Sanskrit
ध्यानेनात्मनि पश्यन्ति केचिदात्मानमात्मना । अन्ये साङ्ख्येन योगेन कर्मयोगेन चापरे ॥
dhyānenātmani paśyanti kecid ātmānam ātmanā anye sāṅkhyena yogena karmayogena cāpare
Translation
Some by meditation behold the Self in the self by the Self; others by the Sânkhya Yoga, and others by the Yoga of Action;
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
Having just said that knowing purusha-and-prakriti ends rebirth, Krishna immediately concedes there’s more than one way to arrive at that seeing: meditation (dhyana), the Sankhya path of analytical knowledge, and karma yoga, the discipline of action without attachment to results that chapters 2 and 3 built at length. Naming karma yoga here as one option among several is a useful check on reading any single chapter of the Gita as the whole teaching — the text keeps returning to this same plurality-of-paths move (see also chapter 12’s opening question about jnana versus bhakti).
Concepts