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CHAPTER 18
SRIMAD BHAGAVADGITA
स्वे स्वे कर्मण्यभिरत: संसिद्धिं लभते नर: ।
स्वकर्मनिरत: सिद्धिं यथा विन्दति तच्छृणु ।। 45 ।।
यत: प्रवृत्तिर्भूतानां येन सर्वमिदं ततम् ।
स्वकर्मणा तमभ्यर्च्य सिद्धिं विन्दति मानव: ।। 46 ।।
Translation:- (45) That man, who is engrossed in the performance of
his own duties (which have befallen him as a result of in-herently natural qualities) acquires (by that alone) ultimate
highest Perfection. Hear, how a man acquires Perfection by
adhering to his own duties. (46) When a man, (not merely
by speech or flowers, but) by performing the Actions which
befall him (according to his own religion), worships That,
from Which all created beings have sprung, and Which has
pervaded or occupied the whole of this Cosmos, he (merely
thereby) attains Perfection.
Description:-[The Blessed Lord has explained that performing desirelessly,
and with the idea of dedicating to the Paramesvara,
the various duties, which befall one as a result of the four-class-arrangement,
is a kind of worship of the Virata-formed
Paramesvara, and leads to Perfection[1].
But this duty, which has befallen one as a result
of the division of Action according to divergent qualities,
may appear faulty, undesirable, difficult, or unlikeable
from another point of view. For instance, in the present
case, the religion of Ksatriyas may appear faulty, because
it entails killing. Therefore, the reply to the questions,
(i) whether, in these circumstances, a man should give up
his own religion and accept another religion[2]; or
(ii) should perform his own duties under any circumstances
and (iii) if so, how he should perform them, is now given
by iising the same argument as was used in the beginning
of this Chapter in dealing with Actions likes Yajnas and
Yagas— ]
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