Chapter 18: Moksha-sannyasa-yoga:: Verse 45
स्वे स्वे कर्मण्यभिरत: संसिद्धिं लभते नर: ।
स्वकर्मनिरत: सिद्धिं यथा विन्दति तच्छृणु ॥
sve sve karmaṇy-abhirata: saṃsiddhiṃ labhate nara:
sva-karma-nirata: siddhiṃ yathā vindati tacchṛṇu – 18.45
Performing attentively one’s own activities, man attains spiritual fruition. Listen as to how one, engaged in his own duty, reaches perfection.
Chapter 18: Moksha-sannyasa-yoga: - Verse 45
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
Krishna presented the inner constitution of the individual as well as the psycho-structure of the society, showing how the individual activities should contribute to the society’s needs, making the nation strong, resourceful and sufficient in every way.
Whatever be one’s activity, it should be devoutly done. At no time should one feel he is lower or higher, creditable or not so, less rewarded or more. Everyone verily conforms to his own tendencies and skills, contributing whatever he can. It is also spiritually fulfilling.
In such a background all are equal, each contributing in one manner or another to the overall wellbeing. If thus all strive to make their contribution ceaseless and wholesome, the aggregate benevolence will be unimaginable. That is what makes the society stable, sustaining and powerful. The society is what its members make it.
Krishna will now show how such dedicated objective perseverance brings individual subjective perfection too.
