Chapter 3 verse 13
“The righteous, who eat the
remnants of the sacrifices are freed from all sins; but those sinful ones, who
cook food only for their own sake, verily eat but sin”
It is easy to interpret this
verse plainly as the fire sacrifice which is stipulated in the Vedas as daily
practice for particular sections of society but here Krishna is talking about
sacrifice in the context of doing one’s actions or karma with an attitude of
that action being a sacrificial offering to divine. If the action is done with
a motive which is desire laden and expecting a particular result, then it
collects additional tendencies (called vasanas) which again need to be
exhausted. When Krishna says sin or free from sin, he is talking about action
which instills undesirable tendencies in us which needs to be overcome in a
near or far future. This collection of undesirable tendencies which takes us
away from eternal bliss is what causes the spiral of life and death. The only
way out of the death spiral is to act without particular desires.
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