Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-12
Bhaktiyoga
10. If you are not capable of this repeated Yoga, then be intent on working for Me; performing actions for My sake alone, you will attain to perfection. If you do not possess the capacity to take up this Yoga of practice, then keep your life-style as it is. Do not restrain the senses, do not scale down your sensual enjoyment and do not give up the pride of your caste (111-115). Follow your family customs, observe the rules laid down by the scriptures and shun actions prohibited by them. Then you are free to follow your own course of action. But whatever work you do, by means of the body, speech and mind, do not say, ‘I am doing this’. The Supreme Being, under whose authority, all the worldly affairs are carried on, knows what is action and what is non-action. If a work is not completed, then do not brood over it but adopt the style of life, which conforms to your caste. Just as water follows the course as devised by the gardener, you also perform your action, renouncing egoistic feeling (116-120). Then your intellect does not have to bear the burden of deciding what one ought to do or avoid doing, so that the heart remains fixed on Me, without interruption. O Arjuna, does the carriage ever bother about whether the road is straight or crooked? Therefore, whatever work you do, whether it is perfunctory or perfect, dedicate it to Me quietly. In this manner, O Arjuna, if you perform actions with devotion, you will attain the highest form of liberation, namely identification with Me. |
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