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TEXT 48 yoga-sthah kuru karmani
SYNONYMS  yoga-sthah--steadfast
in yoga; kuru--perform; karmani--your duties; sangam--attachment;
tyaktva--having
abandoned; dhananjaya--O Dhananjaya; siddhi-asiddhyoh--success
and failure; samah--the same; bhutva--having become; samatvam--evenness
of mind; yogah--yoga; ucyate--is called.
TRANSLATION Be steadfast
in yoga, O Arjuna. Perform your duty and abandon all attachment to success
or failure. Such evenness of mind is called yoga.
PURPORT Krsna tells
Arjuna that he should act in yoga. And what is that yoga?Yoga
means to concentrate the mind upon the Supreme by controlling the ever-disturbing
senses. And who is the Supreme? The Supreme is the Lord. And because He
Himself is telling Arjuna to fight, Arjuna has nothing to do with the results
of the fight. Gain or victory are Krsna's concern; Arjuna is simply advised
to act according to the dictation of Krsna. The following of Krsna's dictation
is real yoga, and this is practiced in the process called Krsna
consciousness. By Krsna consciousness only can one give up the sense of
proprietorship. One has to become the servant of Krsna, or the servant
of the servant of Krsna. That is the right way to discharge duty in Krsna
consciousness, which alone can help one to act in yoga.
Arjuna is
a ksatriya, and as such he is participating in the varnasrama-dharma
institution. It is said in the Visnu Purana that in the varnasrama-dharma,
the whole aim is to satisfy Visnu. No one should satisfy himself, as is
the rule in the material world, but one should satisfy Krsna. So, unless
one satisfies Krsna, one cannot correctly observe the principles of varnasrama-dharma.
Indirectly, Arjuna was advised to act as Krsna told him.
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