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GITA-RAHASYA OR KARMA-YOGA
यस्य नाहंकृतो भावो बुद्धिर्यस्य न लिप्यते।
हत्वाऽपि स इमाँल्लोकान्न हन्ति न निबद्धयते ॥१७॥ does not it must be said) understand anything. (17) Who does not possess the belief that "I am the doer", and whose Reason is unattached, such a person, even destroying other persons, cannot be said to have killed them; and that (Action) does not bind him.
The word ' sāṁkhya' in stanza 13 has been interpreted by some commentators as meaning the Vedānta-Sāstra ; but as the next, that is, the fourteenth stanza, has appeared literally in the Nārāyaniya doctrine, and as there is a previous reference in that treatise to the two Kāpila Sāmkhya elements, namely, Prakrti and Purusa, the word
sāmkhya', in my opinion, must be taken in this place to mean the 'Kāpila Sāmkhya philosophy'. The proposition that a man should not entertain the Hope for the Fruit of Action, nor the egotistical idea that he will do any particular thing, has often before appeared in the Gītā (GI. 2. 19; 2. 47; 3. 27; 5. 8-11 ; 13. 29); and that very proposition has been further emphasised here by saying, that "man is not the only reason for the effect of any Action coming into existence (see Gi. Ra. Ch. XI). Stanza. 14 means, that whether human beings exist in this world or not, the uninterrupted activity of the world will go on according to the natural course of Prakrti; and that, things, which a man believes to have been done by him, are not the result merely of his efforts, but have been brought about by his efforts combined with the other activities in the world. For instance, agriculture does not depend merely on the efforts of a man, but the natural: qualities or the activities of other things like land, seed, rain, manure, oxen etc. are necessary, in order that agriculture should be successful. Some of the various actiy-- ities in the world which are thus necessary to make human efforts successful, are partly known to us; and man makes an effort after considering the favourableness or otherwise of these factors. But, there are also several other activities in the world, of which men are not aware, and.
