VERSE NUMBER 10 OF KARMA YOGA OR THE YOGA OF ACTION OR THE METHOD OF WORK

THE HOLY GITA

CHAPTER THREE

KARMA YOGA OR THE YOGA OF ACTION OR THE METHOD OF ACTION

VERSE NUMBER 10

Text in Transliteration:

sahayajnaah prajaah srstvaa puro ‘vaacha prajaapatih

anena prasavisyadhvam esha vo ‘stv ishta kaama dhuk

Text in English:

Having created mankind in the beginning together with Yajna, the Prajapati said: “By this shall you propagate; this shall be the mich cow of your desires.”

COMMENTARY BY SWAMI CHIDBHAVANANDA:

The creative force of nature is an aspect of Iswara. Manifesting Himself in this pspect He governs and guides human destiny. Then He is known as Prajapati.

Life on earth is wrought with misery, however much man may pose to be free from it.  Still, there is an unfailing way to convert earthly life into a ‘mansion of mirth.’ When all activities in life are changed in to Yajna, the spectacle also undergoes a corresponding change. Man is born to give and not to grab. The grabbing man pays the penalty in the form of misery; the giver reaps the reward in the form of undiluted joy. The means to give somehow increases in the man who has a mind to give.the resources, the bodily effort and the mental disposition—all these become multiplied in the man of Yajna. His life flowers in being useful to others and fruts in enlightenment.

Kaamadhuk is also called kaamadhenu. It is a mythological milch cow, having a woman’s head, a cows body and a bird’s wings. The usefulness of the human, the beast and the bird are all combined in it. The owner of this divine cow is belived to have all his wants immediately supplied. Allegorically this milch cow is nothing other than Yajna. The doer of Hajna is never in wants;  he is always in affluence.whatever he wants to offer to others comes to him easily. His bounteous mind is the real kaamadhenu. Because of this frame of mind he is ever in prosperity. Preyas and Sreyas do both pay homage to him. this is the plan and purpose of Cosmos.

COMMENTARY BY DR. S. RADHAKRISNAN:

Kamadhuk is the mythical cow of indra form which one can get all one desires. Bu doing one’s allotted duty one can be saved.

COMMENTARY BY SWAMI SIVANANANDA:

Prajapati is the Creator or Hrahma. Kamadhuk is another name for the damadhenu. Kamadhenu is the cow of Indra fom whci everyone can milk whatever one desires. (Cf. VIII. 4; IX.24m 27l X. 25)

Comments of the blogger:

Desires had to be shuned as being bounding the soul to this earth plane, with no way of emancipation in sight. In this verse, desire is sublimated. True desire is to do good to others, which is called inward culture or inward Yajna or yagya or sacrifice. The Creator created beings along with sacrifice is one of the original thought for emancipation Hinduism has contributed to the world. True Gesus Christ says if your neighbour takes your shirt, let him have your coat too. But the sacrifice contemplated here is one of self giving. Giving oneself. Thus the creator in the beginning created mankind with Yajna and said, with this you propagate. This shall be your milch cow kamadhenu of Indra which gave whatever one wants and desires. If we have such a beast, we would not care for anything. For we are comfortable with the possession of all-giving beast, the milch cow. Yajna is glorified in such glowing form by the Lord. Sacrifice when internalized becomes a force to reckon with. It gives all that needs to sacrifice without much of an exertion. Sacrifice is the key to cut asunder this bondage to nature is the original thought and contribution to the world for self –emancipation-tool. We can obtain our self only by giving up all here. Thus sacrifice ones life and body even is extolled as the proper method. We must live for others. When  our lifestyle becomes firmly one of unstinted giving which is spoken of sacrifice in the Upanishadic parlance, we have no stack here , and we become fully in possession of our Self. The creator created both mankind and sacrifice together and said by this you propagate, and let it be the Kamadhenu of Indira—is a most original contribution to the word thinking by the Hinduism. No other religion comes anywhere near this. That was why, when the Mohammadans and then the British people ruled this country and plunder it beside indulging in shameless acts of recruiting Hindus to their religion with force, the highest spiritual masters of Hinduism did not rouse the people against them. For them the encroachers and colonial folks too were their brothers and sisters. And if the mass of India had to work out their individual karma in the kurukchetra, so be it! That was their unconcerned concern. Otherwise, there were great maters who could have driven the aliens with the utterance nay with the thinking of one single thought, “Go!”

No they did not considered the Hindus as their people and the religious converters and the alien rulers as different. Now India is slowly becoming the power to reckon with. We were under the Italian yolk for ten years. Now the son of the soil has come to power and the dynasty is petrified. India is slowly evolving into a super power. Soon India, with its vedhopanishad background, would show the way for the world countries. Knowing this transformation some hundred or two hundred years ago, our religious masters did not interfere in the slow evolution. This India. This spirit and thinking pattern is Indian solely.