Love-filled service to Krishna under His direction frees the soul from karma's bondage forever.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 2.39 — September 12, 1973, London 730912BG-LONDON [29:03 Minutes] Bg-02.39_730912BG-LONDON Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] eṣā te 'bhihitā sāṅkhye buddhir yoge tv imāṁ śṛṇu buddhyā yukto yayā pārtha karma-bandhaṁ prahāsyasi [Bg. 2.39] [break] [01:20] Translation: "Thus far I have declared to you the analytical knowledge of sāṅkhya philosophy.
Now listen to the knowledge of yoga whereby one works without fruitive result. O son of Pṛthā, when you act by such intelligence, you can free yourself from the bondage of works." Prabhupāda: eṣā te abhihitā sāṅkhye buddhir yoge tu imāṁ śṛṇu buddhyā yukto yayā pārtha karma-bandhaṁ prahāsyasi [Bg. 2.39] Karma-bandham. You act something, and there is reaction. That is called karma-bandha.
We can understand very easily: whatever you act, there is reaction. Good act or bad act... There are two things. So if while in this body we act piously, then our future is very good.
If we act impiously, then our future is not very good. So actually we should act piously, not impiously. That is human life. We should know what kind of action we should do.
In the Sixteenth Chapter of Bhagavad-gītā you'll find, pravṛttiṁ ca nivṛttiṁ ca na vidur āsura-janāḥ [Bg. 16.7]: "Those who are asuras, they do not know what kind of action should be done and what kind of action should not be done." Not that "Anything I like, at my whims." That is not... At least for human being, he should not do. Even in the state laws, if you act whimsically, whatever you like, you'll be liable to so many difficulties, and what to speak of spiritual life? So Kṛṣṇa has described so far... Sāṅkhya yoga means analytical study of the soul and the body.
He has very nicely... So this analytical study of the soul and body means so far, He has described the activities of the body. That is sāṅkhya yoga. Just like a medical man has got full analysis—not full; to a portion—of this body, the anatomy, the physiology.
They have studied how the veins are working, how different secretions are transforming into blood, how the heart is working. This is called analytical study. So eṣā te abhihitā sāṅkhye. So far the body is concerned, that is now fully analyzed. Now, buddhir yoge tv imām, another department of knowledge, buddhi-yoga.