Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya 110

Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya

Chapter-3 Karma Yogaḥ

mayi sarvāṇi karmāṇi sanyasyādhyātma-cetasā | nirāśīr-nir-mamo bhūtvā yudhyasva vigata-jvaraḥ || 30 || 30. Dedicating all your actions to Me with a mind centred in the Self, free from desire and selfishness, free from hot-headedness, do you engage in battle. Commentary Perform all your prescribed duties free from desire or selfishness and devoid of fear, with a mind focussed on the ātman. Dedicate all acts to Me, the Lord of all, who constitutes the inner pervading Self of all beings. 'Adhyatma-cetas' is that mind which is focussed on the Self through awareness of the essential nature of the Self. This individual Self (Jīvātman) constitutes the "body" of the Supreme Self and is activated by Him. This is taught by Vedic texts like:— 'He who has entered within, is the ruler of all beings and is the Self of all' 'Him who has entered within and is the doer' 'He who, dwelling in the Self is within the Self, whom the Self does not know, whose body the Self is, who controls the Self from within — he is your Internal Ruler and immortal Self' Smrti texts also state the same thing — ' Him who is the ruler of all' . Sri Krishna will teach later on:— 'And I am seated in the hearts of all; from Me are memory, knowledge and the faculty of reason' ; 'The Lord, O Arjuna, lives in the heart of everything causing them to spin around and around by His power, as if set on a wheel. . Hence, dedicate all actions to Me, the Supreme Being, considering Me to be the [ultimate] agent, by contemplating on the ātman as activated by Me alone, because it is My manifestation. And do all duties, considering them as acts of worship only; free from the desire for rewards, and therefore free from selfishness, devoid of 'hot-headedness', that is stimulation caused by passions like anger. Contemplate that the Supreme Being the Lord of all, Principal of all, causes His own works to be done only for the purpose of having Himself worshipped by His own instruments, viz. the individual Jīvas belong to Him and are His agents. Free yourself from feverish concern originating from ideas like — 'What will become of me with an ancient, endless accumulation of karma arising from beginingless time?' Perform Karma Yoga with ease, for the Supreme Being Himself, propitiated by all acts, will free you from bondage. His Lordship and Principalship over all are verified by Vedic texts.