THE HOLY GITA
CHAPTER THREE
KARMA YOGA OR THE YOGA OF ACTION OR THE METHOD OF WORK
VERSE NUMBER 25
Text in Transliteration:
saktaah karmaani avidvaamsa yathaa kurvanti bhaarata
kuryaad vidvaams tathaa ‘saktas chikirsur lokasamraham
Text in English:
As the unenlightened act from attachment to action, O
Bharata, so should the enlightened act without attachment, desirous of the
guidance of the multitude.
COMMENTARY BY CHIDBHAVANANDA:
Differences between man and man is in the sort of desire
harboured at heart. The enlightened one is desireless. Desire for the fruits of
actions goads the multitude to activity. The enlightend man has no personal
motive. Out of compassion for the ignorant he ceaselessly works. Following his
example the others do their work.
COMMENTARY BY DR.S.RADHAKRISHNAN:
Though the soul which is centred in the light has nothing
further to accomplish for itslf, it unites itself with the cosmic action,
even as the Divine does. Its activity
well be inspired by the light and joy of the Supreme.
COMMENTARY BY SWAMI SIVANANDA:
The ignorant man works in edpectation of fruits. He says, “I
will do such and such work and will ger such and such fruit.” But the wise man
who knows the Self, serves not for his own end. He should so act that the
world, following his example, would attain peace, harmony, purity of heart,
divine light and knowledge. A wise man is one who knows the Self.(Cf. II.64;
III.19; .49)
Comments of the blogger:
Here on the earthly plane nothing could be done without
action. But while the uninitiated and ignorant people act out of selfish
excitement and in expectation of fruits of their action, the enlighten also
should indulge in action, but without any expectation. This is very important.
For the ignorant people should not become listless seeing the enlightened going
without any action.
The same thing is repeated, represented many a time. One
object is viewd from different angles and perspective. It is the proper method
of teaching. And as for calling Arjuna as Bharata the Lord acknowledges his
mettle as he belongs to an enlightend race. So Arnjuna’s confusion and
despondency was only transitory!
In our times we see even highly cultured and literate behave
like a boor and bruit and thereby play a foul game through indulging in wrong
actions. Non action is bad and hypocritic and exposes one as not understanding
the scheme of the universe, wrong action is a foul action.
In explanation of the above, the article I sent to a reputed
National Newspaper may be cited with merit.
CHECK ON MY CAT!
One Mainak Sarkar, an Indian American, shot his wife and a
professor, William Klug, of the institution he was part of and his own wife,
Ashley Hasti, before taking his life. The three-named hit list included another
professor too, but fortunately he was out station. It was not clear whether his
marriage survived from the date of marriage , that is June 14, 2011 to the time
of shooting.
The shooting was reported in the papers dated June 4, 2016.
There must be strong reason/s for an IIT student to commit
murder and take the self.
But whatever be the reason, he is not an unkind person. For
he has left a note that says, “check on my cat!” The love extended to his cat
could not be extended to his former (?) wife and a couple of professors of
UCLA.
The gunman was an Indian to start with. His Kolkatta school
teachers and a fellow student describe him as a good student. But within twenty
or so years he has turned a gunman on a shooting spree.
What could be the reason? It could be anything including a
nursing wound because of breach of marital fidelity and friendship. But a
highly qualified intellectual behaves like the mindless ISI maggot. The blood
that was coursing through them was that of Indian. A Hindu Indian at that! He
has behaved like an American teenager who enters a nursery class and sweeps it
with his gun taking the lives of ten or so children. Hiduism is a culture that
teaches to see the whole of the humanity as Vasudheva Kutumpakam; whose ancient
seers and sages pray for the welfare of all the two legged and four legged! The problem is in the type of education
imparted. No moral study paper needs to be tackled for an engineer, doctor,
lawyer and the IIT students. India is a nation with 85% of the people belonging
to Hinduism. How can a Hindu take others life? Which means he was not
inculcated in the Hindu way of life! Once they start to roll on wealth they
progressively start to be unable to handle normal problems that crop up in
one’s life.
Unbridled materialism is the reason for this. Once you have
all your dreams seen come true materially your spiritual sinew starts to rot.
Unbridled materialistic pursuit sap one’s spiritual power.
China and Soviet Russia banished religion that had been
flourishing till the “Revolution” in those countries. A modern china, when it
became one of the world leaders in economic terms, found the need for a dash of
spiritualism. The portrait of the famed philosopher, Confucius was declared
open at the Tianamen Square, the altar of mammoth human sacrifice in the modern
History of China.
In this field, the Indian Express scores high. Its
supplements of Saturday and Sunday have enough spiritual food for thought. One
can live extreme poverty without losing self, but it is very difficult to
retain ones spiritual moorings in the face of extreme riches and wealthy
conditions.
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