Verse 6.2

यं संन्यासमिति प्राहुर्योगं तं विद्धि पाण्डव ।

न ह्यसंन्यस्तसङ्कल्पो योगी भवति कश्चन ॥

6.2

Transliteration

yaṃ saṃnyāsamiti prāhuryogaṃ taṃ viddhi pāṇḍava |

na hyasaṃnyastasaṅkalpo yogī bhavati kaścana ||

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Translation

Do thou, O Arjuna, know Yoga to be that which they call renunciation; no one verily becomes a Yogi who has not renounced thoughts.

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Word by word

which
renunciation
thus
they call
yoga
that
know
O son of Pandu

not
for
one who has not given up desire-thoughts
a yogi
becomes
anyone

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Explanation

Krishna says plainly that what people call renunciation is the same as yoga. The link between them is the giving up of saṅkalpa, the self-willed intention that plans actions around personal gain. Without letting go of such intentions, no one becomes a yogi, however disciplined they may look. This removes the apparent conflict Arjuna felt between the life of action and the life of withdrawal. Both, at their heart, require the same inner step: releasing the ego's grip on what one does.