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title: "Verse 06.1-2 | Bhagavad-Gita: 06 - The Yoga of Contemplation - v1.4"
heading: "Bhagavad-Gita: Chapter 06"
subheading: "= 06.1-2 ="
updated: "2025-09-29T00:00:00+00:00"
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url: https://ananda.icu/trans/bg/06/1-2
description: "The sixth chapter of Bhagavad-Gita explores dhyana-yoga, the path of union through contemplative practice. It discusses the state and effects of yoga, literally union, and the practices and path of the yogi, the contemplator on a quest for that union."
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śrī-bhagavān uvāca
anāśritaḥ karma-phalaṁ
   kāryaṁ karma karoti yaḥ |
sa saṁnyāsī ca yogī ca
   na niragnir na cākriyaḥ ||1||[↪](/trans/bg/06/1)
The illustrious one said:
Independent from the fruits of action,
who executes the works to be done -
That is the renunciate and the yogi,
Not who lights no flames or does no deeds.
Notes: The path of union properly begins with withdrawal from the pursuit of self-centered desires. In here, the term _saṁnyāsa_, commonly rendered as "full renunciation", has two imports. One meaning of _nyāsa_ is "resigning" or "laying aside", and another is "assigning" or "depositing". The text hints at the real and complete meaning as "total reassignment", the deposition of every aspect of the fractured individual into a realm of integration and union. In the upcycling and repurposing of our being, we reach for a state of living and integral liberation — beyond a mere resignation from the complexity of existence.

yaṁ saṁnyāsam iti prāhur
   yogaṁ taṁ viddhi pāṇḍava |
na hy asaṁnyasta-saṁkalpo
   yogī bhavati kaścana ||2||[↪](/trans/bg/06/2)
What they call total renunciation,
know that as union (yoga), Pandava;
Without total resignation of desire,
never will one become a yogi.
Notes: The forsaking of self-centered desire is a natural and obvious implication from the call for union. Pursuit of fragmented desire reinforces the separation of the individual from the whole and, as such, is evidently antithetical to unification. The _yogī_ (unifier) necessarily pursues _yoga_ (union) — instead of separation. When fragmented desires stem from the pursuit of a natural potential and promise beneficial collective outcomes, they can be repurposed into a pure and selfless momentum, integrated into the agency of the collective sphere. An aspiring yogi must discern between desires to be abandoned and desires that may be repurposed — releasing desires from the shackles of the finite self.

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