30. maya sarvdam karmam
samnyasya 'dhydtmacetasa
mrasirr Izirmamo bhCava
yudhyasvc vigatajvarai
(30) Resigning all thy works to Me, with thy consciousness fixed in the Self, being free from desire and egoism, fight, delivered from thy fever. By self-surrender to the Lord who presides over cosmic existence, and activity, we must engage in work. "Thy will be done" is to be our attitude in all work. We must do the work with the sense that we are the servants of the Lord.[1]
See XVIII, 59-60 and 66.
31. ye me matam idam nityam
anuti. thanti manavah
sraddhavanto 'nasilyanto
mucyante to 'pi karmabhih
(31) Those men, too, who, full of faith and free from cavil, constantly follow this teaching of Mine are released from (the bondage of) works.
32. ye tv etad abhyasuyanto
na 'nutistlianti me matam
sarvajnanavimiidhams tan
vtiddhi natan acetasah
(32) But those who slight My teaching and do not follow it, know them to be blind to all wisdom, lost and senseless.
Nature and Duty
33. sadrsam cestate svasyah
prakrter jnanavan api
prakritm yang bhutam
manavah kim x karisyati
(33) Even the man of knowledge acts in accordance with his own nature. Beings follow their nature. What can repression accomplish. Prakrti is the mental equipment with which one is born, as the result of the past acts.[2] This must run its course. S. thinks that even God cannot prevent its operation. Even He ordains that the past deeds produce their natural effects[3] Restraint cannot avail since actions flow inevitably from the workings of prakrti and the self is only an impartial witness.
