Karma Sanyasa Yoga

The fifth chapter titled "Karma Sanyaasa Yoga" begins with Arjuna's question to Shri Krishna. The question is, “What is better, renouncing all actions and becoming a monk, or performing actions as a karma yogi? Shri Krishna addresses this question by reiterating a nuance that Arjuna had missed in the previous chapter.

Renouncing the actions does not mean giving up the physical performance of actions, it means renouncing the sense of doership, the sense that "I am doing something". In order to get to this stage, one has to have a pure desireless mind.