🪷 Karma-Sannyāsa Yoga

Bhagavad Gītā Chapter 5 · 29 verses · complete reader-led chapter study

KARMA-SANNYĀSA: study the shared destination of sāṅkhya and yoga, act without clinging, contemplate the embodied one in the nine-gated city, examine equal vision through conduct, approach breath discipline responsibly, and know Krishna as enjoyer of yajña and tapas and friend of all beings. None of these is a natal score.

BG 5.1-29 · The Complete Chapter Movement

Read all 29 received verses in order before the connected source and traditional-reading material.

1. Arjuna asks about renunciation and yoga · BG 5.1-6

अर्जुन उवाच संन्यासं कर्मणां कृष्ण पुनर्योगं च शंससि। यच्छ्रेय एतयोरेकं तन्मे ब्रूहि सुनिश्िचतम्।।5.1।। श्री भगवानुवाच संन्यासः कर्मयोगश्च निःश्रेयसकरावुभौ। तयोस्तु कर्मसंन्यासात्कर्मयोगो विशिष्यते।।5.2।। ज्ञेयः स नित्यसंन्यासी यो न द्वेष्टि न काङ्क्षति। निर्द्वन्द्वो हि महाबाहो सुखं बन्धात्प्रमुच्यते।।5.3।। सांख्ययोगौ पृथग्बालाः प्रवदन्ति न पण्डिताः। एकमप्यास्थितः सम्यगुभयोर्विन्दते फलम्।।5.4।। यत्सांख्यैः प्राप्यते स्थानं तद्योगैरपि गम्यते। एकं सांख्यं च योगं च यः पश्यति स पश्यति।।5.5।। संन्यासस्तु महाबाहो दुःखमाप्तुमयोगतः। योगयुक्तो मुनिर्ब्रह्म नचिरेणाधिगच्छति।।5.6।।

Textual teaching: Arjuna asks Krishna to state decisively whether renunciation or the yoga of action is better. Krishna praises both, places karma-yoga as the more accessible discipline, describes the true renunciant beyond attraction and aversion, and joins sāṅkhya and yoga in one fruit while warning that renunciation without yoga is difficult.

Reader reflection: Study how disciplined action and renunciation of possessiveness can converge in actual conduct; a birth chart does not choose one path or certify its fruit.

2. Act with a purified self and relinquish the fruit · BG 5.7-12

योगयुक्तो विशुद्धात्मा विजितात्मा जितेन्द्रियः। सर्वभूतात्मभूतात्मा कुर्वन्नपि न लिप्यते।।5.7।। नैव किंचित्करोमीति युक्तो मन्येत तत्त्ववित्। पश्यन् श्रृणवन्स्पृशञ्जिघ्रन्नश्नन्गच्छन्स्वपन् श्वसन्।।5.8।। प्रलपन्विसृजन्गृह्णन्नुन्मिषन्निमिषन्नपि। इन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थेषु वर्तन्त इति धारयन्।।5.9।। ब्रह्मण्याधाय कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा करोति यः। लिप्यते न स पापेन पद्मपत्रमिवाम्भसा।।5.10।। कायेन मनसा बुद्ध्या केवलैरिन्द्रियैरपि। योगिनः कर्म कुर्वन्ति सङ्गं त्यक्त्वाऽऽत्मशुद्धये।।5.11।। युक्तः कर्मफलं त्यक्त्वा शान्तिमाप्नोति नैष्ठिकीम्। अयुक्तः कामकारेण फले सक्तो निबध्यते।।5.12।।

Textual teaching: The disciplined yogin acts without being bound, understands seeing, hearing, touching, eating, moving, sleeping, breathing, speaking, releasing, grasping, and opening or closing the eyes as movements of the senses, places actions in Brahman without attachment, and relinquishes action-fruits for peace.

Reader reflection: Before an action, name what is being offered; afterward, release the claim that its fruit establishes your worth.

3. The nine-gated city, agency, ignorance, and knowledge · BG 5.13-16

सर्वकर्माणि मनसा संन्यस्यास्ते सुखं वशी। नवद्वारे पुरे देही नैव कुर्वन्न कारयन्।।5.13।। न कर्तृत्वं न कर्माणि लोकस्य सृजति प्रभुः। न कर्मफलसंयोगं स्वभावस्तु प्रवर्तते।।5.14।। नादत्ते कस्यचित्पापं न चैव सुकृतं विभुः। अज्ञानेनावृतं ज्ञानं तेन मुह्यन्ति जन्तवः।।5.15।। ज्ञानेन तु तदज्ञानं येषां नाशितमात्मनः। तेषामादित्यवज्ज्ञानं प्रकाशयति तत्परम्।।5.16।।

Textual teaching: The self-controlled embodied one mentally relinquishes actions in the city of nine gates. The text then distinguishes the Lord from created agency, action, and their union, says beings proceed through their own nature, and describes ignorance as covering knowledge until knowledge reveals the supreme like the sun.

Reader reflection: Use the traditional enumeration to notice sensory and bodily activity without converting the openings into planetary strengths or medical claims.

Truth boundary: BG 5.13 names a nine-gated city but does not enumerate its openings or assign grahas to them. The separate nine-opening table is a connected traditional enumeration, not additional words inserted into the verse.

