Sanskrit · Devanagari
साङ्ख्ययोगौ पृथग्बालाः प्रवदन्ति न पण्डिताः। एकमप्यास्थितः सम्यगुभयोर्विन्दते फलम् ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
sāṅkhyayogau pṛthagbālāḥ pravadanti na paṇḍitāḥ ekamapyāsthitaḥ samyagubhayorvindate phalam
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Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882Children—not wise men—talk of saṅkhya and yoga as distinct. One who pursues either well obtains the fruit of both.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।5.4।। सांख्ययोगौ पृथक् विरुद्धभिन्नफलौ बालाः प्रवदन्ति न पण्डिताः। पण्डितास्तु ज्ञानिन एकं फलम् अविरुद्धम् इच्छन्ति। कथम् एकमपि सांख्ययोगयोः सम्यक् आस्थितः सम्यगनुष्ठितवान् इत्यर्थः उभयोः विन्दते फलम्। उभयोः तदेव हि निःश्रेयसं फलम् अतः न फले विरोधः अस्ति।।ननु संन्यासकर्मयोगशब्देन प्रस्तुत्य सांख्ययोगयोः फलैकत्वं कथम् इह अप्रकृतं ब्रवीति नैष दोषः यद्यपि अर्जुनेनसंन्यासं कर्मयोगं च केवलम् अभिप्रेत्य प्रश्नः कृतः भगवांस्तु तदपरित्यागेनैव स्वाभिप्रेतं च विशेषं संयोज्य शब्दान्तरवाच्यतया प्रतिवचनं ददौ सांख्ययोगौ इति। तौ एव संन्यासकर्मयोगौ ज्ञानतदुपायसमबुद्धित्वादिसंयुक्तौ सांख्ययोगशब्दवाच्यौ इति भगवतो मतम्। अतः न अप्रकृतप्रक्रियेति।।एकस्यापि सम्यगनुष्ठानात् कथम् उभयोः फलं विन्दते इति उच्यते
160f1f2453fd…Rāmānuja
5.4 Those who say that Karma Yoga and Jnana Yoga are distinct because of the difference in results, are children, i.e., are persons with incomplete knowledge; they do not know the entire truth. The meaning is that they do not possess true knowledge, who say that Karma Yoga results in Jnana Yoga only and that Jnana Yoga alone results in the vision of the self and that the two are thus distinct because of the difference in their fruits. But on the contrary as both have only the vision of the self as the fruit, a person who is firmly set in one of them, wins that one fruit common to both. Sri Krsna further expounds the same:
799f4223a021…Swami Sivananda
5.4 सांख्ययोगौ Sankhya (knowledge) and Yoga (Yoga of action or performance of action)? पृथक् distinct? बालाः children? प्रवदन्ति speak? न not? पण्डिताः the wise? एकम् one? अपि even? आस्थितः established in? सम्यक् truly? उभयोः of both? विन्दते obtains? फलम् fruit.Commentary Children the ignorant people who have no knowledge of the Self? and who have only a theoretical knowledge of the scriptures.Children or ignorant people only say that knowledge and the performance of action are different and produce distinct and opposite results. But the wise who have the knowledge of the Self say that they produce the same result only? viz.? Moksha or liberation. He who is duly established in,one? he who truly lives in one? Sankhya or Yoga? obtains the fruits of both. Therefore there is no diversity in the result or the fruit. This is the gist of this verse. (Cf.VI.2)
834c2ebab62c…These supplied texts come from the pinned VedicScriptures dataset under GPL-3.0 and await independent alignment review.