Chapter 18 verse 9
“When actions are taken in response to duty, Arjuna, and one relinquishes attachment to any reward, it is considered renunciation in the nature of goodness.”
When actions are performed since it is meant to be
done without any attachment to the fruits of the action, it is said to be
performed in sattvic mode or purity in action. This is the essence of karma
yoga or union of body, mind and spirit in perfect action without expectations.
We all have actions which are difficult to perform or make us uneasy. Arjuna
had this predicament of the choice of killing his own kith and kin. It is
pretty hard to contemplate doing that even if one was born a warrior. It is not
that he was not capable of executing that but was divided in his mind about the
utility of the action. We all face this problem. Once we get on the spiritual
path, we reach a point where it makes more sense to give it all up and walk
away. However is that the best course of action to learn to be satchidananda-
reaching existential bliss state? The best course of action is to exhaust our
inherent vasanas by resorting to desire less actions which are performed always
for the benefit of the world in general and people around us in particular.
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