yoga
(5.27-28)
A person in full
consciousness of
Krishna attains
liberation from the
pangs of material
miseries
(5.29)
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A. Nishkama
Karma Yoga is
Equal to but
Easier than
Renouncing
Work
(5.1-6)
B. Working with
Detachment —
Performance of
Nishkama Karma
Yoga
(5.7-12)
C. Enlightenment
Through Knowing
the Three Doers in
Perspective (Soul,
Material Nature
and Supersoul)
(5.13-16)
D. Liberation
Through
Focussing One’s
Consciousness on
the Supersoul
(5.17-26)
E. Preliminary
— Liberation
through
Ashtanga-yoga
(5.27-28)
F.
The Peace
Formula
(5.29)
Bhagvad gita Study by Bhakti Caitanya
1-Arjuna again asks whether
renouncing work is superior to
working with detachment
Krishna replies
Both are equal in the sense that
both are means to the same goal
Emphasizes working with
detachment as easier and
superior(5.1-6)
B. Working with Detachment
Performance of Nishkama Karma
Yoga
(5.7-12) 19

LIFESTYLE
When Self-knowledge is gained, one discovers that he is akartā, abhoktā and hence asaṃsārī.
Thus, the renunciation of body-identification is true sannyāsa which is called jñānakarma-sannyāsa.
This sannyāsa can coexist with active life because it is mental renunciation.
secluded life
āśrama-sannyāsa
[sānkhya, in this chapter]
But āśrama-sannyāsa cannot
coexist with active life because it
is physical renunciation.
active life
karma-yoga
[yoga, in this chapter]
In both the lifestyles, one is identified with the equipments. (B.M.I)
He is a kartā, and hence a saṃsārī.
This shows that lifestyle itself cannot give liberation.
Kṛṣṇa is advising Arjuna to remain in the society
and attain the goal of jñānakarma-sannyāsa. But
Arjuna mistakes the sannyāsa as āśrama-
sannyāsa and sees contradiction in Kṛṣṇa’s
teaching.)
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But in the process of development,
the Yoga of desireless action is superior to the renunciation of action.
Karmayoga is better than Karmasannyasayoga.
Both lead to the highest good.
Both yield the fruit of liberation.
Karmasanyasa yoga
Jnana
Karma yoga
Consisting in action without
desire and attachment
Resulting in the renunciation
of all actions
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5.1. Arjuna repeats the same question of the beginning of chapter 3.
He wants to know which of the two processes is more beneficial, not better.
5.2. Lord Krishna answers by saying that karma yoga (which Prabhupada then
translates as devotional service) is better.
5.3. This explains how beneficial karma yoga is.
5.4. Krishna now says that there is no real difference between them.
But of course the question is which is easier.
5.5. A further clatification of vs 5.4.
Through each one can achieve the same goal.
5.6. Here Lord Krishna is clearly recommending the process of karma yoga or
devotional service.
It is so much easier for a person who is entangled (Rajasic & Tamasic),
because they need to engage their bodies and minds.
A. Nishkama
Karma Yoga is
Equal to but
Easier than
Renouncing
Work
(5.1-6)
B. Working with
Detachment —
Performance of
Nishkama Karma
Yoga
(5.7-12)
C. Enlightenment
Through Knowing
the Three Doers in
Perspective (Soul,
Material Nature
and Supersoul)
(5.13-16)
D. Liberation
Through
Focussing One’s
Consciousness on
the Supersoul
(5.17-26)
E.
Preliminary —
Liberation
through
Ashtanga-yoga
(5.27-28)
F.
The Peace
Formula
(5.29)
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1. (5.7-9) A pure soul doesn’t become
entangled because, although he’s working, he
fixes his mind on Krishna.in Chapter 3, as
Chapter 3 is more establishing the principle
of karma yoga as being a good principle and
recommending that it be practiced, But
Chapter 5 is talking about the practice and
results of advanced karma yoga or even
bhakti yoga.)
5.8-9. This is the condition of a person who is
performing nishkama karma yoga. He is
doing his duty, and, as stated in 3.27, he
knows that it is the modes which are acting,
not him
2. (5.10-12) One who does his duty in this
way, for Krishna, becomes peaceful, whereas
those who are after enjoying the fruits of
their work become entangled.
5.10. This is the devotee’s/nishkama karma
yogi’s result. He is unaffected by reactions.
Nice example of the lotus on water.
5.11. The yogi is always acting for
purification only.
5.12. So the devotee advances nicely and
becomes liberated, whereas the materialist
becomes more and more entangled.
