CH 4, Verse 23

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Chapter 4

Verse 23

 

Gata-saNgasya muktasya Jnaan'aavasthita-chetasaH /

yajnaay'aacharataH karma samagraM pravileeyate //

 

Devoid of attachment, liberated, with mind established

in knowledge, performing work in the spirit of

sacrifice, (yagna) his whole action dissolves away.

 

 

LESSONS FROM BHAGAVAD GITA – 37

As taught by Parama Pujya Sri Swamiji

Compiled by: Swami Dattananda

Bhakti Mala, December 1995

 

The man of realization works with full equanimity in

success and failure. His ideal is that he should work

for the sake of work. He is unconcerned with the

results. The work itself is its own reward, and as

such, he is not bound by the law of action and

reaction. By following this way, everyone can help

oneself to come out of the clutches of the law of

karma.

 

The sage of realization takes care of his body, not

due to his attachment for it, but because it is

through that body that he can perform action aimed at

the welfare of the world and it is through that body

he has to uplift other souls living in other bodies.

Unconcerned about reward or punishment and success and

failure, he goes on performing his work ceaselessly.

 

“Devoid of attachment, liberated, with mind

established in knowledge, performing work in the

spirit of sacrifice, (yagna,) his whole action

dissolves away” (Chapter 4, Verse 23).

 

The self-realized sage undertakes and performs a work

without any attachment to its fruits. His mind is

established in the true knowledge of the Supreme. His

only aim is the welfare of the world and he works only

with that motive. So all his works are like

sacrifices, (yagna,) or free offerings to the world.

And because of the principle of sacrifice involved in

his work, all his actions are equal to no actions in

the matter of creating reactions. This is the meaning

of the sentence of all his action dissolves away. To

be able to follow this statement, it is necessary to

understand what these sacrifices are, and that is what

the following verses say.

 

 

 

 

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