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Chapter 17
tadityanabhisandhaya phalam yajnatapakriyah
danakriya"sca vividhah kriyante moksakanksibhih
With the initial use of the word 'Tat,' the acts of sacrifice, penance and the various acts of charity are performed hy the seekers of salvation, without aiming at the rewards. 25
Comment:-
Tadityanabhisandhaya phalam yajaatapahkriyah danakriyasca vividhah kriyante moksakanksibhih:- All actions, such as sacrifice, penance and gifts etc., should be performed, in order to please God, without expecting any reward whatsoever. Every action, has a beginning and an end. Similarly, there is union and disunion, of its fruit. But the Lord ever remains the same, without undergoing any kind of change. So, the expression 'Tat' denotes, that the Lord ever remains, the some while the expression 'Anabhisandhaya phalam', denotes that all actions, and their fruits, are perishable. So a striver, should ever remember the everlasting Lord, and he should never aim, at the perishable rewards.
We cannot behold the Lord, Who ever pervades everywhere, because we assume the kaleidoscopic and perishable world, as real. So a striver, by having the aim of God-realization, and renouncing the feeings of 'I'ness and 'Mineness', should perform, the acts of sacrifice, penance and gift, by regarding them as His own, with the power given by Him, for His sake only. This is the real achievement of human life. So a striver, has to realize God, Who is known as Tat', and he has to renounce affinity, for the world which seems real.
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