Bhagavad Gita, The Song of God - Chapter-2.39: Swami Mukundananda

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Wednesday  01, May 2024. 07:50.
Chapter 2: Sankhya Yogam
The Yogam of Analytical Knowledge

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Slogam - 39.

"Esha te ’bhihita sankhye buddhir yoge tvimam shrinu

buddhya yukto yaya partha karma-bandham prahasyasi."

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esha—hitherto; 

te—to you; 

abhihita—explained; 

sankhye—by analytical knowledge; 

buddhi yoge—by the yoga of intellect; 

tu—indeed; 

imam—this;

 shrinu—listen; 

buddhya—by understanding; 

yuktah—united; 

yaya—by which; 

partha—Arjuna, the son of Pritha; 

karma-bandham—bondage of karma; 

prahasyasi—you shall be released from.

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Translation:

BG 2.39: 

"Hitherto, I have explained to you Sānkhya Yog, or analytic knowledge regarding the nature of the soul. Now listen, O Parth, as I reveal Buddhi Yog, or the Yog of Intellect. When you work with such understanding, you will be freed from the bondage of karma."

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Commentary:

The word Sankhya comes from the roots San, meaning “complete,” and khya, meaning “to know.” 

So Sankhya means the “complete analytical knowledge of something.” The Sankhya Darshan, which is one of the six philosophical treatises in Indian philosophy, makes an analytical enumeration of the entities in cosmos. It lists twenty-four entities: pañch-mahābhūta (earth, water, fire, air, and sky), pañch tanmātrā (the five abstract qualities of matter—taste, touch, smell, sound, and sight), pañch karmendriya (five working senses), pañch jñānendriya (five knowledge senses), mind, ahankār (the entity created by the evolution of mahān), mahān (the entity created by evolution of prakriti), prakriti (the primordial form of the material energy). Apart from these is puruṣh or the soul, which tries to enjoy prakriti, and gets bound in it.

Shree Krishna has just explained to Arjuna another form of Sankhya, which is the analytical knowledge of the immortal soul. He now says that he is going to reveal the science of working without desire for rewards. This requires detachment from the fruits of actions. Such detachment comes by practicing discrimination with the intellect. Hence, Shree Krishna has interestingly called it buddhi yog, or “Yog of the Intellect.” In subsequent verses (2.41 and 2.44), he goes on to explain how the intellect plays an important role in bringing the mind to a state of detachment.

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