Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 360

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

CHAPTER 6 The Yog of Meditation श्रीभगवानुवाच अनाश्रित: कर्मफलं कार्यं कर्म करोति य:। स सन्न्यासी च योगी च न निरग्निर्न चाक्रिय:॥1॥ [ ‘‘The Lord said, ‘The man who performs the ordained task without desiring its fruits, rather than the one who just gives up (lighting) the sacred fire or action, is a sanyasi and a yogi.’’’ ] Krishn insists that only that man who has made true renunciation or achieved yog who engages in the one action that is worthy of doing with absolutely no desire for any rewards. No one becomes a sanyasi or a yogi by just desisting from the ordained action. There are many kinds of work, but out of them the action which is fit to be undertaken and which is ordained is only one. And this one action is yagya which means “worship,” the one means for the attainment of God. The practice of it is action; and the man who does it is a sanyasi and a yogi. If a man has just stopped lighting fire or tells himself complacently that he has no use for action because he possesses Self-knowledge, he is neither a sanyasi nor a doer of selfless action. Krishn further speaks about this: