Chapter 2 · Verse 48 · Sankhya Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 2.48
Sanskrit
योगस्थः कुरु कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा धनञ्जय। सिद्ध्यसिद्ध्योः समो भूत्वा समत्वं योग उच्यते।।2.48।।
Transliteration
yoga-sthaḥ kuru karmāṇi saṅgaṁ tyaktvā dhanañjaya siddhy-asiddhyoḥ samo bhūtvā samatvaṁ yoga uchyate
In plain words
You are exhausted from gripping the outcome—the saved marriage, the returned lover, the healed child, the debt repaid, the exam passed, the cancer gone. Krishna says: do what is yours to do, completely and with integrity, then release your white-knuckle hold on whether it works out. The peace you're looking for lives on the other side of that release, not in the success itself.
हिंदी अर्थ
हे धनञ्जय, योग में स्थित होकर आसक्ति को त्यागते हुए अपने कर्मों को करो और सफलता-असफलता दोनों में समान भाव रखो। यह समता ही योग कहलाती है, अर्थात् सभी परिस्थितियों में मन को शांत और संतुलित रखना ही सच्चा योग है।
Word by Word
Krishna distills the essence of yoga into a single principle: perform your dharma while releasing attachment to outcomes. This is not indifference—it is the freedom of a heart unshaken by success or failure, rooted in the eternal Self that transcends all results.
When you act from duty without clinging to fruits, you become an instrument of divine will, and equanimity itself becomes your greatest spiritual practice. In our modern scramble for validation and results, this verse invites you to distinguish between committed action and anxious grasping—to discover that true power emerges only when you release your stranglehold on outcomes.
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