An Atheist Explores the Bhagavad Gita Part 19: All The Best Ways To Be (Yog through the Perfection of Renunciation and Surrender (Mokṣha Sanyās Yog))
Chapter Eighteen: Yog through the Perfection of Renunciation and Surrender (Mokṣha Sanyās Yog) All The Best Ways To Be. Welcome to the next instalment of An Atheist Explores Sacred Texts (Bhagavad Gita). In this series I work my way chapter-by-chapter through the Bhagavad Gita, commenting on it from the point of view of the text as literature and mythology. For more detail, see the introductory post https://bit.ly/2XAch2A For the online Bhagavad Gita that I use, see here https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/ And now: Mokṣha Sanyās Yog “The Supreme Divine Personality said: Giving up of actions motivated by desire is what the wise understand as sanyās . Relinquishing the fruits of all actions is what the learned declare to be tyāg .” This is a long chapter, and something of a summary of what has gone before. It’s also broken up into several topics, all ultimately related to the way of thinking and acting that will both lead to a virtuous life (in the sattva mod