This is the 4th discourse delivered by Poojya Swamiji during the 2024 Guru Poornima Retreat. Discussing Karma Yoga of Bhagavad Gita, Swamiji emphasizes that activity is a demand and persuasion of nature. The three Gunas of nature propel the human to be active.
Competence is for Karma Nishta
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
Perform All activities as Yajna
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
Renunciation is of the Mind
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
Renunciation is of the Mind
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
He who delights in his own Self is above all needs and cravings. He has nothing to gain by doing or not doing anything. He...
Read MoreAll actions done by us will have to be as Yajña. How to do so? Do everything but without any delusional clinging (saṅga) to the inner psycho-intellectual outcome it brings about. Every act is done aiming to achieve a certain fruition. If such fruition is had or not, the performer’s mind should feel no delusional clinging to what transpires. It is clinging that hinders Yajña. Whatever act is done without clinging verily becomes sacrifice.
Read MoreGita does not deal with the objective results of actions at all, where the rules and laws of the objective world prevail. Krishna, as well as Vedanta, speaks only about spirituality, the science of inner mind, intelligence and Self. Possession, dispossession, delusion, clarity, enlightenment, etc. are concepts that relate to the inner personality of the human.
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