Srimad Bhagavadgita Sadhaka Sanjivani -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter 2
Ma karmaphalaheturbbuh:-Let you not be responsible for the fruits of action. It means, that you should not have the least attachment for the body, senses, mind and intellect etc., because attachment for these will make you responsible for the fruit of action. In the eleventh verse of the fifth chapter also, Lord Krsna by using the term 'Kevalaih' (only) wants to say that me follower of the Discipline of Disinterested Action, should abandon feeling of mineness for the body, mind, intellect and senses.
If a striver becomes the agent (doer) of a virtuous action, even without having a desire for its fruit, he is held responsible for the fruit of the action, because by doing so he has accepted his affinity for the mind, intellect and senses etc., which are unreal. Actually, we have no affinity with them, they have their affinity with the world. When anybody else performs action for the good of others, we do not accept our affinity for the action and its fruit and so are not held responsible. We should adopt the same attitude in the case of our own actions also, so mat we may not be held responsible for the fruit of actions.
It means that, by leaning towards inaction you will have affinity to tamasika temperament, such as idleness and laziness. By having attachment for action and its fruit you will have affinity for rajasika temperament. But when a striver is free from laziness, idleness, actions, fruit of actions, etc., he gets the joy born of knowledge and light and having allachment for it, he has affinity to sattvika temperament. Affinity with these is the cause of birth and death. Therefore, a striver should not have attachment for either of them. Doing one's duty without having any attachment to them, is called the Discipline of Disinterested Action.
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