Bhagavad Gita Summary : Arjuna asked Krishna, what is
sacrifice and what is sannyasa (living as saint) in terms of action. Krishna
told Arjuna, declining all the actions to satisfy material nature, leads
to sannyasa, surrendering the fruitive results leads to sacrifice. At any time,
worshiping, sacrifice and charity should not be given up, this even helps the
purest souls to achieve higher state. However if they are performed
with attachment, then they are of no use. When the prescribed duties are
performed without expectation of result then it’s of goodness, the prescribed
duties are selectively performed and also with expectations then it’s of
passion, the duties are declined because of illusion then it’s of ignorance. It’s
impossible for someone to be without any duties; hence leaving the results to
me is the best. The body, performer, senses, undertakings and super soul all of
them combined perform action, so if anyone think that he also did the
action, it means he is ignorant. In goodness, the knowledge sees supreme soul
in everyone, the action is performed without attachment, love and hatred,
the performer has no ego, lot of enthusiasm, no waver on success or failure. In
passion the knowledge see different people in bodies, actions are performed
with great effort to satisfy the desires, performer is always worried about
fruitive results, envy and greedy. In ignorance, knowledge sees darkness in
everything, the action is performed with illusion and disregard, the performer
is cheating, lazy and materialistic.
In goodness, the understanding
helps to find the right actions, the determination is unbreakable and oriented
with clean faith, the happiness which starts as tough one and ends as pure one.
In passion, the understanding is not able to differentiate the right and wrong
actions, the determination is based on results/economic/religious/sense
gratification, and happiness is based on senses, the start as pure and end
as Poisson. In Ignorance, the understanding is the wrong
actions will be perceived as right ones, determination is based on
illusion, dreaming and unintelligent, the happiness is from beginning to end it’s
of delusion. These three characters impact everyone. Being purified by
intelligence, self control, who performs duties , controls food, removes
false pride, ego, who lives in peace can understand me , as I am , the supreme
god, they in full consciousness serve me and live with me. Though
engaged in all kind of activities, my devotee achieves me. The one who
is conscious on me, who always thinks on me, i am there to help him
cross this life and he will be never lost. As supreme god, i am there in
everyone, just they need to surrender to me, and then I take care of them. The
most confidential knowledge is , always think about me, worship, surrender all
results to me, by this you will come to me, without fail, i promise this. The
one who understand this should tell to others and the one who hears this with
full faith and follows it, will also reach me. After hearing this Arjuna told
to supreme god, that he understands his duty and ready to perform it now.
Sanjaya explained all those
wording to Dhritarashtra and told him, that these wordings made him stand and
he always like to remember them in his mind. Then Arjuna went to the battle and
the Pandavas have won the great battle.
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"Our Life: I
always wonder, why should a human perform an action without result? It may be
good for talk but not for real life! And thinking of growing in life, making
money and keeping the family happy is the ultimate purpose for living, how can I
leave those and lead a life? Gita is not for a common man... these are the
thinking I had and may be you also had at the beginning; now to some level we
both have our answers.... Performing action is the key for us to live, we
as common people can’t stop performing action, but we can cut the expectation
on results, because the results lead to expectation and expectation leads to
desires and desire leads misery and illusion. Some of us think, by doing
action, we can wait, because god will give us the result... This also
another expectation, but now it’s on god... Perform your duties and offer all
the results to god, this is simpler for us. When our growth is important for
others and we don’t take pride, attach ourselves in that growth, then a growth
is not harmful, it’s again part of duty for us, as a person with such
capability. However the moment, we think, it we who has done, and doing it,
leading it, we are lost. Similarly as a common man, we all do activities to
satisfy the sensual needs, however we should be able to distance them as we
demand, and for that it’s important to surrender all this happenings to god. We
can’t attach anything but only to supreme power, with all other things we can
live, but with clarity they exist today and may not exist tomorrow. We can be
there with children, wife, parents, brothers, and friends and with all the
useful assets, but be clear, one day they will go out and we will also go out
from this life... But we will never be left alone without god! The ultimate
supreme power is always within you, so what else you need... Even if you die,
even if your soul leaves, every moment he is there with you and finally you
reach him...so what’s there to worry! Surrender yourself to him, he will take
care! (Don’t get confused to which god I need to surrender, because one god may
get angry if you surrender yourself with another god :)) The one supreme power
of this universe is within you, and you are within him!!! With this run your
life, perform your duties, leave the worries and detach yourself from pride,
ego, and expectations”
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