Chapter 12 Verse 12 of 20

• śreyo hi jñānam abhyāsāj
• jñānād dhyānaḿ viśiṣyate
• dhyānāt karma-phala-tyāgas
• tyāgāc chāntir anantaram

Translation

If you cannot take to this practice, then engage yourself in the cultivation of knowledge. Better than knowledge, however, is meditation, and better than meditation is renunciation of the fruits of action, for by such renunciation one can attain peace of mind.

Synonyms

• śreyaḥ

  better

• hi

  certainly

• jñānam

  knowledge

• abhyāsāt

  than practice

• jñānāt

  than knowledge

• dhyānam

  meditation

• viśiṣyate

  is considered better

• dhyānāt

  than meditation

• tyāgaḥ

  renunciation of the results of fruitive action

• tyāgāt

  by such renunciation

• śāntiḥ

  peace

• anantaram

  thereafter.

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