6.3 Action, then stillness Krishna speaks
आरुरुक्षोर्मुनेर्योगं कर्म कारणमुच्यते
योगारूढस्य तस्यैव शमः कारणमुच्यते
ārurukṣhor muner yogaṁ karma kāraṇam uchyate
yogārūḍhasya tasyaiva śhamaḥ kāraṇam uchyate
For the sage climbing toward yoga, action is said to be the means. For one already established in it, stillness is.
Explanation
Two stages, and a different means for each.
For the one climbing, action. For the one already established, stillness.
The Gita has spent four chapters insisting on action, and here it concedes that eventually there is somewhere else to be. Not as a preference — as a stage, arrived at by the work.
Word by word
- ārurukṣhoḥ
- a beginner
- muneḥ
- of a sage
- yogam
- Yog
- karma
- working without attachment
- kāraṇam
- the cause
- uchyate
- is said
- yoga ārūḍhasya
- of those who are elevated in Yog
- tasya
- their
- eva
- certainly
- śhamaḥ
- meditation
- kāraṇam
- the cause
- uchyate
- is said
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