English Translation of Chapter 5 without Verses 
।5.1।   Arjuna said - O Krishna! you praise renunciating the work and then praise the actions and doing dutiful work. Please tell convincingly, which one of these two is better.

।5.2।   Lord Krishna said - The renunciation of work and work in devotion are both good for liberation. But, of the two, work in devotional service is better than renunciation of work.

।5.3।   O Arjuna! One who is neither jealous nor desirous, consider him as renounced. Such a person, free from all dualities, easily overcomes material bondage.

।5.4।   Only the ignorant consider the two philosophies (based on actions and based on analytical study or renunciation) as different, not the learned ones. He who properly adopts one of the two paths, achieves the results of both.

।5.5।   That place which is reached by the Sankhya Yogi is also reached by the Karma Yogi. He sees, who sees Sankhya Yoga and Karma-Yoga as one.

।5.6।   O Arjuna! renunciation is hard to attain without following Karma-Yoga. The contemplating sage who follows action-yoga, quickly reaches the supreme personality of Godhead.

।5.7।   An action-yogi, whose self is very pure and is fully subdued, the sense-organs controlled, and who realises his Self as the Self in all beings-he is not stained, eventhough he is a performer (of actions).

।5.8,5.9।   Remaining absorbed in the Self, even while seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, moving, sleeping, breathing, speaking, releasing, holding, opening and closing the eyes-remembering that the organs function in relation to the objects of the organs; the knower of Reality should think, 'I certainly do not do anything'.

।5.10।   He who does actions as an offering to almighty, and abandoning attachment, is not tainted by sin, just as a lotus-leaf is not tainted by water.

।5.11।   Giving up attachment, the yogis undertake work merely through the body, mind, intellect and even the organs, for the purification of themselves.

।5.12।   A yogi, renouncing the fruits of his actions, attains lasting peace; but the unsteady man who is attached to fruits of actions, being impelled by desire, is bound.

।5.13।  Having renounced all actions by mind, a man of self-control, dwells happily in his body, a nine-windowed mansion, neither performing, nor causing others to perform.

।5.14।   The lord does not create agency, nor actions, nor union with the fruits of actions in relation to the people. It is only the inherent tendencies that function.

।5.15।   The all-pervading One takes away neither the sin nor the merit of any one. Knowledge is enveloped by ignorance by which creatures are deluded.

।5.16।   For those in whom this ignorance is destroyed by the knowledge of the self, that knowledge, in their case, is supreme and shines like the sun.

।5.17।   Whose intellect is absorbed in That, whose self has become one with That, who is totally devoted to Him, Who totally rely on Him, his sins dipelled by His knowledge, do not get rebirth again (get over from the cycle of birth and death).

।5.18।   The sages look with an equal eye on one endowed with learning and humility, a Brahmana, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a dog-eater.

।5.19।   Those whose minds are established in sameness and equanimity have already conquered the world. They see the almighty as same and flawless everywhere,and thus they are already situated in Brahman.

।5.20।   Who neither rejoices at gaining what is pleasant, nor grieves on obtaining what is unpleasant, that person with steady and undeluded mind is situated in Brahman and rests in ultimate state.

।5.21।  With his heart unattached to external objects, he gets the bliss in the Self. With his heart absorbed in meditation, he acquires undecaying bliss.

।5.22।  O Arjuna! enjoyments that result from contact (with objects) are verily the sources of sorrow and have a beginning and an end; the wise does not delight in them.

।5.23।   He who is able to withstand the impulse born out of desire and anger, before the liberation from the body, he is a Yogi, he is a happy man.

।5.24।   One whose happiness is within, who is active and rejoices within, and who is illuminated within; he is liberated in the Supreme, and ultimately he attains the Supreme.

।5.25।   The sages who are free from the pairs of opposites, whose minds are well subdued and who are devoted to the welfare of all beings, become cleansed of all impurities and attain the bliss of the Brahman.

।5.26।   Those who are free from anger and all material desires, who are self-realized, self-disciplined; are assured of liberation in the Supreme.

।5.27,5.28।   That contemplative saint is completely free who, keeping the external objects outside, eyes at the juncture of the eye-brows, making equal the outgoing and incoming breaths that move through the nostrils, has control over his organs, mind and intellect and is free from desire, fear and anger.

|5.29।   Knowing Me as the enjoyer of all sacrifices and austerities, as the Supreme Lord of all the worlds, as the Friend of every being, he attains peace.