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Verse 5·5

Through yoga one reaches the eternal reality

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यत्साङ्ख्यैः प्राप्यते स्थानं तद्योगैरपि गम्यते ।एकं सांख्यं च योगं च यः पश्यति स पश्यति ॥

yatsāṅkhyaiḥ prāpyate sthānaṃ tadyogairapi gamyateekaṃ sāṃkhyaṃ ca yogaṃ ca yaḥ paśyati sa paśyati

The status which is attained by the Sankhya, to that the men of the Yoga also arrive; who sees Sankhya and Yoga as one, he sees.

Gītā 5·5

Sankhya and Yoga are not two different, incompatible and discordant systems, but one in their principle and aim; they differ only in their method and starting-point. The Sankhya also is a Yoga, but it proceeds by knowledge; it starts, that is to say, by intellectual discrimination and analysis of the principles of our being and attains its aim through the vision and possession of the Truth. Yoga, on the other hand, proceeds by works; it is in its first principle Karmayoga; … Yoga is the practice of the Truth of which knowledge gives the vision, and its practice has for its motor-power a spirit of illumined devotion, of calm or fervent consecration to that which knowledge sees to be the Highest.

CWSA 19 · Essays on the Gita · p. 70

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