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Bhagavad
Gita - January 15, 2010
Chapter
5, Verses: 12-16
Swami
Yogatmananda
Vedanta
Society of Providence
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V.12:
Giving up the result of work by becoming resolute faith, one attains
Peace arising from steadfastness. One, who is lacking in resolute faith,
being attached to the result under the impulsion of desire becomes bound.
V.13: The embodied person of self-control, having given up all actions
mentally, continues happily in the town of nine gates (body), without
doing or causing (others) to do anything at all.
V.14: The Self does not create agentship or any objects (of desire)
for anyone; not association with the results of actions. But it is Nature
that acts.
V.15: The Omnipresent neither accepts anybody's sin or virtue. Knowledge
remains covered by ignorance. Thereby the creatures become deluded.
V.16: But in case of those whose ignorance becomes destroyed by the
knowledge (of the Self), their Knowledge, like the sun, reveals that
supreme Reality.
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Ramakrishna Math, Hyderabad.
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Summary
of this lecture:
Sri Krishna's message of karma yoga is for us to do our work without
desire for the results (praise, acknowledgement, financial gain, etc.).
Of course money and other such things will come as an automatic result
of it, irrespective of what you expect; but we should not do work in
order to make money. Like a yogi, we should work for self-purification.
Difficult though it may be at first, we must view ourselves as the "in-dweller"
or the body. The mind and sense organs are doing the work, but they
are really separate, outside of us. We have no one but ourselves to
blame for our identification with the body, therefore we must take responsibility
for ourselves and work to rid ourselves of this misidentification. We
cannot blame God and expect Him to remove our delusions for us with
no effort on our part. As Swami Vivekananda wrote, "Thine is the
hand that holds the rope that drags thee on." Since ignorance is
the cause of this confusion, Knowledge is The Remedy.
There were very good questions asked at the end regarding the practice
of detachment.
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