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Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya
Chapter-2 Sankhya Yogaḥ
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CommentaryBecause of the conviction that the Self is eternal, one does not grieve, when passing through the various physical transformations such as childhood, youth and old age etc., thinking that the Self is changing. Similarly, the wise, do not grieve when the Self passes into another body different from the present one. The eternal jīvas being conditioned by beginingless Karma, become endowed with bodies according to their particular Karmas[1]. To overcome this bondage [of transmigration caused by Karma], embodied beings should perform their duties like war and other vocations and rites prescribed by the Scripture and which are appropriate to their social circumstances without attachment to the results of those actions[2]. Even to such aspirants for liberation, contacts with sense-objects give pleasure and pain, arising from cold, heat and all such other things. But these experiences are to be endured as long as the works enjoined by the Scriptures are being performed. |
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References and Context
- ↑ All the conditions which we encounter in this life are the results of the accumulative actions done in our many pastlives.
- ↑ 29According to traditional Brahminical orthodoxy the way to liberation is to rid oneself of all Karmic consequences bypracticing complete disinterested action. Actions done merely as duty do not generate any fruit and thus after practicingthis discipline for many births one can finally rid oneself of all Karmic residue. The problem arises with there being noguarantee of continued practice in the next birth! Rāmānuja introduces this concept in order to refute it later.