Quiz · 6.1–6.9
Renunciation is the yoga
Cover the answer. Read the Devanagari of the verse before you open it.
1
In 6.5, ātmanā (आत्मना), ātmānam (आत्मानम्), and ātmanaḥ (आत्मनः) are three cases of one word. What is each case, and what question does it answer in उद्धरेत् आत्मना आत्मानम् uddharet ātmanā ātmānam?
Answer
ātmanā (आत्मना) is instrumental, "by the self," the means of the lifting. ātmānam (आत्मानम्) is accusative, the self that is lifted. ātmanaḥ (आत्मनः) is genitive, "of the self," in ātmā eva ātmanaḥ bandhuḥ (आत्मा एव आत्मनः बन्धुः), the self alone is the friend of the self. The case is the meaning.
2
asaṃnyastasaṅkalpaḥ (असंन्यस्तसङ्कल्पः) stands in front of yogī (योगी) in 6.2. What is recited, and which sandhi makes it?
Answer
asaṃnyastasaṅkalpo yogī (असंन्यस्तसङ्कल्पो योगी). Final --aḥ (अः) before a voiced consonant becomes --o (ओ). The nominative is still there. The recitation has hidden it.
3
What does 6.1 say the renouncer is, and which two men is he not?
Answer
Who does the work that is to be done and does not lean on its fruit, he is the renouncer and he is the yogin — not the man without the fire, and not the man who does nothing.
4
What is Kṛṣṇa (कृष्ण) doing in 6.1–6.9, before he tells Arjuna how to sit?
Answer
He names the renunciation. Action done without clinging is the renunciation he means, and the same man is the yogin. The self lifts the self. The one whose self is conquered stays composed in the pairs, and the even mind is set apart among friend, enemy, the good, and the wicked.
5
Say 6.5 back. Which word fails the sitting if the lifting is done by someone else?
Answer
उद्धरेत् आत्मना आत्मानम् uddharet ātmanā ātmānam. If ātmanā (आत्मना) comes out as another person doing the lifting, stay on 6.5.