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Chapter 3
The feelings of rendering selfless service, Self-realization and God-realization, are aims, rather than desires, while the feeling to acquire perishable objects, is dcsire.Therefore, it is wrong to think, that a man is not inclined to act without desire. Actions are performed scrupulously, in order to attain one's aim.
Man (soul), is a fragment of God but his disinclination for God and inclination towards the world; gives birth to necessity, as well as, desires. When he totally renounces his assumed affinity for the world, his necessity is fulfilled, and he gets rid of desires.
Nirasirnirmamo bhutva yudhyasva vigatajvarah:-When all actions and objects are surrendered to God, even then a fragment of desire as the sense of mine and grief, can remain. For example, if we offer a book to someone, and we see him studying that book, we think that he is studying the book, given by as. In order to free us from this minor attachment, the Lord urges us not to have a desire to acquire anything, nor to be attached to the acquired things and not to be grieved for the things lost. The criterion for surrender is, that a striver has no fragment of desire, no feeling of mine and no grief.
When a striver surrenders all actions and objects to God, sometimes because of past impressions (influences), he feels that he has not got rid of desire, the sense of mineness and grief. Such a striver need not lose heart, because only he who perceives desire, the sense of mineness and grief, becomes free of them. Similar, is the case with egoism. Every human being fully deserves to get rid of desire, and a sense of mine and grief.
In the whole Gita the term ',Nara' (mental fever viz., grief) has only been used hem. In a war, a warrior is grieved at the death of his kith and kin. Therefore, Lord Krsna directs Arjuna to fight, delivered from grief, as his duty as a member of the warrior class. The Lord, means to say that a striver should perform his duty by surrendering it to God, and being free from desire, a sense of mineness and grief. Remaining equanimous in success and failure, pleasure and pain, a sense of mineness and aversion etc., is known as a state of 'Vigatajvarah' (freedom from grief). In fact, all the mental defects, such as a sense of mineness, aversion, worry, agitation and turmoil etc., are included in, 'Jvara'.
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