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Gita Madhurya -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter II
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What will be the result if a person does so? One, who has obtained enlightenment, has the same use for the Vedas and the scriptures as one has for a small reservoir of water in a place flooded with water on all sides. He does not attach any importance to the worldly pleasures.(46) Is there any method for me to attain such a state? Yes, Karmayoga is there. In Karmayoga (Discipline of disinterested action) one's right is to perform one's duty without laying claim to its fruit. One should not be the producer of the fruits of action viz., one should not be attached to one's body, senses, mind and intellect. Then why should I perform actions? You should not be attached to inaction too.(47) Then how should I perform actions? Equanimity in success and failure is Yoga. Therefore O Dhananjaya (Arjuna) perform actions being fixed in Yoga, relinquishing attachment.(48) What will happen, if I don't perform actions by being fixed in Yoga (equanimity)? Action with a selfish motive is far inferior to this Yoga in the form of equanimity. So seek refuge in this evenness of mind; for wretched are those who crave for fruit of action viz., they are slaves to the fruit of action.(49) If the result seekers are wretched, who are noble? 'Those who are endowed with equanimity, are noble. Endowed with equanimity, one frees oneself from vice and virtue. Therefore, be fixed in equanimity. Skill in actions lies in equanimity.(50) |
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