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KARMA YOGA IN THE GITA
from evil and has achieved all.”
Lord Krishna says: "Having abandoned attachment to the fruit of action, always content, nowhere seeking refuge, he is not doing anything, although doing actions. Hoping for naught, his mind and self controlled, having abandoned all greed, performing action by the body alone he doth not commit sin. Content with whatsoever he obtaineth without effort, free from the pairs of opposites, without envy, balanced in success and failure, though acting he is not bound Of one with attachment dead, harmonious and with his thoughts controlled in wisdom, his works being all sacrifices, all actions melt away. The Eternal the oblation, the Eternal the clarified butter, are offered in the Eternal fire by the Eternal; unto the Eternal verily shall he go, who, in his action, meditateth wholly upon the Eternal He who hath renounced action by Yoga, who hath rent asunder doubts by wisdom, who is ruled by the Self, actions do not bind, O Arjuna!" Gita: Ch. IV-20 to 24, 41.
When a man regards the action as if it were for him, he has 'action-mentality', and when he treats of it as God-ordained and for God, he being just a spectator, he has 'inaction-mentality'.
If an action is done with Nishkamya Bhava as Ishwararpana, then it is no action at all. It is ‘inaction in action'.
If you identify yourself with Brahman and stand as a witness of the activities of Prakriti and its effects,
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