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Chapter 6
INTRODUCTION
Na niragnih:—By forgoing household fire viz., 'Havana and sense-objects etc., a person, is not a Sannyasi in the real sense. Till he has importance and attraction for material objects, he cannot be a real Sannyasi.
Na akriyah:—Generally, people think that a Yogi, is he who abandons all things and actions, and leads a secluded life in a state of trance. But, Lord Krsna wants to say, that a Yogi, is he who discharges his duty, by ceasing to depend on the perishable viz., without expecting any fruit from action. A secluded life, with senses under control, may inspire man to attain some accomplishments (Siddhi), but it cannot lead him to God-realization. By merely discarding actions physically, he cannot be called, a Karmayogi. A Yogi, in the real sense, is he who performs his duty and having no dependence at all, on perishable objects.
A man, has an instinct for action. So sometimes, it is observed that good strivers who attempted to devote themselves to adoration and meditation in solitude, had to engage themselves in performing actions, for the welfare of others, by giving up their secluded life. The momentum of the impulse for action, is pacified, only when actions are performed selflessly solely for the welfare of others. In that case, equanimity is attained and that equanimity leads to God-realization.
An Exceptional Fact
The feelings, of egoism (1'ness) and attachment or Mineness, are man-made. First, a man accepts that he is a householder, but when he becomes a Sadhu, he says that he is a Sadhu. Thus his egoism changes. Similarly, he has attachment for a thing which he possesses. But, when he gives it to someone, permanently, he has no attachment left for it. It proves, that feelings of egoism and attachment, are not real but are only assumed. Had they been real, these might not have ceased to be, because 'The real, never ceases to be' and if it ceases to be, it means that it is not real, but is unreal, as 'The unreal has no existence' (Gita 2/16).
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