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Bhagavad
Gita - March 21, 2007
Chapter
2, Verses: 47-49
Swami
Yogatmananda
Vedanta
Society of Providence
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II.47:Your
right is for action alone, never for the results. Do not become the
agent of the results of action. May you not have any inclination for
inaction.
II.48:
By being established in Yoga, O Dhananjaya (Arjuna), undertake actions
casting off attachment and remaining equipoised in success and failure.
Equanimity is called Yoga.
II.49:
O Dhananjaya, indeed, action is quite inferior to the yoga of wisdom.
Take resort to wisdom. Those who thirst for rewards are pitiable.
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Summary
of this lecture:
Lord Krishna diagnoses the problem of suffering and gives the proper
remedy. The correction is to be applied to one's awareness. Instead
of the mistaken awareness of 'I & mine', we need to have the true
awareness that God is everything. This transformation of awareness comes
by following the discipline and that is the meaning of Yoga. Determination
and one pointed attention are required.
Learning to work without expecting results is one of the keys to be
a Yogi. By expectation, we get bound. Whether success comes or failure,
one must diligently do one's duty. The equanimity in success or failure
is Yoga; it's the attitude that counts. Work can become worship by adopting
an attitude of sameness, not worrying about success or failure. Working
with desires for the fruits of the work, is miserly, petty-mindedness.
By working like that, we miss the tremendous liberating potential of
work. It is like discarding the banana and eating the skin.
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