Śabda No. 2
You think it is a pose.
“Evenness of mind is said to be Yoga… Yoga is skill in action.”
Most of us picture a pose. The Gītā defines yoga twice in three verses: evenness of mind, and skill in action. Neither is a pose.
Arjuna asked his. Samvāda answers yours with the Gītā's own verses.
Samvāda is software, an AI companion tuned to the Bhagavad Gītā. It is not a person. It answers from the verse and shows you which one, and it never pretends to be Kṛṣṇa.
योगस्थः कुरु कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा धनञ्जय।
सिद्ध्यसिद्ध्योः समो भूत्वा समत्वं योग उच्यते।।
yoga-sthaḥ kuru karmāṇi saṅgaṁ tyaktvā dhanañjaya siddhy-asiddhyoḥ samo bhūtvā samatvaṁ yoga ucyate
Abandoning attachment and established in Yoga, perform works, viewing success and failure with an even mind. Evenness of mind is said to be Yoga.
बुद्धियुक्तो जहातीह उभे सुकृतदुष्कृते।
तस्माद्योगाय युज्यस्व योगः कर्मसु कौशलम्।।
buddhi-yukto jahātīha ubhe sukṛta-duṣkṛte tasmād yogāya yujyasva yogaḥ karmasu kauśalam
A person with an evenness of mind discards both good and evil here and now. Therefore, strive for Yoga; for Yoga is skill in action.
2.48 is verse 95 of 700, and verse 48 of 72 in chapter 2.
2.48 and 2.50 are 2 verses apart.
Yoga and yogī (saṅyoga, viyoga and niryoga not counted), in any form, appears in 88 verses of the 700, first at 2.39 and last at 18.78.
Counted by Vāṇi on the 700-verse text at getvani.app/gita.
Within a few verses the Gītā defines yoga twice, and neither definition is a pose. 2.48 says: abandon attachment, stand in yoga, do your work, and treat success and failure alike. Evenness of mind, the verse says, is yoga. 2.49 adds that action done with attachment is far lower than action done with evenness of mind, and that those who act for results are miserable. 2.50 gives the second definition: a person with an even mind casts off both good and evil deeds here and now, so strive for yoga, because yoga is skill in action. 2.51 shows what the wise do with that: they give up the fruits of action and are freed from the bond of birth. All of this sits in chapter 2, and what the Gītā says about karma follows it further.