Chapter 5: Karma-sannyāsa-yoga: – Yoga of Inner RenunciationVerse 14
न कर्तृत्वं न कर्माणि लोकस्य सृजति प्रभु: ।
न कर्मफलसंयोगं स्वभावस्तु प्रवर्तते ॥
English Transliteration
na kartṛtvaṃ na karmāṇi
lokasya sṛjati prabhu:
na karma-phala-saṃyogaṃ
svabhāvas-tu pravartate – 5.14
Translation
The Lord of the Universe does not forge any sense of doership or enjoin actions on anyone; nor again does He connect one with the results of his actions. What indeed acts and activates is one’s own nature, the qualities each possesses.
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Chapter 5: Karma-sannyāsa-yoga: – Yoga of Inner Renunciation - Verse 14
Ma Gurupriya
Commentary
People have an overwhelming notion that a Superpower has effected the creation. He alone lords over everything. He links every actor with the result of whatever he does.
It is not so, says Krishna categorically. He has stressed right from the 3rd chapter that all actions are caused by Nature’s three guṇas. Nature is but the tool of God. What does the statement that the Lord does not interfere with man’s activities, their character, execution and result mean then?
Every form of existence, more so the human, has its inherent qualities. These cause one’s tendencies and instigations, called svabhāva, which alone comes into display. Every action is a means to gain a certain outcome. Thus inherent tendencies, their display in the form of actions, and their effects are a sequence Nature preserves. Nothing else has any place anywhere.
