Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-12
Bhaktiyoga
11. If you are incapable of resorting to disinterested action for My sake also, then relinquish the fruit of all actions, being self-restrained. O Partha, should you not be able to perform actions for My sake then think along these lines (121-125). If you think it difficult to dedicate your action to Me, before you resolve to do it or after, before you undertake it or later, then leave it alone. Even if I have pressed you to perform actions for My sake and dedicate them to Me, you need not do so. Restrain your intellect and whenever you undertake any actions, abandon all thought about their fruit. Just as the trees and creepers drop down their fruits, you should also relinquish the fruits of the actions performed by you. You need not resolve to undertake such actions and perform them for My sake, but let them go into the void (126-130). Like the rain fallen on a rock, a seed sown in fire or a dream seen in sleep, let all such actions be fruitless. O Partha, Just as a father does not entertain lewd desire for his daughter, be you desireless for the fruits of your actions. Let your actions become void, as the flames go waste in the sky. O Arjuna, renunciation of fruit may appear to you as an easy path, yet it is the foremost among the Yoga’s. Just as a bamboo tree becomes barren once it yields fruit, so the actions do not sprout on the relinquishment of their fruit (131-135). Then even in the present life, physical activities come to a stop and there is an end to the cycle of births and deaths. O Arjuna, one attains knowledge through study and meditation, then the different mental states become merged in meditation, after which all actions stop of their own accord. With the stoppage of activity, renunciation of fruit automatically comes, resulting in peace of mind. This is the only course open, O Partha, to attain serenity of mind; therefore you should undertake scriptural study first (136-140).
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