YogAmRRitaM by R. Visvanatha Sastri - 14

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yaj~nArthaM karma kartavyaM iti shAstreShu coditaM .

nAhaM karomi niShkAmaH iti karma samAcara .. 151 ..

 

pUrNo.ahaM ca tathAsa~NgI iti karma samAcara .

kRRitaM shreShTaishca vidvadbhiH iti karma samAcara .. 152

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prakRRityA kriyate karma iti karma samAcara .

guNA guNeShu vartante iti karma samAcara .. 153 ..

 

mayi saMnyasyate sarvaM iti karma samAcara .

nistraiguNyasthitashcAhaM iti karma samAcara .. 154 ..

 

tayorna vashamAgacchhediti karma samAcara .

svadharmAkaraNe doShaH iti karma samAcara .. 155 ..

 

shatruH kAmo nihantavya iti karma samAcara .

gItAmRRitodadhirayamiti karma samAcara .. 156 ..

 

yatheShTAcaraNaM pApamiti karma samAcara .

j~nAnAgni dagdha-karmAhaM iti karma samAcara .. 157 ..

 

gatasa~Ngashca mukto.ahaM iti karma samAcara .

ayaj~nasya ca no lokA iti karma samAcara .. 158 ..

 

Do works. But why and how? Because the shastras have told

us to do works as a yajna. I am not doing anything. I have

no desires. I am Infinite; I have no attachments. It is the

guNas that involve themselves with other guNas. Everything

merges in me. I am ever fixed beyond the three guNas. I

shall not get into their clutches. If the svadharma is not

done that is a default. It is Desire that is the enemy.

That has to be vanquished. This Fullness of mine is the

Ocean of Gita-nectar. Working according to the whims of the

lower self is sin. All actions are consumed in the Fire of

Knowledge. Thus shall you do works and thus only shall you

do works.

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j~nAnayaj~ne sarva-huti nAhaM karteti dhIradhIH .

j~nAnAsinA yoganiShTaH shokamohau taratyathoM .. 159 ..

 

Everything shall be offered to the yajna-fire of Knowledge.

The wise man, cuts asunder sorrow and delusion by the sword

of Knowledge, that is, by the attitude of

‘I-am-not-the-doer’.

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ahaMkAraH nAtmAnamAvArayituM shaknoti . AvArayati cet

svayamapyaprakAsho bhavati .

niShkAma-karmAnuShTAnArambha-kAla eva ahaM niShkAma iti

manaH svAsthyaM svashuddhatva-viShaye apekShyate

karmA~Ngatvena . sva-kartRRitva-bhAvanAM vihAyaiva karma

kuryAt iti shAsyate . karmAnuShTAna-kAle.api yaj~na eva

ijyate ArAdhyate iti sadA vicArayet .

jIveshvara-jagadapavAdena svasvarUpAvasheShaNArthaM satAM

saMgaH nissaMgatAsiddhyai sadA sevyA iti satsu pravartayati

bhagavAn . yatra sarvaM bhUyate iti sarva-hRRidyaj~naH

sUktoktaH ..

 

The ego cannot engulf the Atman. If it does so it does it

to itself also. Even as one starts doing his karma

desirelessly, right at the beginning, one fixes one’s mind

on the subject of Pure Consciousness as if it is part of

the very karma that is being performed. The injunction is

that one should do works only after abandoning the agency

of the action. The doing of rituals also has to be done as

a yajna in the same manner. The superimposition of the

universe on the Reality, has to be discarded. It is only

by the association with noble souls that this can be

achieved. (I am leaving the last sentence untranslated ..

VK)

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PrNAms to all advaitins and to my father.

profvk