[Guruvayur/Guruvayoor] I don't know....True Veenaji...

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HARI AUM

 

True Veenaji. While explaining the stanza the words

used may not be bringing out the intentional meaning.

As you said it could be a possibility.

 

Being a group dedicated to Bhagavan and his abode at

Guruvayur, we can have more pages on his 'Gita' in the

forum as well as the 'Navaneetham'.

 

Hope your page will reappear in 'Navaneetham' soon.

 

Thanks and Regards

 

Balagopal

 

NARAYANA NARAYANA NARAYANA

--- " Veena A. Nair " <veeus18 wrote:

 

> Om Namo Narayanaya.

> A few thoughts, Balagopalji...

> When commentators interpret the 'karmanyevaadika...'

> sloka to mean " don't expect results.. " I think what

> they are actually saying is 'don't expect results of

> a certain type'. You do something, there is bound to

> be a result. Law of physics! When 'you are expecting

> a result' you are actually hoping for a result that

> is conducive to your state of mind. We don't want a

> result that is not to our liking. And we are

> constantly thrown between these two alternatives

> (that are unborn, still in the future) instead of

> focusing in the present!

>

> **Swami Chinmayananda in his exposition actually

> strikes a note of caution when he says " To do our

> duties without any expectation of results would seem

> to be almost impossible to the one who is trying to

> understand the stanza through his imagination. But

> when the same individual, after his studies, walks

> out into the open fields of his life and there tries

> to practise them, he shall discover that this is the

> very secret of real achievement " . (p. 234-235).

>

> Further, " ...the Lord's advice here is a call to man

> not to waste his present moments in fruitless dreams

> and fears, but to bring his best-all the best in

> him-to the present and live vitally every

> moment......Arjuna is advised that all that is given

> to you is to act and having known the cause of

> action to be a noble intention, bring to the

> activity all that is best in you and forget yourself

> in the activity. Such inspired action is sure to

> bear fruit and immediately is its own reward "

> (p.236-237).

> Swamiji says that a real Karma Yogi is one who

> understands that a) his concern is with action alone

> b) that he has no concern with results c) that he

> should not entertain the motive of gaining a fixed

> fruit for a given action and d) the above said ideas

> do not mean that he should sit back courting

> inaction! Be so occupied in your work that you are

> free from all mental preoccupations and the work

> itself is the reward.

>

> Easy to say, but really hard to practice. I am sure

> all of us have ocassions when something is so

> important to us we need to give it our best effort,

> but we can't help thinking about the scenario after

> the work is done (e.g., will this interview get me

> the job, how will I react when I get the job, we

> even think of what stuff we'll buy when we get the

> job!! and all we need to be doing is focusing on

> staying calm for the interview!!).

> Om Namo Narayanaya.

> Veena.

>

> **Sreemad BhagawadGeeta - Chapters I and II - By

> Swami Chinmayananda- Central Chinmaya Mission Trust,

> Bombay.

>

> balagopal ramakrishnan <rbalpal wrote:

> HARI AUM

>

> I don't know why even learned persons - Shree

> Sandip

> Chaitanyaji's Malayalam Gita pravachanam -page 22-

> sent by Smt Anjusha varma to this group on 17th Jan

> 2008-explain the famous sloka (verse 48 of

> ch.2)'karmanye..akarmani' as 'don't expect

> results'.

> Without any expectations nothing moves or works.

> The

> motive is important. What the sloka infer is to

> remind

> the person that actions are in present tense and

> its

> results come in from future. Since one does not

> have

> any control on the future one cannot be the

> 'author'

> of the result. So it says - don't worry on things

> one

> doesn't have any control upon. Be peaceful. Spend

> all

> your energy, focus, attention, on what is in hand,

> and

> that is the action in present.

>

> Regards

>

> Balagopal

>

> NARAYANA NARAYANA NARAYANA

>

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