Chapter 3: Karma Yoga – Transforming All Activities into Yoga: Verse 34
इन्द्रियस्येन्द्रियस्यार्थे रागद्वेषौ व्यवस्थितौ ।
तयोर्न वशमागच्छेत्तौ ह्यस्य परिपन्थिनौ ।।
indriyasyendriyasyārthe rāga-dveṣau vyavasthitau
tayor-na vaśam-āgacchet-tau hy-asya paripanthinau – 3.34
For each sense organ, attraction and repulsion towards its objects are natural. Do not come under their sway. They are one’s stark enemies.
Chapter 3: Karma Yoga – Transforming All Activities into Yoga - Verse 34
Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha
In the light of what is stated earlier, does not self-effort have a place and purpose? The question is very relevant. Krishna answers it unambiguously.
Human life is noted for its creativity, based on knowledge, wish and will. The whole civilization humans have shaped solely rests on their wish and resolve. Man without will power is a big zero. Paurusha, ingenuity, alone makes him the crown of creation.
Krishna points that attraction and repulsion are seated in every sense organ. While objects are outside and distant, attraction and repulsion are inner and personal.
Do not be swayed by them. Mind has enough potential to deal with its own products, namely likes and dislikes. Understand this, and sublimate attraction and repulsion every time they crop up, knowing them to be stark enemies in your spiritual path. To sublimate them is the most important part of sadhana.
