Atmavilas

Author(s): Atmanandji Maharaj
Publisher: Shraddha Sahitya Niketan

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Bhagwan Krishna consists in 'skilled action' ( योगः कर्मसु कौशलम् )which is neither actionlessnessnor action whose fruit is dedicated to God, hut action that is devoid of reactions which create bopdage for the doer & cause the endless chann of births and deaths. This is अकर्म or सहजकर्म, This shows how Gita is primarily a guide to right knowledge & a guide to right action only in so far as such action automatically springs from right knowledge.
Gita-Durpan thus corréots erroneous vios of some of the modern commentations whose approachi has been mainly iftellectual & who have read it the divine words little more than the approval of their own mental inclinations tempered, as they are, by the contemporary envoirment. Anyone interested in the right message of the Gita ought to read Gita-Darpán. (१) सिंघओवर कराची, ता०९-११-४४ समालोचक पं. श्रीरामस्वरूपजी द्विवेदी, एम० ए० प्रोफेसर सेएट-जोन्स
कालेल, आगरा मैंने अत्यन्त रुची तथा लाभके साथ स्वामी आत्मानन्दजीद्वारा रचित 'गीता-दर्पण'का स्वाध्याय किया है । इस प्रन्थ की विशेषता यह है कि इसमें गीताके उच्चतम दार्शनिक तथ्योंका यथार्थ विवेचन ऐमी सरल भाषामें किया गया है, जिसे मेरे जैसा साधारण व्यक्ति भी समझ सकता है। विषयका