4. Knowledge, equal vision, steadiness, and inward happiness · BG 5.17-21

तद्बुद्धयस्तदात्मानस्तन्निष्ठास्तत्परायणाः। गच्छन्त्यपुनरावृत्तिं ज्ञाननिर्धूतकल्मषाः।।5.17।। विद्याविनयसंपन्ने ब्राह्मणे गवि हस्तिनि। शुनि चैव श्वपाके च पण्डिताः समदर्शिनः।।5.18।। इहैव तैर्जितः सर्गो येषां साम्ये स्थितं मनः। निर्दोषं हि समं ब्रह्म तस्माद्ब्रह्मणि ते स्थिताः।।5.19।। न प्रहृष्येत्प्रियं प्राप्य नोद्विजेत्प्राप्य चाप्रियम्। स्थिरबुद्धिरसम्मूढो ब्रह्मविद्ब्रह्मणि स्थितः।।5.20।। बाह्यस्पर्शेष्वसक्तात्मा विन्दत्यात्मनि यत्सुखम्। स ब्रह्मयोगयुक्तात्मा सुखमक्षयमश्नुते।।5.21।।

Textual teaching: Those whose understanding, self, steadfastness, and refuge are in That move toward non-return as knowledge removes impurity. The wise are described as equal-seeing across the learned and humble brāhmaṇa, cow, elephant, dog, and dog-eater; the sequence continues through equality, steadiness amid pleasant and unpleasant experience, and happiness found within rather than in external contact.

Reader reflection: Let treatment of beings, especially where status or preference differs, be the field of examination. A yoga, doṣa, transit, or planetary aspect cannot certify equal vision.

Truth boundary: Vidhyamitra does not assign Paṇḍita-grade, liberation, conquest of rebirth, or sama-darśana attainment to a living reader from a horoscope.

5. Turn from contact-born pleasures toward enduring peace · BG 5.22-26

ये हि संस्पर्शजा भोगा दुःखयोनय एव ते। आद्यन्तवन्तः कौन्तेय न तेषु रमते बुधः।।5.22।। शक्नोतीहैव यः सोढुं प्राक्शरीरविमोक्षणात्। कामक्रोधोद्भवं वेगं स युक्तः स सुखी नरः।।5.23।। योऽन्तःसुखोऽन्तरारामस्तथान्तर्ज्योतिरेव यः। स योगी ब्रह्मनिर्वाणं ब्रह्मभूतोऽधिगच्छति।।5.24।। लभन्ते ब्रह्मनिर्वाणमृषयः क्षीणकल्मषाः। छिन्नद्वैधा यतात्मानः सर्वभूतहिते रताः।।5.25।। कामक्रोधवियुक्तानां यतीनां यतचेतसाम्। अभितो ब्रह्मनिर्वाणं वर्तते विदितात्मनाम्।।5.26।।

Textual teaching: Contact-born enjoyments are described as sources of suffering because they have beginning and end. The sequence names bearing desire and anger before bodily release, happiness and light within, the destruction of faults and doubt, delight in the welfare of all beings, and Brahman-peace for those free from desire and anger who know the self.

Reader reflection: Use the verses for accountable self-examination without claiming that an astrological placement proves freedom, purity, peace, or liberation.

6. Contemplative restraint and Krishna as the friend of all beings · BG 5.27-29

स्पर्शान्कृत्वा बहिर्बाह्यांश्चक्षुश्चैवान्तरे भ्रुवोः। प्राणापानौ समौ कृत्वा नासाभ्यन्तरचारिणौ।।5.27।। यतेन्द्रियमनोबुद्धिर्मुनिर्मोक्षपरायणः। विगतेच्छाभयक्रोधो यः सदा मुक्त एव सः।।5.28।। भोक्तारं यज्ञतपसां सर्वलोकमहेश्वरम्। सुहृदं सर्वभूतानां ज्ञात्वा मां शान्तिमृच्छति।।5.29।।

Textual teaching: The closing movement describes excluding external contacts, directing the gaze, equalizing prāṇa and apāna, restraining senses, mind, and intellect, and freedom from desire, fear, and anger. It culminates in knowing Krishna as enjoyer of yajña and tapas, great Lord of all worlds, and friend of all beings, and thereby attaining peace.

Reader reflection: Read the sequence in context and seek qualified instruction for breath practice. Offer action without inventing a chart-specific Krishna or using planets to certify peace.

Truth boundary: This textual study is not medical advice, a prāṇāyāma diagnosis, or proof of liberation. A horoscope does not determine which form of Krishna receives a reader’s offering or whether peace has been attained.

Karma-Sannyāsa · Sources and Connected Readings

Open these optional pathways for Vidhyamitra's evidence boundaries and the wider spiritual context for BG 5 action-renunciation unity, sama-darśana, and the nine-gated body teaching.

Evidence and limitations · Divine Param-Vidyā

Connected tradition · the nine gates

BG 5.13 says nava-dvāre pure, "in the city of nine gates". The verse does not enumerate those gates. The table preserves a common later bodily enumeration as connected tradition and does not assign planetary rulers, strengths, or diagnoses.

#	Gate	Sanskrit
1	Right eye	दक्षिण-नेत्र
2	Left eye	वाम-नेत्र
3	Right ear	दक्षिण-कर्ण
4	Left ear	वाम-कर्ण
5	Right nostril	दक्षिण-नासिका
6	Left nostril	वाम-नासिका
7	Mouth	मुख
8	Genital opening	उपस्थ-द्वार
9	Anal opening	पायु-द्वार

Chapter-wide truth boundary: BG 5 remains a teaching about action, renunciation, non-attachment, the embodied city, equal vision, contemplative restraint, offering, and peace. A horoscope does not measure sama-darśana, bodily-gate strength, breathing aptitude, liberation, divine acceptance, or spiritual worth.

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