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Chapter 2
A Karmayogi performs action to set an example, to the masses (Gita 3/20) without any selfish motive. By doing so, he attains equanimity, easily. Having attained equanimity, he is easily liberated, from the bondage of actions.
This (Thirty-ninth) verse, should have been placed after the thirtieth verse, as it rightly belonged there, because from the eleventh verse to the thirtieth verse, the Lord explained even-mindedness, from the view-point of the Discipline of Knowledge, and now He describes it from the view of Discipline of Action. So it seems improper, to insert these eight verses, from the thirty-first to the thirty-eighth, here. But really it is not so. The reason is, that before describing equanimity in the Discipline of Action, it is necessary to describe, what one ought to do and what one ought not to do. It was Arjuna's duty, to wage a righteous war. It was not his duty to abandon war, because by doing so, he would incur sin. So Lord Krsna, in these eight verses, described what Atjuna ought to do and what he ought not to do (2/31-38). Then, he explained equanimity. It means, that first from the eleventh verse to the thirtieth verse, he explained equanimity, through as elucidation of the real and the unreal, by mentioning that the real is real and the unreal is unreal and none can change these. Then, from the thirty-first verse to the thirty-eighth verse, havingexplained what one ought to do, and what one ought not, from the thirty-ninth verse, He exhorts Arjuna never to desist from his duty, but to always perform duty with even-mindedness, in success and failure.
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