Lesson 18 - A word of causion, in case you decide 'not to fight'.

 

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Chapter 18 -  The endeavor for Liberation - Slokas - 57, 58, 59, 60.


चेतसा सर्वकर्माणि मयि संन्यस्य मत्परः ।
बुद्धियोगमुपाश्रित्य मच्चित्तः सततं भव ॥ १८-५७॥

मच्चित्तः सर्वदुर्गाणि मत्प्रसादात्तरिष्यसि ।
अथ चेत्त्वमहङ्कारान्न श्रोष्यसि विनङ्क्ष्यसि ॥ १८-५८॥

यदहङ्कारमाश्रित्य न योत्स्य इति मन्यसे ।
मिथ्यैष व्यवसायस्ते प्रकृतिस्त्वां नियोक्ष्यति ॥ १८-५९॥

स्वभावजेन कौन्तेय निबद्धः स्वेन कर्मणा ।
कर्तुं नेच्छसि यन्मोहात्करिष्यस्यवशोऽपि तत् ॥ १८-६०॥

chetasaa sarvakarmaani mayi samnyasya matparah’ ।
buddhiyogamupaashritya machchittah’ satatam bhava ॥ 18-57 ॥

machchittah’ sarvadurgaani matprasaadaattarishyasi ।
atha chettvamahankaaraanna shroshyasi vinankshyasi ॥ 18-58 ॥

yadahankaaramaashritya na yotsya iti manyase ।
mithyaisha vyavasaayaste prakri’tistvaam niyokshyati ॥ 18-59 ॥

svabhaavajena kaunteya nibaddhah’ svena karmanaa ।
kartum nechchhasi yanmohaatkarishyasyavasho’pi tat ॥ 18-60 ॥

Consciously entrust all actions to Me and through the asscent of the intellect reach over My supreme state and remain always with the awareness of Me

With Me in awareness, you shall get over all kinds of distress supported by Me; but if you egoistically fail to listen, you shall be gone for good.

If you decide 'not to fight', being blindfolded by your Ego, your own material nature will fasten you more to this kind of heedless condition.

Actions done out of delusion, hey, Son of Kunti, by their own nature are binding; even that you do not want do, you end up doing that helplessly.

 krti-mahodadhau patana-karanam |  phalam ashashvatam gati-nirodhakam  ||
The fruits of action are not everlasting and they cause one to fall into the great ocean of karma, blocking spiritual progress.
If we do not realise or accept the truth in the first verse, we will develop or fatten our ego (pride and arrogance). The attitude, "I am the doer," makes one an ahamkari (egoist), and the claim, "mine is the result," makes one a svartha (selfish person). When an egoistic and selfish person enjoys a temporary result (results of all karma are transient), he or she desires to enjoy it again and again, and hence, indulges in action again and again. This vicious cycle is described as krtimahodadhi, the vast ocean of karmas or samsara. Thus, while karma is finite and its result, transient, the bondage it creates continues indefinitely. -  Lalitha Kamath

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