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Chapter 12
Attachment to actions and desire for fruits, lead a man to bondage, otherwise he is easily liberated, from worldly bondage.
The body, senses, mind, intellect, ability, power and other objects, which a man possesses, have been acquired from the world. So a 'Karmayogi', without regarding these as his, and for him, utilizes these in rendering service to the world, without any selfish motive. Thus their flow is towards the world and then having renounced affinity totally for the world, he realizes, his natural affinity for God, which is eternal. So a Karmayogi, need not meditate on God. Moreover, if he wants to practise meditation, he can do it very easily, as he has no mundane desires, while a striver, with desire, faces difficulty in meditation.
In the sixth chapter, (in the topic of meditation) the Lord explains, that when the mind restrained by the practice of meditation, gets established, in the Supreme Self and it becomes free from all desires. The mind being matter cannot grasp sentient, God. Therefore, on its affinity being cut asunder from the self, he (the self) gets established in God, (Gila 6/18, 20), while a Karmayogi, having renounced all desires, immediately gets established in God (Gita 2/55). The reason is, that in meditation, the mind is concentrated on God, therefore, due to dependence on the mind (matter) he (the self), has affinity for matter, for a long time. But in Karmayoga, desire and attachment (matter), are renounced and so attachment for the mind, is also naturally renounced, and he attains Him, very easily and quickly. Thus Karmayoga, is better than meditation.
'Nothing is mine, nothing is required for me, and nothing is to be done for me' - this is the gist of Katmayoga, and so it
is superior, to other paths (Gita 5/2).
Tyagacchsntiranantaram:- Here the term 'Tyagat', has been used, for the renunciation of fruit of action.
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