Within the supplied attestations (all from Bhagavad Gītā chapter 2, mūla only), yoga denotes a practical standpoint or disciplined mode of the intellect (buddhi), set in contrast to sāṃkhya as the alternative buddhi (2.39). The verses give yoga two explicit verbal definitions: it is "samatva," evenness of mind toward success and failure (2.48), and it is "skill in actions" (karmasu kauśalam, 2.50). It functions both as the disposition in which one is to act ("yogasthaḥ kuru karmāṇi," 2.48; "yogāya yujyasva," 2.50) and as a state to be attained (avāpsyasi) once the buddhi becomes steady and unmoving in absorption (samādhi, 2.53). Across these loci yoga is closely bound to the buddhi and to action performed without attachment, by which one casts off the bondage of works (karmabandha, 2.39; ubhe sukṛta-duṣkṛte, 2.50).
Senses
The reading surface. A later ingestion attaches a locus to a settled sense, or proposes a new one (dashed) for human triage — it never rewrites settled prose.
1 · The standpoint/teaching about yoga, presented as the buddhi in its yoga mode, contrasted w…settledadded v1
The standpoint/teaching about yoga, presented as the buddhi in its yoga mode, contrasted with the buddhi of sāṃkhya; equipped with which one casts off the bondage of action.
smṛti (epic-philosophical)
bhagavadgita:2.39
2 · Evenness of mind (samatva): being equal toward success and failure while performing action…settledadded v1
Evenness of mind (samatva): being equal toward success and failure while performing actions established in yoga; here explicitly 'samatvaṃ yoga ucyate.'
smṛti (epic-philosophical)
bhagavadgita:2.48
3 · Skill in actions (karmasu kauśalam): that to which one is exhorted to yoke oneself, by whi…settledadded v1
Skill in actions (karmasu kauśalam): that to which one is exhorted to yoke oneself, by which the one joined to buddhi abandons both good and evil deeds.
smṛti (epic-philosophical)
bhagavadgita:2.50
4 · The state to be attained (yogam avāpsyasi) once the intellect, no longer bewildered by wha…settledadded v1
The state to be attained (yogam avāpsyasi) once the intellect, no longer bewildered by what is heard, stands firm and unmoving in absorption (samādhi).
smṛti (epic-philosophical)
bhagavadgita:2.53
Attestation concordance — tier 2, every locus
Append-only. Grows by locus as texts arrive; stays one collapsed table so the senses remain the reading surface.
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Snippet
bhagavadgita:2.39
Bhagavad Gītā (mūla)
smṛti (epic-philosophical)
mula
eṣā te 'bhihitā sāṃkhye buddhir yoge tv imāṃ śṛṇu | buddhyā yukto yayā pārtha karmabandhaṃ prahāsyasi ||39||
bhagavadgita:2.48
Bhagavad Gītā (mūla)
smṛti (epic-philosophical)
mula
yogasthaḥ kuru karmāṇi saṅgaṃ tyaktvā dhanaṃjaya | siddhy-asiddhyoḥ samo bhūtvā samatvaṃ yoga ucyate ||48||
v1Bhagavad Gītā mūla (ch. 1) — +4 loci 4 sense(s) drafted from 4 Gītā locus/loci.
Caveats
The corpus supplied is a single text and stratum: Bhagavad Gītā mūla, all four loci from chapter 2. No commentary (Gauḍapāda/Śaṅkara) loci were supplied, so no commentarial positions are attributed.
The two explicit definitions (samatva at 2.48, karmasu kauśalam at 2.50) are complementary glosses within the same passage, not a documented interpretive split; the entry is therefore marked not contested.
Senses are drawn only from usage within these four verses; broader Gītā or pan-Vedānta senses of yoga are outside the admissible evidence and are not imported.
Locus 2.53 as supplied reads 'avāpsyasyi'; treated as 'avāpsyasi' (you will attain) for sense-determination.