VERSE NUMBER 22 OF KARMA YOGA OR THE YOGA OF ACTION OR THE METHOD OF WORK

THE HOLY YOGA        

CHAPTER THREE

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

VERSE NUMBER 22

Text in Transliteration:

Na me paarthaa ‘sti kartavyam trishu lokeshu kimchana

Naa ‘navaaptam avaaptavyam varta eva cha karmani

Text in English:

There is nought in the three worlds, O Partha, that has not been done by Me, nor anything unattained that might be attained; still i engage in action.

COMMENTARY BY SWAMI CHIDBHAVANANDA:

    Iswara or the Saguna Brahmam is immanent in the universe. Because of His proximity there are orderliness and precision in all the happenings in the cosmos. These happenings, however, are all impersonal. Incessant activities are evident even in His incarnations as Rama, Krishna and others. Sri Krishna had nothing to gain or lose in the Mahabharata warfare. Still the part He played in in was far more than those of all the characters put together.                                  

COMMENTARY BY DR.S. RADHAKRISHNAN:

Life of God and Life of the world are not opposed to each other.

COMMENTARY BY SWAMI SIVANANDA:

I am the Lord of the universe and therefore I have no personal grounds to engage Myself in action. I have nothing to achive as i have all divine wealth, as the wealth of the universe is Mine, and yet I engage Myself in action.

Why do you not follow My example? Why do you not endeavour to prevent the masses from following the wrong path by setting an example yourself? If you set an example, people will follow you as you are a leader with noble qualitites.

Comments of the blogger:

God’s soul is scintillating in the universe in the beings and nonbeings. This cosmos is not an inert thing. It is not as though Man alone is the most intelligent beings. And there are some holding on to the view that there might be beings million times more intelligent in the universe. And to catch the extra terrestrial waves and vibrations sent out by them America and other countries have set up huge radars. The fact of the matter is that this universe is full of consciousness and wisdom. There is a universal soul and we can live a peacefully or other way, notwithstanding our economic and othe conditions, insofar as we are in sinc with that universal soul. We often feel it but can’t give an expression to it. But here only the ancient Indian Rig-Vedic sages and the sages and Nature-worshippers of ancient Egypt, Rome and other countries score over other modern religions including the Hinduvism as we are now practising.

There is an universal soul and you can invoke it by proferring your prayer toward a mountain, tree, vast stretches of desert land, vast water bodies like the ocean, or the minutest particle of a grain of soil, a rock, sun up, sun down, rain , hurricane , tornado, earthquake and other acts of God. Sun up and sun down and twilight is nothing less an act of God that the tsunami and earthquake.

And in the Holy Ouran it is said that Allah the Great created seven skies. In the Holy Bible Lord Jesus says His Lords Palace has many mansions. Indeed there are more worlds and planes of consciousness than ours.

In the last verse the Lord stated that whatever a great man does, others follow. In this verse, since He is the Supreme Lord, He takes His own case for example.

In the seven lokas there is nothing the Lord does not possess and in want of, but still He constantly engages in action.

The Shiva dhandava is to be understood in this wise. The cosmic dance of Lord Shiva goes on till delusion whereupon, at the end of the four yugas, the world is slurped up by the Lord.

If the Lord Krishna Himself acts without respite, how could we or Arjuna, for that matter, desist from action?