Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-18
Release
12. Undesired, desired and mixed – such is the three-fold fruit of action; it accrues to the non-relinquisher after death, but never to those who renounce it. Action, O Arjuna, is of three kinds and it is required to be experienced only by those who do not relinquish the desire for the fruit of action. When the father gives away his daughter in marriage saying, ‘she is no more mine’, he becomes free from his responsibility for her, but the son-in-law who accepts her, becomes entrapped. Those who sell their stocks of poison, live happily on their sale-proceeds, but those who purchase it at a heavy price and swallow it, lose their lives (231-235). Action does not bind either him who performs it without egoistic feeling that he is doer or him who relinquishes its fruit. He who desires to obtain the fruit of a tree on the roadside gets it; in the same way, only he who craves for the fruit of action gets it. He who performs actions but relinquishes their fruit, is not reborn in any of the three worlds, because all the three worlds are the fruits of actions. Gods, men and the stationary things constitute the world and all the three result from the three kinds of actions. Action is of three kinds, undesired, desired and mixed (236-240). Those who are attached to sensuous pleasures perform evil actions, which are prohibited and are reborn into bodies of the very lowest order such as vermin, insects and the earth. |
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