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Bhagavad Gita -Sri Madhvacharya
(Bhashya and Tatparya Nirnaya)
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Chapter 3
Karma Yoga
By performing actions in this manner, one becomes a man of non-Action. Thus has it also been clarified further in the latter part of this verse. Asceticism (Sanyaas) is “कामपरित्याग:” relinquishing desire bound actions. By actions performed without desires and with purified heart and wisdom, liberation comes about. Therefore it has been said in Bhagavat Puraana that for the one has become luminous purified by actions, renunciation comes about in the heart. Only he who is free from attachment is known as the man of wisdom thus in Bhagavat Puraana. The state of being liberated comes about by not being bound by desires, which are known as 'appropriate and inappropriate actions'. Indeed absence of desires in action results in the fruit of Liberation. Just as the one who, seeing things in dreams, does not consider giving up the pleasures of a householder, even so for such one there is neither clarity of the principles nor of the Vedic injunctions. Not by mere absence of the fruits (of actions), nor even by the absence of the actions themselves, for renunciation of the actions by themselves cannot be the means of deliverance. The asceticism is primarily for concentrated reflection and communion with the Resplendent Lord. Because, verily, uncontrolled is the mind of the householders, they being engrossed in other functions. |
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