A. Nishkama
Karma Yoga is
Equal to but
Easier than
Renouncing
Work
(5.1-6)
B. Working with
Detachment —
Performance of
Nishkama Karma
Yoga
(5.7-12)
C. Enlightenment
Through Knowing
the Three Doers in
Perspective (Soul,
Material Nature
and Supersoul)
(5.13-16)
D. Liberation
Through
Focussing One’s
Consciousness on
the Supersoul
(5.17-26)
E. Preliminary
— Liberation
through
Ashtanga-yoga
(5.27-28)
F. The Peace
Formula
(5.29)
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5.16. The result of understanding all this (including about the Supersoul’s place in the whole picture) is
that one becomes nicely enlightened about how things are working within this world.
The person who knows that his activities are being carried out by the material nature
after being sanctioned by the Supersoul attains enlightenment through that knowledge.
This is an elaboration on the principle briefly mentioned in 3.27.
5.13. The happy condition of the devotee/ni•
k€ma karma yogi. He is not the cause of his
activities, and so is unaffected by them.
5.14. The modes are doing everything, not the soul.
Soul does not:
create activities
induce others to act
create the fruits of action
5.15. The Supreme Lord is not responsible either (This means the Supersoul, as He is
referred to as vibhuh, or one who is controlling this world).
A. Nishkama
Karma Yoga is
Equal to but
Easier than
Renouncing
Work
(5.1-6)
B. Working with
Detachment —
Performance of
Nishkama
Karma Yoga
(5.7-12)
C. Enlightenment
Through Knowing
the Three Doers in
Perspective (Soul,
Material Nature
and Supersoul)
(5.13-16)
D. Liberation
Through
Focussing One’s
Consciousness on
the Supersoul
(5.17-26)
E.
Preliminary —
Liberation
through
Ashtanga-yoga
(5.27-28)
F. The Peace
Formula
(5.29)
The living being
(Doer No. 1)
who knows that all bodily
activities are
automatically carried out
by the modes (GUNAS) of
material nature (Doer No.
2),
after those activities are
sanctioned by the
Supersoul (Doer No. 3),
attains enlightenment
thorough that knowledge
(5.13-16)
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THE ENLIGHTENED SELF [5.13].
http://srimadbhagvatgita.blogspot.com/2013/07/bhagavad-gita-chapter-5-karma-sannyaasa.html
•Nitya Karma -
Obligatory duties
such as daily prayers.
•Actions to be
performed on special
occasions such as on
birth of a child
•Works intended for
securing special ends
such as for curing
illness etc.
•Actions forbidden by
scriptures like
stealing and other
crimes.
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5.24. This is the higher taste of 2.59. Experienced
through working in relation to the
Supersoul.
This is why it is possible for him to be so tolerant.
5.26. To achieve the state being described in
5.23-5.25 it will take time. But here Krishna is
encouraging us to keep going.
We can reach it in “the very near future.”
How is it going to happen in the near future if it is
so hard?.
1-Fixing his consciousness on the Lord, the person who has
learned the above knowledge sees all living beings equally.
Knowing material delights to be temporary he doesn’t delight
in them. (5.17-23) (Knowledge is not enough. One needs to
take shelter of the Supreme to be liberated.)
* Essentially the person described between 5. 17 & 26
is on the advanced platform of buddhi yoga, is in knowledge
of the Supersoul, and is more or less liberated.
5.17. “tad buddhayas” “tad atmanas.” The “tat” is the
Supersoul referred to in verse 15.
5.18.here sees such equality because he sees all the other
entities in relation to the Supersoul. This “true knowledge”
is the knowledge of everything in relation to the Supersoul.
5.19-20. So this is also describing the person who is seeing
the Supersoul or Krishna.
(5.20) But our gurus say that this applies also
to practising devotees. We should try for this.
5.21. Same.
5.22. Nice point about sense gratification.
BaladevaVidyabh™Krishna says that a nectar-
drinker is not interested in eating mud
5.23. So we really have to learn to be tolerant. At least we
should become that tolerant before we die.
And how do we achieve it? Through fixing our
minds on the Supersoul.
2-Tolerating and checking bodily and mental
urges, his happiness, activities and goals are
within. He is sinless, works for the welfare of
all. He is absorbed in trying for the Supreme,
and soon he will reach It.
(5.24-26)
A. Nishkama Karma
Yoga is Equal to but
Easier than Renouncing
Work
(5.1-6)
B. Working with
Detachment —
Performance of Nishkama
Karma Yoga
(5.7-12)
C. Enlightenment Through
Knowing the Three Doers
in Perspective (Soul,
Material Nature and
Supersoul) (5.13-16)
D. Liberation
Through
Focussing One’s
Consciousness on
the Supersoul
(5.17-26)
E. Preliminary —
Liberation through
Ashtanga-yoga
(5.27-28)
F. The Peace
Formula
(5.29)
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E. (5.27-28)
This is the essence of Astanga yoga
Shutting out all thoughts of external enjoyment, with the gaze fixed on
the space between the eye-brows, equalizing the flow of the incoming
and outgoing breath in the nostrils, and thus controlling the senses,
mind, and intellect, the sage who becomes free from desire and fear,
always lives in freedom.
