Chapter 3: Karma Yoga – Transforming All Activities into Yoga: Verse 22
न मे पार्थास्ति कर्तव्यं त्रिषु लोकेषु किञ्चन ।
नानवाप्तमवाप्तव्यं वर्त एव च कर्मणि ।।
na me pārthāsti kartavyaṃ triṣu lokeṣu kiñcana
nānavāptam-avāptavyaṃ varta eva ca karmaṇi – 3.22
O Partha, I do not have even a speck of duty or compulsion to do, in all the three worlds. So too I have nothing ungained to be gained (I am fulfilled to the core). Yet I am relentlessly active.
Chapter 3: Karma Yoga – Transforming All Activities into Yoga - Verse 22
Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha
Krishna opens his heart and asserts unreservedly that he has nothing to discharge as a duty. Likewise he has nothing unaccomplished as well, which his heart yearns to gain. His heart is full. Yet he takes no rest or leisure. How well he built Dwaraka, the huge palace in the sea!
Though not a king of any land, he did not fail to reach wherever needed, facing all hazards and winning the cause of dharma. While yet a boy, he had to kill his wicked uncle Kamsa, not to speak of encountering Jarasandha eighteen times, and the formidable Narakasura to liberate 16000 princesses the demon emperor had held in captivity. All this, with nothing to gain!
He gave Duryodhana his powerful army; to Arjuna he gave himself, with a resolve not to fight. Humbly he became Arjuna’s charioteer, only to instruct him as the greatest Teacher! Did he not do everything to win the war?
