In human life, the guru's place is pre-eminent. By keeping utmost faith in Guru alone, everything is obtained.
A devotee's entire strength is due to his guru. Devotion to the guru is superior to devotion to gods and goddesses.
The guru is the supreme being.
సాయి రూపాన్నే ధ్యానిద్దాము, సాయి పాదాలనే పూజిద్దాము !
సాయి మాటలే మన మంత్రాలు, సాయి కృపే మనకు మోక్షము!!


Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Bhagavadgita- 3.2 Karma Yoga- Right action



Bhagavan cautioned us not to be hypocrite and showed us the right way to do our actions (karmas).

Niyatam kuru karma tvam karma jyaayo hyakarmanah!
Sarira-yatraapi cha te na prasiddhyed-akarmanah!!

You perform your bounden duty; for action is superior to inaction. Even the maintenance of the body would not be possible for you by inaction.

As humans people have right to do only their karmas. The fruits of their actions may make humans to take life as animals or other some other forms of life. If we are in these life forms there will be no good or bad deeds. This only happens in human form. Human actions are binding.  

The actions that are performed under the guidance of the scriptures are also considered as binding. Then what kind of actions we need to undertake?

Can we completely avoid doing these karmas.

Bhagavan answers these questions in the next verse.

Yagnaardhaat karmano’nyatra loko’yam karmabandhanah!
Tadhartha karma kounteya muktha-sanghah samachara!!

The world is bound by action other than those performed “for the sake of sacrifice”: do thou, therefore O kounteya! Perform action for Yagna sake alone and free from attachments.

As long as we are in this body we cannot avoid karmas. Then it is better to know what kind of actions are appropriate.

Bhagavan told us to convert karma into a karma yoga. Every action does not bring about bondages upon the doer. We have to just worry about unintelligent activities. These activities will create more impressions on our minds. If we do not want the consequences of these actions, we need to control the desires at the mind and intellect level.

Proper action can be performed as follows.

For actions born out of mind oriented desires:

We have to stay away from illegitimate desires.

We should not fulfill illegitimate desires.

We have to moderate the legitimate desires.

We have to fulfill the legitimate desires without attachment.


Controlling the actions stemming out of intellect:

We have stop thinking about the result of action when performing an action.

We have to avoid falling into the trap of entitled attitude.

We have to renounce rights.

We have to perform our actions with a duty minded attitude.

We have to perform actions with a balancing mind.


OM SRI SAI RAM!

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