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Summary:
In this world there is a twofold path, the path of knowledge
and the path of action. Man cannot remain even
for a moment without performing some kind of action.
Everyone is helplessly driven to action by the qualities
born of nature. He who merely controls the organs of action but
continually thinks of the objects of senses is called a hypocrite.
On the other hand, he who controls the senses by the mind and engages his
actions, without attachment, is by far superior. Perform your prescribed duty, for action is better than inaction.
Chapter 2, Verse 47
karmany evadhikaras te
ma phalesu kadacana
ma karma-phala-hetur bhur
ma te sango 'stv akarmani
You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but
you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself to be the
cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing
your duty.
Chapter 2, Verse 48
yoga-sthah kuru karmani sangam tyaktva dhananjaya
siddhy-asiddhyoh samo bhutva
samatvam yoga ucyate
Be steadfast in yoga, O Arjuna. Perform your duty and
abandon all attachment to success or failure. Such evenness of mind is called
yoga.
Chapter 2, Verse 56
duhkhesv anudvigna-manah
sukhesu vigata-sprhah
vita-raga-bhaya-krodhah
sthita-dhir munir ucyate
One who is not disturbed in spite of the threefold miseries,
who is not elated when there is happiness, and who is free from attachment,
fear and anger, is called a sage of steady mind.
Chapter 2, Verse 61
tani sarvani samyamya
yukta asita mat-parah
vase hi yasyendriyani
tasya prajna pratisthita
One who restrains his senses and fixes his consciousness
upon the Lord, is known as a man of steady intelligence.
Chapter 2, Verse 63
krodhad bhavati sammohah
sammohat smrti-vibhramah
smrti-bhramsad buddhi-naso
buddhi-nasat pranasyati
From anger, delusion arises, and from delusion bewilderment
of memory. When memory is bewildered, intelligence is lost, and when
intelligence is lost, one falls down again into the material pool.
vihaya kaman yah sarvan
pumams carati nihsprhah
nirmamo nirahankarah
sa santim adhigacchati
A person who has given up all desires for sense
gratification, who lives free from desires, who has given up all sense of
proprietorship and is devoid of false ego--he alone can attain real peace.
Chapter 3, Verse 8
niyatam kuru karma tvam karma jyayo hy akarmanah
sarira-yatrapi ca te
na prasiddhyed akarmanah
Perform your prescribed duty, for action is better than
inaction. A man cannot even maintain his physical body without work.
Chapter 3, Verse 14
annad bhavanti bhutani parjanyad anna-sambhavah
yajnad bhavati parjanyo
yajnah karma-samudbhavah
All living bodies subsist on food grains, which are produced
from rains. Rains are produced by performance of action, and action is born of
prescribed duties.
Chapter 3, Verse 20
karmanaiva hi samsiddhim asthita janakadayah
loka-sangraham evapi
sampasyan kartum arhasi
Even kings like Janaka and others attained the perfectional
stage by performance of prescribed duties. Therefore, just for the sake of
educating the people in general, you should perform your work.
Kings like Janaka and others were all self-realized
souls; consequently they had no obligation to perform the prescribed duties in
the Vedas. Nonetheless they performed all prescribed activities just to set
examples for the people in general. Janaka was the father of Sita, and
father-in-law of Lord Sri Rama.
Chapter 3, Verse 30
mayi sarvani karmani
sannyasyadhyatma-cetasa
nirasir nirmamo bhutva
yudhyasva vigata-jvarah
Therefore, O Arjuna, surrendering all your works unto Me,
with mind intent on Me, and without desire for gain and free from egoism and
lethargy, fight.
Chapter 3, Verse 35
sreyan sva-dharmo vigunah
para-dharmat svanusthitat
sva-dharme nidhanam sreyah
para-dharmo bhayavahah
It is far better to discharge one's prescribed duties, even
though they may be faultily, than another's duties. Destruction in the course
of performing one's own duty is better than engaging in another's duties, for
to follow another's path is dangerous.
Chapter 3, Verse 42
indriyani parany ahur
indriyebhyah param manah
manasas tu para buddhir
yo buddheh paratas tu sah
The working senses are superior to dull matter; mind is
higher than the senses; intelligence is still higher than the mind; and he [the
soul] is even higher than the intelligence.
Chapter 3, Verse 43
evam buddheh param buddhva
samstabhyatmanam atmana
jahi satrum maha-baho
kama-rupam durasadam
Thus knowing oneself to be transcendental to material
senses, mind and intelligence, one should control the lower self by the higher
self and thus--by spiritual strength--conquer this insatiable enemy known as
lust.
Aum Namo Narayanaya
Aum Namo Narayanaya
Aum Namo Narayanaya
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