Digest Number 2269 (Results of Actions)

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Namaste Shri Jayaram.

 

We have discussed this topic here before on several occasions and

there was some dispute regarding performing actions without desire.

 

Swamiji's interpretation is very sensible. While maintaining that

the Lord is the one and only bestower of results, he advises us to

accept the results with prasAdabuddhi. When we perform a *legitimate

and dhArmic* action, we defintely have a desire for *legitimate and

dhArmic results*. VyAsa wouldn't have written the Bhagavad GItA

without having a *legitimate* desire that someone read it. When the

result comes, it can be what you expected, opposite of what you

expected, less or more than what you expected. Karma YOga demands of

us to accept the result, whatever it is, with prasAda buddhi like we

accept the Lord's prasAda from the temple priest without complaining

about the item so given. We do so because we acknowledge that the

prasAda comes from the Lord (i.e. it is Lord's prasAda) and not the

temple priest.

 

I have also seen that wall poster written in Hindi and often wondered

to which verse in the Bhagavad GItA it refers. Perhaps, that is a

sort of summary (saar as it is called) of the whole book and a very

personal interpretation of the person who authored it.

 

PraNAms.

 

Madathil Nair

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advaitin, "Achupichu" <achupichuasadu@h...>

wrote:

> I have heard from the discourses of Sri Sri Dayananda Saraswati

swamiji that

> Krishna never says that we are NOT ENTITLED for the fruits of

action.

> Krishna says that the selection of fruits of action is not in our

hands but

> depends on the Lord Krishna...............

 

> On this subject, There is one famous wall-poster which is hung /

displayed

> on many homes of India in many languages. I don't know who created

this but

> it is called "Geeta Saar". This starts by saying "What you have

brought

> here and what you are going to take it away ..." etc. I read once

from Sri

> Cho Ramaswamy that Swamiji has told him there is no such saying in

Geeta

> like that. This is also one of the falsehood.

>..........