Gita Rahasya -Tilak 722

Srimad Bhagavadgita-Rahasya OR Karma-Yoga-Sastra -Bal Gangadhar Tilak

CHAPTER 3 SRIMAD BHAGAVADGITA एवं प्रवर्तितं चक्रं नानुवर्तयतीह य: । अघायुरिन्द्रियारामो मोघं पार्थ स जीवति ॥16॥ यस्त्वात्मरतिरेव स्यादात्मतृप्तश्च मानव: । आत्मन्येव च संतुष्टस्तस्य कार्यं न विद्यते ॥17॥ नैव तस्य कृतेनार्थो नाकृतेनेह कश्चन । न चास्य सर्वभूतेषु कश्चिदर्थव्यपाश्रय: ॥18॥ Translation:-(16) The life of that man who does not move the cycle; (that is, the cycle (cakra), whether of Action, or of sacrificial ritual), which has thus been started (for the maintenance of the world), is sinful; and the existence, O Partha ! of this slave of the senses (that is, of the person, who enjoys ail-by himself, without giving anything to the gods) is worthless. Description:- [It has thus been proved that sacrificial Action, or the respective duties of the four castes, have been created by Brahmadeva — and not by man — and that these duties are necessary both for keeping the world going on, as also for maintaining one self; and that, therefore, the Cycle of Sacrifice has got to be continually kept going on in this world, unattachedly, That is to say, I have shown how the Karma-kanda in the Mimamsa philosophy, or in the ' trayi dharma' has been left untouched in the Gita-religion by the device of the Unattached Reason. But some commentators belonging to the School of Renunciation take exception to this by saying that, as the Self-Knower obtains Release in this world, and as he has already acquired here all that is to be acquired, it is not necessary for him to perform any Action whatsoever in the world, nor should he perform Action. Therefore, the Blessed Lord now gives in the three following stanzas the answer of the Gits to that objection —] Translation:-(17) But, for the man who is merged only in the Atman, content in the Atman, and pleased with the Atman, nothing (as of his own) remains (in balance). (18) Similarly, here (that is, in this world) he has nothing to gain whether by doing or by not doing (any particular thing) ; and there is no purpose (as of his own) which is mixed up with all created beings;