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Gita Madhurya -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter III
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Surrendering all actions to Me by discriminative intellect freed from hope and feeling of mineness and cured of mental fever, engage in battle (duty).(30) What will happen by surrendering actions to You? Those men, who, with an uncavilling and devout mind, follow this doctrine of mine, are freed from the binding effect of all actions.(31) What happens if people don't follow the doctrine of Yours? Those, who finding fault with this doctrine of Mine, don't follow it. know those deluded fools devoid of discrimination to be ruined.(32) How are they ruined by not following your doctrine? The wise men perform actions in conformity with their pure nature being free from attachment and aversion. But they (the fools) perform actions in conformity with their impure nature having attachment and aversion: therefore scriptural injunctions are of no avail to them and thus they, guided by their impure nature. are ruined.(33) How should a man save himself from this ruin, O Lord? Attachment and aversion are rooted in all sense-objects. A man should not perform actions under their sway, because they are his enemies.(34) Then what should a man do? A man should discharge his duty, because one's own duty. though devoid of merit, is preferable to the duty of another well discharged. Even death in the performance of one's own duty brings blessedness, while the duty of another, even though meritorious is full of fear.(35) |
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