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Gita Madhurya -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter XVIII
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What do You mean by saying that in the accomplishment of actions there are five causes? Actually the Atma (Spirit) is not the doer. All actions are performed with the body, mind and speech. But he who views the self as the doer is a man of imperfect understanding owing to his impure intellect.(16) What is the utility in viewing the Atma (the self) as the non-doer, O Lord? He, whose mind is free fom the notion of doership and whose reason is not affected by the fruit of action, even though he may kill the people, he does not kill, nor is he bound by sin.(17) When the soul (Atma) has no connection with actions, what are the incentives to action? Knowledge, the object of knowledge and knower—these form the threefold incentives to action; and the instrument, the action and the doer are the threefold constituents of action.(18) |
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