The deed to be performed is the same-the ordained action, the exercise of yagya. And to gain it there must be self-surrender. Lord Krishn sings: “Although engaged in action whole heartedly, one who finds refuge in me achieves the everlasting, … Continue reading →
“Renunciation” is, as we have seen, complete self-abnegation. It is the condition in which the seeker abandons whatever he has and only then does he reach the point when no further action is needed. Lord Krishn sings: “He whose intellect … Continue reading →
The conduct that takes one to God is worship, which commences in faith in the desired end. So meditation on the Supreme Being is the one true action that Lord Krishn has-divided into four steps in his system of varn. … Continue reading →
Lord Krishn sings: “Listen to me, too, O Dhananjay, on the threefold classification according to the properties of nature as I make them exhaustively and respectively, of intellect, steadfastness, and happiness.” “That intellect is immaculate, O Parth, which is aware … Continue reading →
Knowledge and action and the doer have been graded into three kinds each, in the Sankhya philosophy of properties (gun). Lord Krishn sings: “Know that knowledge as immaculate (sattwik) by which one perceives the reality of the indestructible God as … Continue reading →
