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Chapter 2
Link:- In the next verse, Lord Krsna explains the superiority of equanimity (which has been described from the thirty-ninth verse to the forty-eighth verse) to a motivated action viz., action with a selfish motive.
durena hyavaram karma buddhiyogaddhananjaya
buddhau saranamanviccha krpanah phalahetavah
O Dhananjaya, action with a selfish motive is far inferior to that performed with equanimity of mind. Seek refuge in this evenness of mind, for low are those, who crave for fruit of action. 49
Comment:-
Durena hyavaram karma buddhiyogat:-Action with a selfish motive is, far inferior to that performed with equanimity of mind. Actions have a beginning and an end and connection with their fruits, is also temporary. We get associated and dissociated with them. But Yoga (equanimity) is eternal, it never deserts as, it suffers no change. Therefore, selfish action is much inferior to equanimity.
Action without equanimity, mislead to pain, as well as to the cycle of birth and death, because they have no power to lead one to salvation. Equanimity is the ability to neutralize actions. If there is no equanimity, one will develop one's egoism and attachment, to the body. This egoism and attachment are beastly. In the Bhagavata sage Sukadeva says to king Pariksit, '0 king, renounce this beastly nature which is causing fear of death in you' (12/5/2).
'Durena'—As light is the contrary of darkness, an action performed with equanimity of mind, is contrary to the action performed with a selfish motive. An action performed with equanimity leads to God-realization, while motivated actions mislead to the wheel of birth and death.
'Buddhau saragamanviccha'— Seek refuge in this evenness of mind viz., remain established in this evenness of mind, which will enable you to realize yourself.
'Krpanah phatahetavah'—It is very lowly to crave for fruit of action. To accept one's affinity for actions, fruits of actions and bodies etc., means, to crave for fruit of action. Therefore, Lord Krsna, in the forty-seventh verse, exhorts Arjuna not to have the fruit of action, as his object.
The eternal truth is different from perishable action and the fruit of action. What can be more ignoble than this, that the eternal should be subservient to the perishable fruit of action?
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