Sunday, July 02, 2006
GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 21
21. Act with complete understanding
A person doing anything must be fully knowledgeable of the action he is performing. For such a person, is ignoble to do an action accompanied by a wish for its result. Lord Krishna advises Arjuna that he must surrender to the intellect and not to the mind in deciding on a course of action. When the mind and intellect are working in unison, one becomes a “samadarshi” (the one who has equanimity in his vision).
All action must be done with full sincerity, in a mood of contemplation and prayer. Our hands and feet must work with the complete awareness of the action performed. Thoughts of inaction must not enter our mind as an option, because negative thoughts can never initiate ultimate changes in a man’s life. Human minds have become numb by hearing too many “don’ts” from everywhere.
For those who perform their actions with equanimity, there are no 'good' or 'bad' karmas. He doesn’t belong to the group of sinners or that of virtues. One must strive for the ‘karma-yoga’ that transcends both. Yoga in karma is essentially the auspiciousness and attentiveness in the action performed.
Those who are keenly intelligent reject the fruits of action and stay free from the birth-death bondages. They attain a sorrow-less state where there are no obstacles. In the hymn -santhi mantra- we pray not for a sorrow-free life, but to attain a mental state that surpass life’s sorrows.
The path to complete freedom is achieved by getting rid of attachment to everything like a yogi, identifying himself with nothing. It is the state where you are equally at peace in gain or lose. Attachment is the glue that binds us with various things and most of our relations are born out of selfishness. For example, attachment to son is our wish that he should become ‘this or that’. He should achieve something which we couldn’t in our life- and we should reap the benefit by achieving that. Many a times, we disguise our selfishness with better sounding words such as ‘duty’, ‘love’ and ‘responsibility’, etc.
A person doing anything must be fully knowledgeable of the action he is performing. For such a person, is ignoble to do an action accompanied by a wish for its result. Lord Krishna advises Arjuna that he must surrender to the intellect and not to the mind in deciding on a course of action. When the mind and intellect are working in unison, one becomes a “samadarshi” (the one who has equanimity in his vision).
All action must be done with full sincerity, in a mood of contemplation and prayer. Our hands and feet must work with the complete awareness of the action performed. Thoughts of inaction must not enter our mind as an option, because negative thoughts can never initiate ultimate changes in a man’s life. Human minds have become numb by hearing too many “don’ts” from everywhere.
For those who perform their actions with equanimity, there are no 'good' or 'bad' karmas. He doesn’t belong to the group of sinners or that of virtues. One must strive for the ‘karma-yoga’ that transcends both. Yoga in karma is essentially the auspiciousness and attentiveness in the action performed.
Those who are keenly intelligent reject the fruits of action and stay free from the birth-death bondages. They attain a sorrow-less state where there are no obstacles. In the hymn -santhi mantra- we pray not for a sorrow-free life, but to attain a mental state that surpass life’s sorrows.
The path to complete freedom is achieved by getting rid of attachment to everything like a yogi, identifying himself with nothing. It is the state where you are equally at peace in gain or lose. Attachment is the glue that binds us with various things and most of our relations are born out of selfishness. For example, attachment to son is our wish that he should become ‘this or that’. He should achieve something which we couldn’t in our life- and we should reap the benefit by achieving that. Many a times, we disguise our selfishness with better sounding words such as ‘duty’, ‘love’ and ‘responsibility’, etc.
# posted by Sukumar Canada @ 12:24 PM 
