29. Writing on Water, Sand and Stone
A fter elucidating about sankhya (awareness) (2.11-2.38), Krishna says that He would now explain yoga (or karma yoga ), the practice of which will free one from karma bandhan (bondage of action) (2.39). While explaining sankhya yoga , Krishna makes Arjuna aware that he is that indestructible chaitanya (consciousness) which doesn’t have death. From this verse onwards Krishna starts explaining the same through karma yoga . Thus, karma bandhan and yoga need to be understood in this context. The literal meaning of Yoga is union and this word is used in many contexts. Krishna mentions equanimity as yoga (2.48) where attachment to success or failure is abandoned. The emphasis of Krishna is to maintain equanimity towards pleasure and pain; winning and losing; and profit and loss (2.38). Karma - bandhan is the accumulation of impressions, pleasant as well as painful, created by our actions and their outcomes when we respond to them with attachment, aversion, o...