Bhagavadgita -Radhakrishnan 115

The Bhagavadgita -S. Radhakrishnan

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CHAPTER 3
Karma Yoga or the Method of Work


22. na me partha 'sti kartavyam trisu lakesu kimcana
na 'navaptam avaptavyam varta eva ca karma ii
(22) There is not for me, 0 Partha (Arjuna), any work in the three worlds which has to be done nor anything to be
obtained which has not been obtained; yet I am engaged in work.
Life of God and life of the world are not opposed to each other.[1]

23 yadi hy aham na varteyarh jatu karmany atandritah
mama vartma 'nuvarante manusyah partha sarvasah
(23) For, if ever I did not engage in work unwearied, 0 Partha (Arjuna), men in every way follow my path.

24. utsideyur ime lokã na kuryam karma ced aham
samkarasya ca kart syam upahanyam imah prajah
(24) If I should cease to work, these worlds would fall in ruin and I should be the creator of disordered life and destroy these people.God, by His incessant activity, preserves the world and pre-vents it from falling back into non-existence.[2]

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References and Context

  1. ↑ C.p. M.B. In the name of my lordship, I slave for the whole world, dasyam aisvaryavadena jnatinam tu karomy ham.Cp. M B., III, 313, 17.tarko pratisthah árutayo vibhinna naiho munir yasya vacate pramanam
    dharrnasya tattvam mhitam guhayam mahajano yena gatah sa panthah.
  2. ↑ Cp St. Thomas: "As the production of a thing into existence depends on the will of God, so likewise it depends on His will that things should be preserved ; hence if He took away His action from them, all things would be reduced to nothing." Sunnma Theol. I, IX, 2c.

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The Bhagavadgita -S. Radhakrishnan
Chapter Chapter Name Page No.
Introductory Essay 1
1. The Hesitation and Despondency of Arjuna 63
2. Samkhya Theory and Yoga Practice 79
3. Karma Yoga or the Method of Work 107
4. The Way of Knowledge 124
5. True Renunciation 143
6. The True Yoga 152
7. God and the World 168
8. The Course of Cosmic Evolution 176
9. The Lord is more than His Creation 181
10. God is the Source of All; to Know Him is to Know All 192
11. The Lord's Transfiguration 200
12. Worship of the Personal Lord is better than meditation of the Absolute 211
13. The Body called the Field, the Soul called the Knower of the Field and Discrimination between them 215
14. The Mystical Father oF All Beings 222
15. The Tree of Life 227
16. The Nature of the Godlike and the Demoniac Mind 231
17. The Three Modes Applied to Religious Phenomena 235
18. Conclusion 239
19. Last Page 254
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