Path of Knowledge, Action, Renunciation Gita 4

The Lord said:

1. I exposed this everlasting yoga to Vivasvat; Vivasvat communicated it to

2. Thus transmitted successively, the royal sages learned it; But by long lapse of time, this Yoga was lost to the World, O Parantapa.

The same ancient yoga that I have exposed to you today, because Thou are my devotee and my friend, is the supreme mystery.

Arjuna say:

4. Thou were born after Vivasvat, so my Lord how can I understand that Thou expounded it in the beginning of time?

The Lord said:

5. Many births have we experienced, both you and I, O Arjuna; I know them all, you do not know them, O Parantapa.

6. Although unborn and inexhaustible in My essence, although Lord of all beings, even assuming control over My Nature, I come into being by My mysterious power.

7-8. For when Goodness fails, when Evil increases, when the purpose of life is forgotten, then, O Bharata, I will manifest myself, I will return to save the righteous, destroy the wicked and restore the path of principles. I am born from age to age (in all times)

9. He who knows the secret of My birth and divine action is not reborn again; after leaving the body, he comes to Me, O Arjuna.

10. Free yourself from passion, fear and anger, totally filled with Me, trusting in Me and purified by the fiery test of knowledge, many have become one with Me.

11. In whatsoever form one seeks Me, I reach him in that form, for all mankind are but following the paths I laid down for them.

12. Those who wish their actions to bear fruit offer sacrifices to the gods; because in the world of men the fruit of action can be obtained quickly.
13. The four Castes were created by Me according to the division of Gunas and Karma. Though I am their Creator, yet know that I neither act nor change

14. Actions do not affect Me, nor am I interested in their fruits. He who recognizes Me as such is not enslaved by actions.

15. Knowing this, the men of ancient times, eager for freedom, carried out actions; Do you then, just as the men of old did.

Etc.

Thus concludes the fourth dialogue, entitled Jnana Yoga.

Chapter 4 of the Bhagavad Gita (Gandhi): Yoga of Knowledge and Renunciation of Action

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Chapter 4 of the Bhagavad Gita (versified)

• 1- Arjuna’s Despondency
• 2- Sankhya Yoga
  • Sankhya Philosophy of Yoga
  • Sankhya Yoga (Philosophy)
• 3- The Yoga of Action
  • Karma Yoga (Swami Vivekananda)
• IV- The Yoga of Knowledge
  • Ode to Sri Ramakrishna
  • Jnana Karma Sannyasa Yoga
  • Restore the Knowledge
  • transmission of the knowledge of the Bhagavad Gita
  • Ignorance and Knowledge
• 5- The Yoga of Renunciation of action
  • Karma Sannyasa Yoga
• 6- The Yoga of Meditation
  • Pranayama
• 7- The Yoga of Knowledge of Brahman
• 8- The Yoga of Parabrahman
• 9- The Yoga of Royal Knowledge
• 10- The Yoga of Divine Glories
• 11- The Yoga of the Universal Form
• 12- The Yoga of Devotion
• 13- The Yoga of the Field
• 14- The Yoga of the Three Gunas
• 15- The Yoga of the Supreme Person
• 16- The Yoga of Divine Inheritance
• 17- The Yoga of the Threefold Faith
• 18- The Yoga of Liberation