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Bhagavad
Gita - March 28, 2008
Chapter
2, Verses: 48-50
Swami
Yogatmananda
Vedanta
Society of Providence
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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.
II.50:
Possessed of wisdom, one rejects here both virtue and vice. Therefore,
devote yourself to (Karma) Yoga. Yoga is skilfulness in action.
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Summary
of this lecture:
The intellectual understanding or Sankhya must be followed by Yoga -
the practical implementation. Ideally, work has the potential to purify
the worker. To do work in that spirit is Yoga. The personal attachments,
'I & mine' must be kept away for the practice of Yoga.
Another important characteristic of it is SAMENESS. One should of course
strive to get success, but yet be unaffected in success and failure,
praise and blame, knowing they are all temporary conditions. Also since
nothing is purely good and purely bad on the relative plane, we should
just do our duty, keeping our intentions good.
Sri Krishna has already told that inaction is to be avoided at all costs.
Let us work, but not get bound by that work; this requires a very special
skill, since work naturally tends to bind. This skill in work, Lord
Krishna defines as Yoga. External skill in a work is only about the
external results; and while it has its importance too, what is more
important is the internal result - the purification of mind - and work,
if done with this skill of Yoga, helps a person to do that.
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