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Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya
(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)
CHAPTER -3
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8. Do you perform obligatory action ; for action is superior to inaction ; indeed, even the bare maintenance of your body would not be possible by inaction. Do you perform obligatory action : That action which a person has the duty perform, which is prescribed by Śruti, not for obtaining a (specific) fruit, is the obligatory action (forthe person concerned). Do you perform it, O Arjuna! Why? For, action is superior to, productive of much more result than, inaction, the non-performance of action. How? Because, indeed even the bare maintenance of your body, supporting the body (by eating etc.), would not be possible, cannot be accomplished, by inaction, by remaining idle. Thus, the distinction between action and inaction is observable in practical experience. What you think : "because action leads to bondage, it should not be performed"-that also is wrong. Why? |
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