Bhagavad Gita 2.50
Chapter 2, verse 50
Meaning
Someone joined to this understanding drops, here and now, the hold of both good and bad deeds. So commit yourself to yoga. Yoga is skill in action.
The Sanskrit
बुद्धियुक्तो जहातीह उभे सुकृतदुष्कृते ।
तस्माद्योगाय युज्यस्व योगः कर्मसु कौशलम् ॥ ५० ॥
buddhiyukto jahātīha ubhe sukṛtaduṣkṛte
tasmād yogāya yujyasva yogaḥ karmasu kauśalam
Say it
bud-dhi-yook-to juh-haa-tee-huh oo-bhay soo-kri-tuh-doosh-kri-tay
tus-maad-yo-gaa-yuh yooj-yus-vuh yo-guh-hu kur-muh-soo kau-shuh-lum
Word by word
- buddhi-yuktaḥ
- one joined to this understanding
- jahāti iha
- leaves behind, here in this life
- ubhe sukṛta-duṣkṛte
- both good deeds and bad deeds (their binding hold)
- tasmāt yogāya yujyasva
- so commit yourself to yoga
- yogaḥ karmasu kauśalam
- yoga is skill in action
Read it in context: verses 2.49–52Yoga is skill in actionWith the story so far, commentary, and today's lesson: The skill is in the doing
Another translation and audio recitation: verse 2.50 on holy-bhagavad-gita.org.
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