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Chapter 12
abhyase'pyasamartho'si matkarmaparamo bhava
madarthamapi karmapi kurvansiddhimavapsyasi
If you are unable to practise as above said, be thou intent on performing ordained actions for Me; and thus doing selfless actions for My sake, thou shalt achieve perfection. 10
Comment:-
Abhyase'pyasamartho'si matkarmaparamo bhava:- Here the term 'Abhylse', stands for 'Abhyasayoga', described in the preceding verse. In the Gita, the topic of preceding verse, is described in brief, in the next verse. The topic of fixing the mind on Him, and the intellect in Him, described in the eighth verse, was mentioned in the ninth verse, by the expression 'to fix the mind', which also includes intellect. In the same way the term 'Abhyase, (in the tenth verse), has been used for 'Abhyasayoga' as in the ninth verse.
The Lord declares, that if he is unable to practise as described, in the preceding verse, he should work for His sake. It means, that all actions (according to one's caste, order of life, for earning livelihood and for maintenance of the body, as well as, adoration, meditation and chanting of His name, and other spiritual activities) should, instead of being performed for mundane pleasure and prosperity, be performed, only for God-realization. Actions which are performed, for God-realization according to His direction, are called 'Matkarma, and a striver who is intent on performing actions, for His sake, is' Matkarmaparama. Such a striver, should have his affinity, only for God, and his activities should also be performed, only for God.
When a striver, ceases to hanker after mundane pleasure and prosperity, the forbidden actions, are totally renounced by him, because it is desire which tends a man, to perform forbidden actions (Gita 3/37). Therefore, when a striver decides on God-realization, as the aim, all his actions are in accordance with, scriptural injunctions and they are performed for the sake of God, only.
Madarthamapi karmani kurvansiddhimavapsyasi:- Whatever has been said, in the first half of the verse by the expression 'Matkarmaparamo bhava', has been repeated in the second half. When a striver, performs actions only for His sake, he attains, perfection or God-realization.
As the Lord, in the eighth verse, explained fixation of the mind on Him, and the intellect in Him, the independent means of God-realization, and, in the ninth verse, the constant practice of divine name etc., the independent means to realize Him, so does He mention here the performance of actions for His sake, as the independent means to realize him.
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