Chapter 5 opens with Arjuna expressing renewed confusion over Krishna's seeming contradictions. He addresses Krishna, saying: First you praise the renunciation of actions (sannyāsaṃ karmaṇāṃ kṛṣṇa), and then again (punar) you praise the Yoga of action (yogaṃ ca śaṃsasi). Arjuna demands a binary answer: Tell me definitively (tan me brūhi suniścitam) which one of these two (etayor ekaṃ) is actually the most beneficial or superior (yac chreya).