Bhagwat Geeta; Chapter 3
Karma Yoga
If in your opinion O Janardana, knowledge is superior to action, then why, O Keshava are you engaging me in this horrible action. 3:1
The Lord Shree said, the O sinless one, as I have explained previously, in this world there is a twofold basis of devotion, that of knowledge for contemplatives and action for Yogis. 3:3
Not merely by abstaining from prescribed action can one attain the state beyond action, nor by renunciation alone can one attain perfection. 3:4
A person who sits restraining his working senses while contemplating sense objects deludes himself and called a hypocritic. 3:6
Perform your prescribed duties, for doing so is better than inaction. One can not even maintain one's body without action. 3:8
Other than action performed for the purpose of sacrifice, all action in this world is binding,.The act is a sacrifice for the satisfaction of God. O son of Kunti, without being attached to enjoy the results. 3:9
Having created humanity along with sacrifice, the progenitor said, at the beginning of creation "by this sacrifice"shall attain all things, may such sacrifice be your wish-fulfilling cow of plenty. 3:10
By sacrifice, you will satisfy the gods, who in turn satisfy you. By this mutual agreement, you shall attain the greatest god. 3:11
The Gods nourished by sacrifice will certainly bestow the fulfillment of all your desires. however,, one who enjoys God's natural gifts without acknowledging the Gods themselves is a thief. 3:12
The saintly, who even while eating perform sacrifice by offering food and then eating the remnants, are released from all evil. The wicked, who cook only for themselves, eat only impurities. 3:13
One who takes pleasure in the self, whose satisfaction is derived from the self, and who is content in the self alone has no need to perform duties. 3:17
He has nothing to gain by acting, and nothing to lose by not acting. He needs no one for any purpose. 3:18
Therefore without attachment to the fruits of your work, constantly engage in your duty as a warrior, by acting without attachment one attains God's consciousness. 3:19
Whatever a great man does, the world follows. Whatever standards he sets the world pursues. 3:21
O Partha there is no work that I need to perform in all the three worlds, nor is there anything to be attained by me. In spite of this, I nevertheless perform prescribed duties. 3:22
For if I should fail to engage in proper action O Partha people would follow my footsteps in every way. 3:23
The wise should not unsettle the minds of the ignorant who are attached to fruitive work. They should make them delight in all prescribed duties while acting themselves with discipine.3:26
However, O mighty-armed one, one who knows the truth concerning the two spheres, Action and Gunas, and thus thinks that only the Gunas interact with one another remains unattached. 3:28
Offering all of one's actions unto me in the knowledge of the indwelling super souls, free from desires, selflessness, and grief, fight. 3:30
Peoples who constantly practice this, my own doctrine, with full faith and without envy are also released from Karmic reactions. 3:31
Therefore O best of Bharatas, at the very outset regulate your senses and kill this devil that destroys knowledge and self-realization. 3:41
It is said that senses are superior to the sense objects, the mind is superior to the senses, and moreover, the intellect is superior to the mind. Superior even to the intellect is the self. 3:41
Thus knowing oneself to be superior to the intellect, control the mind with intellect. In this way, O almighty armed one destroys the unconquerable enemy in the form of desire. 3:43
