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Bhagavad
Gita - October 10, 2008
Chapter
3, Verses: 4-5
Swami
Yogatmananda
Vedanta
Society of Providence
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III.4:
A person does not attain freedom from action by abstaining from action;
nor does he/she attain fulfilment merely through renunciation (outward).
III.5:
Because no one ever remains even for a moment without doing work. For
all mode to woork under compulsion by the gunas (qualities) born of
Nature.
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Summary
of this lecture:
Unless we begin the work, we cannot finish it and unless we finish it,
there is no scope to real rest. All may wish to give up work; but only
those who have completed the life's work and thus reached the ultimate
goal, are free to give it up. So Lord Krishna tells Arjuna, who wants
to give up the work: "wait; the state beyond work does not come
unless one begins work." Just by taking up the outer signs of Sannyasa,
one does not become perfected. As long as there is ego, there is no
possibility of stopping work even for a moment. The ego will keep on
rattling the mind and then the body too.
So, the choice is do work in the right fashion or wrong fashion, doing
it either in the spirit of Yoga or doing it through desires. If you
are on the highway, you have to keep on driving. If you drive in the
right direction, you reach the destination and then there is rest. Otherwise
driving never ends and no question of rest.
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