Bhagavad Gita Bhashya (Sri Madhvacharya) 5.6
Bhagavad Gita Bhashya (Sri Madhvacharya) 5.6 · 5 · Verse 6
Sanskrit Original
।।5.6।।इतश्च सन्न्यासाद्योगो वर इत्याह सन्न्यासस्त्विति। योगाभावे मोक्षादिफलं न भवति अतः कामजयादिदुःखमेव तस्य मोक्षाद्येव हि फलम्। अन्यत्तत्फलमल्पत्वादफलमेवेत्याशयः। तच्चोक्तम् विना मोक्षफलं यत्तु न तत्फलमुदीर्यते इति पाद्मे। यत्तु महाफलयोग्यं तस्याल्पं फलमेव न भवति यथा पद्मरागस्य तण्डुलमुष्टिः। महाफलश्च योगयुक्तश्चेत्सन्न्यास इत्याहयोगयुक्त इति। मुनिः सन्न्यासी। तच्चोक्तम् स हि लोके मुनिर्नाम यः कामक्रोधवर्जितः इति।
Thereafter: ‘Yoga is superior to renunciation’ — yet it was said ‘renunciation is…’ Because without yoga one does not obtain the fruit of liberation; from merely overcoming desire and so on one attains only suffering, and that alone is the fruit of renunciation. The other fruits are meager or nonexistent. Therefore the text says: ‘That which does not yield the fruit of liberation is not fruit’ (in the Padma); what is fit for great fruit cannot have a small result — as a handful of rice from a lotus-stalk cannot be the great fruit. The great fruit together with being fit for yoga is sannyāsa. ‘The sage is called a sannyāsī’ — thus: ‘He in the world is called muni who is free from desire and anger.’