Srimad Bhagavadgita-Rahasya OR Karma-Yoga-Sastra -Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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CHAPTER 18
Description:-Nay! some words have even been taken from that description. For instance, the word 'parigraha' in stanza 53 has appeared in the description of the yogin in chapter VI[1]; the words "na socali na kanksati" In stanza 54, are to be found in the description of the path of devotion in chapter XII[2]; and the words "remaining in a 'vivikta', that is, a chosen (solitary) place", have appeared before in[3]. As this final state, attained by the Karma-Yogin, is the same as the final state reached by the karma-samnyasin, from the purely mental point of view, commentators, subscribing to the path of renunciation, have got a chance of imagining that these descriptions support their school. But I have stated any number of times before that this procedure is not correct. To proceed: the blessed lord has, in the beginning of this chapter, (1) defined 'samnyasa' by stating, that samnyasa does not mean 'Abandonment of Action'; but means 'Abandon-ment of the Hope of Fruit'; and (2) maintained that Actions, such as giving up of food etc., whether they are kamya, nitya, or naimittika, must be performed like other Actions, without the Hope of Fruit, enthusiastically, and with an equable frame of mind; and thereafter, He has explained the doctrine laid down by the Gita by saying that (1) although the various matters in the world, such as karma karta, buddhi etc., may be diverse as a result of the difference of qualities, yet, the sattvika quality is the best of all; that (2) in performing, unattachedly all the Actions, which have befallen anybody on account of his own-status, according to the four-class-arrangement, one thereby sacrifices to, and performs the worship of, the paramesvara and thereby gradually acquires the parabrahman or Release; that (3) no other practice nor samnyasa in the form of Abandonment of Action is necessary for obtaining Release; and that (4)by Karma-Yoga alone, all states of perfection including Release are to be had. Now the Blessed lord again and finally advises Arjuna to accept this path of Karma-Yoga_] |
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