A. Nishkama
Karma Yoga is
Equal to but
Easier than
Renouncing
Work
(5.1-6)
B. Working with
Detachment —
Performance of
Nishkama
Karma Yoga
(5.7-12)
C. Enlightenment
Through Knowing
the Three Doers in
Perspective (Soul,
Material Nature
and Supersoul)
(5.13-16
D. Liberation
Through
Focussing One’s
Consciousness on
the Supersoul
(5.17-26)
E. Preliminary —
Liberation
through
Ashtanga-yoga
(5.27-28)
F. The
Peace
Formula
(5.29)
Astanga-yoga helps by eight-fold means in following ways:
Becoming free from all fear, desire and anger
Control the senses, mind and intelligence
Feel the presence of Supersoul in transcendental situation
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We must bear in mind that Karma is the product of the "eleven senses," so that if we conquer all the senses we
shall stop Karma. This the Yogi proceeds to do by training his mental faculties to be conscious of nothing else but
Jiva (consciousness). Thus even mental activity is not permitted. The training is consummated in eight stages.
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YOGA
https://tranquilsoul.ca/yoga-2/eight-foldpath/
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YOGA
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YOGA
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A. Nishkama
Karma Yoga is
Equal to but
Easier than
Renouncing
Work
(5.1-6)
B. Working with
Detachment —
Performance of
Nishkama
Karma Yoga
(5.7-12)
C. Enlightenment
Through Knowing
the Three Doers in
Perspective (Soul,
Material Nature
and Supersoul)
(5.13-16
D. Liberation
Through
Focussing One’s
Consciousness on
the Supersoul
(5.17-26)
E. Preliminary —
Liberation
through
Ashtanga-yoga
(5.27-28)
F. The
Peace
Formula
(5.29)
F. The Peace Formula (5.29)
Having realized me as the enjoyer of all sacrifices and austerities,
the Supreme Lord of all the worlds and the selfless Friend of all
living beings, my devotee attains peace.
5.29. Important verse.
Bhoktaram yajna-tapasam – Beneficiary of all sacrifices and penances
Offer everything in the Transcendental Service of the Lord
Sarva-loka-mahesvaram – Supreme Proprietor of all planets and demigods
No one is greater than Him; Greater than greatest demigods
Ref. Svetasvatara Upanishad 6.7: Krishna is the Supreme Isvara
The living entity is under illusion in trying to lord over material nature – but is dominated by the material energy
Suhrdam sarva-bhutanam – Benefactor and well wisher of all living entities
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Gita - Chapter 5 SUMMARY
A. Nishkama
Karma Yoga is
Equal to but
Easier than
Renouncing
Work
(5.1-6)
B. Working with
Detachment —
Performance of
Nishkama Karma
Yoga
(5.7-12)
C. Enlightenment
Through Knowing
the Three Doers in
Perspective (Soul,
Material Nature
and Supersoul)
(5.13-16)
D. Liberation
Through
Focussing One’s
Consciousness on
the Supersoul
(5.17-26)
E. Preliminary
— Liberation
through
Ashtanga-yoga
(5.27-28)
F.
The Peace
Formula
(5.29)
Yukta - integrated
mind and intellect
- having
abandoned the
fruits of action,
attains eternal
peace (5.12)
Working with
Detachment
Performance of
Nishkama
Karma Yoga
BETTER
Knowledge reveals supreme
Brahman like the Sun (5.16)
The one who has the following qualities
reaches Brahman
A-Who has his senses under control (5.25)
B-shutting out all external contacts (5.27)
C-who sees no duality (5.25)
D-intent on the welfare of all beings (5.25)
E-free from desire, fear and anger (5.26, 5.28)
F-who has controlled his senses, mind and
intellect (5.26, 5.28)
G-having liberation as his supreme goal(5.28)
A-The living being (Doer No. 1)
B-who knows that all bodily activities are automatically carried out by the
modes (GUNAS) of material nature (Doer No. 2),
C-after those activities are sanctioned by the Supersoul (Doer No. 3),
attains enlightenment thorough that knowledge (5.13-16)
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OM SHANTI
OM SHANTI
OM SHANTI
Om- let all the deficiencies of this PPT go away
Tat- let this give Bhagavan great happiness
Sat- let this give true lasting benefits
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