Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharaj

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Equanimity and Freedom from Bondage

 

" As wise men, endowed with equanimity (Samta), renounce the fruits resulting

from actions or in other words, renouncing the world, freed from the shackles of

births, attain the blissful Supreme state. " (Gita 2:51)

 

" Karmajam buddhiyuktaa hi phalam tyaktvaa manisinah

janmabandhavinirmuk taah padam gacchantyanaamayam. " (Gita 2:51)

 

Those endowed with equanimity, they in reality are the wise ones. A man who does

not hate disagreeable actions, nor is attached to agreeable actions, is wise.

(Gita 18:10).

 

An action even without the desire for its fruit, will bring about fruit. No one

is capable of dispensing with it's fruit. Just like a farmer sows corn seed in a

field, without a selfish motive, then will there not be any corn? Whatever is

sown will inevitably germinate. Similarly, if a person works in a detached

spirit, he will definitely get its fruit, but it will not lead to bondage.

 

Therefore here, the renunciation of fruit means, renouncing the manifest and

latent desire for fruit and attachment for fruit. All are free and capable of

renouncing such desires.

 

The wise aspirants, endowed with equanimity of mind are freed from the birth and

death cycle. As, he who is established in equanimity, they do not in the least

bit possess flaws, such as attachment and aversion, desires, tendencies etc.,

therefore there remains no reason for future births. Thus they become free from

the shackles of birth and death forever.

 

In " padam gacchantyanaamayam " , " Aamaya " means ailment. An ailment is a blemish.

A thing which is free from all blemishes is called " anaamaya " (flawless). Wise

men endowed with equanimity attain the state which is free from any kind of

blemish. This state has been called eternal state (Gita 15:5) and " everlasting

imperishable state " in Gita 18:56.

 

Although in Gita 14:6, sattva quality (the mode of goodness) has also been

called flawless, but in reality, the essence of Self (God) is the only thing

that is flawless, because by attaining Self (God), one no longer remains in the

wheel of birth and death cycle. Lord Krishna has called Sattva quality also

flawless, because those qualities, help a man in attaining God Realization.

 

The Karma Yogi - situated in equanimity (Samta) performs actions and crosses the

cycle of birth and death, thereby attains God. Therefore, Karma Yoga is an

independent discipline in attaining the liberation (Mukti).