Text 3911
Contents of the City Summarized
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eṣā te’bhihitā sāṅkhye  
 buddhir yoge tv imāṁ śṛṇu  
 buddhyā yukto yayā pārtha  
 karma-bandhaṁ prahāsyasi
eṣā —all these;  te —unto you;  abhihitā —described;  sāṅkhye —by analytical study;  buddhiḥ —intelligence;  yoge —work without fruitive result;  tu —but;  imām —this;  śṛṇu —just hear;  buddhyā —by intelligence;  yuktaḥ —dovetailed;  yayā —by which;  pārtha —O son of Pṛthā;  karma-bandham —bondage of reaction;  prahāsyasi —you can be released from.
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.
PURPORT
According to the  Nirukti , or the Vedic dictionary,  saṅkhya  means that which describes phenomena in detail, and  saṅkhya  refers to that philosophy which describes the real nature of the soul. And  yoga  involves controlling the senses. Arjuna’s proposal not to fight was based on sense gratification. Forgetting his prime duty, he wanted to cease fighting because he thought that by not killing his relatives and kinsmen he would be happier than by enjoying the kingdom by conquering his cousins and brothers, the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra. In both ways, the basic principles were for sense gratification. Happiness derived from conquering them and happiness derived by seeing kinsmen alive are both on the basis of personal sense gratification, for there is a sacrifice of wisdom and duty. Kṛṣṇa, therefore, wanted to explain to Arjuna that by killing the body of his grandfather he would not be killing the soul proper, and He explained that all individual persons, including the Lord Himself, are eternal individuals; they were individuals in the past, they are individuals in the present, and they will continue to remain individuals in the future, because all of us are individual souls eternally, and we simply change our bodily dress in different manners. But, actually, we keep our individuality even after liberation from the bondage of material dress. An analytical study of the soul and the body has been very graphically explained by Lord Kṛṣṇa. And this descriptive knowledge of the soul and the body from different angles of vision has been described